On Thursday evening a woman at work who's daughter has
gerbils was having trouble with them. She had four
tanks stacked together on book shelves and was having
problems with a girl tank of 3 and a boy tank of 3.
The girls had started squabbling and the boys were
seriously fighting and one had been killed. (They did
not seperate any of them)
I said I'd take them home and nurse/split cage them.
By Friday afternoon when they brought them to me a
second boy was dead and the third pretty beaten up.
So now he's alone. The three girls are doing well and
getting along great.
Thank you for all the advice, everyone, on patching
these guys up!! They are all doing very well now.
The only injury I'm still worried about is that a
female is not putting much weight on her front paw and
the upper "arm" is swollen.
Any advice on what I should do for the lone boy? Can
I trust him with a new partner? I could put him with
a male pup or an older male. I'd wait a few weeks
until he's completely healed up.
Also, he nips (not hard, yet!) when I put neosporin on
him. And he nipped my daughter when she picked him
up.
Also, and ideas why this would have happened? They
thought that it might be having boys/girls in close
proximity (with mating interests), they'd been
thumping alot prior to this. They also said that they
accidently switched the ceramic bowls between these
two tanks -- could that get them going??
Thanks,
Donna
ABC Gerbils
www.abcgerbils.com
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