Lian Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
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>Hi,
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>About the "raging gerbils" =), I have one gerbil who has gotten very
>excited like that a few times. Usually it is when I have let her run around
>my apartment for a while and then put her back-- she really wants to get
>out again. However, I have noticed too that on occasion she does this for
>no apparent reason. Like Beki found, my gerbil kept jumping up at the lid
>(almost 2 feet!) relentlessly. I find that the only way to calm them down is
>to offer lots of things to chew- preferably toilet paper tubes. If they can be
>distracted for long enough, they might forget about the jumping etc. This
>almost always works for me.
>Lian
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As others have said, it could just be chance. It could also be that the
you have a new spotting mutation, although the chances of that are far
smaller.
Have you had any eye or ear problems resulting from this breeding for
spots? In the UK people who have repeated bred for increased spotting
have often found circling behaviour, a sign of deformed inner ears, or
malformed eyes.
--
Julian
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
National Gerbil Society
http://www.gerbils.co.uk/
