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Okay, update from Gerbie's
place.... the wilderness gerbil girl... (ha ha ha)
We got our breeding pair from
Idaho. I was at work when they came & my husband said they poor little guys
were real hot (actually sweating) when he opened the box. That concerned me, but
they seem fine now. (that was last week they arrived). We got a Siamese girl I
named Pandora and a little Chinchilla (grey agouti?) boy (I named "Blade"). They
are still a little skittish, but we plan on working with them very slowly so as
not to freak them out. Pandora looks like she could be Gerbie's sister, except
for Gerbie is like a shade darker.
A question my husband had was that
the other day we put them in our "playpen" to let them run as Pandora seems to
have a lot of extra energy and they appeared to be having fun running around and
Pandora was "teasing" Blade and making him chase her all over the place. Pandora
is very curious and my husband had just his hand in the playpen laying there
"flat" and she kept running over to his hand, sniffing him and then she pee peed
on his hand!!!! What's that about? Does anybody know? He thought that she didn't
like him and I thought maybe she was "marking" him... but I don't really know.
We haven't had gerbils that long or even enough of them to see that happen.
Also, when I put my hand in the playpen, she began coming over to my hand and
also pee peed in my hand!!!!!! Anyway, we are just curious as to what she
thought she was doing.
Thanks to you all for your help.
Shelley and Don
(Gerbie and Jin's
house)
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