Re: good gerbil/bad gerbil thing

[Rena T. Brown]

This story had me rolling on the floor laughing (sorry :) ).  Your choice of words is hilarious.  I am sure the bite is painful, but if you jerk your hand out the cage it only encourages her to bite more.  I know this is hard to do.  And the whole my husband never wants to give up hope laughing hard* very cute.  Never give up hope, but some other suggestions of early taming ideas might be in order here.  There is some archive file you can find on one the web sites (can someone else help me out here).  You guys are very funny.  "Hope", LOL, all goes well for you both (the gerbs and the humans). Rena Shelley and Don wrote: Dear List Just needed to "share" with you all that Thumper -- my lovely little new "accidental" mommy gerbil... my little white darling that looks so sweet and innocent.... the little brat bit me AGAIN tonite after I got home from the dentist. %$$#@!  I don't know what is it with these gerbils but I will NOT be selling any of her 3 babies and we are putting a stop to anymore (but I'm sure she is pregnanat again right now, but I can't do anything about this). Her Mom is the one we returned to the pet store after giving her chance after chance after chance to "be nice". It really hurt my feelings mostly cuz I've been so nice to her and trying to gently pet her and let her know that I will not hurt her -- she was laying there all tired out from her pups and looking so sweet and I figured she didn't have it in her to jump up and bite my finger as I was only offering her a huge handful of sunflower seeds. She came a little close with her little face and I thought it was only to take a treat and then bam!!!! She bit me! And I screamed and jerked my hand from the cage -- poor Daddy Bambi was scrambling all over the place after I scared him from my screaming -- and when I drew my hand from her cage, she was still attached by her mouth to my finger. Whew! Once again, good thing I stocked up on bandaids. What is it with these gerbils do that? My husband thinks we should never give up "hope" that we can turn a "bad" gerbil into a "good gerbil" with enough love but.... I wonder. Anybody have any input in this good gerbil/bad gerbil thing? Shelley at TPCPandora & Blade (good guys)Gerbie (of the wild) and Jin (good gerbs)Thumper the evil and Bambi (a good guy)