Very common, and one of the reasons black gerbils are so cute! :)
Blue wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> This is merely out of curiousity. I have a sweet
> little male gerbil (even if he *is* a little nippy).
> He's black and from a New York breeder. Zerwin has a
> stripe of white down his chin and throat and little
> white splotches/dots on his front paws. :)
>
> I notice others have mentioned a stripe and spots on
> the paws also. Is this a common marking? It's the
> marked paws that has me curious.
>
> Cheers,
> Christina
>
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