Rachel Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>Hello, I'm new to the list, my name is Rachel. I'll introduce myself, okay? :)
>I love animals and got my first gerbils at a petstore a year ago in april
>2000. They had two litters together. Now one of their daughters had her
>first and last litter. I have decided to stop breeding her because she is
>injurred. But I can't help it if she mated right after birth (i wasn't awake
>when they were born) Okay, they are three weeks old on Wednesday and
>all the pups are black, I think. See, that is my question. One might be
>slate, it's hard to tell. He has very light gray fur under his coat and it looks
>gray if you rub the fur the opposite way that it grows.
Slate gerbils have lighter coloured nails than blacks. - More brown than
black.
>Can slate gerbils
>have little white marks on their front paws and bib?
All self coloured gerbils can. So any black, slate, lilac, dove etc can
have these white marks.
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Julian
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National Gerbil Society
http://www.gerbils.co.uk/
