Susanne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >Hi, > >we lost our 2 year old Hazel (a burmese), today :( > >She was fine this afternoon at feeding time, eagerly coming >out to eat, perfectly normal. >No sign of any trouble, and she wasn't sick once in her >life. > >We found her dead a few hours later. > >There was no fight and her companion, Himbeere (2 1/2) seems >fine. > >What could have happened? >Heart attack? Stroke? > >Isn't 2 a little young for something like that? >
Sorry to hear about your loos, but strokes can happen at any age because gerbils have an unusual structure to the blood vessels that supply the brain. We have had gerbils have a stroke at six weeks, and have mothers that had strokes whilst nursing their first litters at four months. -- Julian [EMAIL PROTECTED] National Gerbil Society http://www.gerbils.co.uk/
