On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 22:03:19 -0400, you wrote: >Until recently I had what seemed to be a fairly well bonded clan of girls--three >sisters (nearly identical agoutis) who had been together since birth. They slept >together, ran in the wheel together, everything seemed fine. We returned from the >movies one night to discover two gerbils and the remains of a third. We >decided to clean the cage and then put the two remaining girls back together. They >bulit a nest and went to sleep and in fact were fine until the next time I >changed the bedding in the tank. Shortly after returning them to the clean tank, the >fatter sister started chasing the smaller sister around and seemed to be trying >to bite her. We divided the cage and have left them in split cage for almost a week >now, switching sides every night. Is there any hope for these girls? Are they >doomed to a separate existence for the remainder of their lives? They aren't quite a >year old yet. > >Diana
Hi Diana; I feel real about about the fighting gerbils as how the three females were part of my clan at one time. My three remaining females are getting along fine. I am wondering if the fatter one, might not be the mother of the clan now, which would make her 2 . I thought I kept her, but all the agoutis look the same to me.
