Hi, I'm just about to give up!
After several months of fighting the mites, and thinking they are gone, only to have them pop up again a few weeks down the road. I've sprayed and cleaned and vacuumed and washed laundry like a maniac, getting all the cages every 6 days, but I'm wearing out (and the gerbils are starting to hate this spray stuff every few days). The mites are winning. There are always a couple left somewhere, to multiply again after a few weeks. Is there *anything* else I can do? My vet is no help, and says this kind of mite doesn't normally live on gerbils and I shouldn't worry. She claims the kinds of mites that infest gerbils are invisible, while these are small, but definitely visible. And they sure *do* infest our gerbils, if we don't intervene. I've read on a website that you can feed rats ivermectin (the stuff you can buy for horses, the amount the size of a rice grain for rats) to get rid of the mites. Has anyone ever heard of this and can give an opinion if this would be safe for gerbils? -- Best regards, Susanne mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
