Welcome! Renee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Capuder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 8:34 AM Subject: Hello fellow gerbilenthusiasts!
> Hello, > > I am Larry Capuder, Sr. My family belongs to the American Gerbil Society - I > am not sure how much overlap there exists between that list and this one. > > Our kennel is named GerbilStrong, because we are in Strongsville, OH - a > southwest suburb of Cleveland. We have 16 breeding pairs, with 29 pups > currently, and many more in the pipeline - all but two of the pairs has > mated. We bought out a kennel from Cincinnati that was going out of > business, so we also have 17 in non-mating pairs that we want to sell cheaply > to good homes so as to clear the tanks to make room for a few more breeding > pairs. > > The formation of our kennel happened very quickly. We bought our sons a > mating pair for Christmas - a Nutmeg female that they named Brownie and a > Sapphire male that they named George. They have had two litters with 7 slate > babies and one runt that only lived two days. > > At this point, I became extremely interested in gerbil genetics - the WWW > proved to be a great place to learn about it. I am not an expert - an expert > is someone who does not belong to your organization and lives more that fifty > miles away. [I learned that one when I was an information systems > consultant.] I offered to give a talk on gerbil genetics to my sons' classes > - third and sixth grades - their teachers said "Yes" and both the classes and > I had fun. > > I have ten of the 16 basic colors, plus four varieties of Colorpoint, > including Burmese and Siamese. I believe that my breeding program will > produce the other six basic colors and some more Colorpoint varieties. I > would also like to breed Schimmel's. > > I just love sitting in my gerbil room and watching all the gerbils at play, > at work, at sleep, nursing [its hilarious when an older larger litter feeds - > poor mother!], grooming each other, etc. > > I look forward to learning about some of y'all's interest in gerbils. [I can > use y'all because my mother had deep roots in Louisiana.] > > Have a great day and I look forward to being part this group, > Larry C. >
