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Monday, 26 March 2012

gerbil madness

ok still no photo's. not just the backup driver so need to take a look at it.

yesterday we had a nice day, having brunch and touring the antiques shops and garden centre.
when we came home there was some planting up to do and also we had to clean out the gerbil

it is always a challenge as gerbils are both quick and messy.

now our Tiffany (yes the gerbil is called Tiffany) is not tame.

she is a wild beast, a small white beast, If you put anything near her she will bite it, this can be a nut, seed or finger, she does not mind. so in order to clean her out you have to wait until she is asleep. lift off the lid and as soon as she pops her head out pop her exersize ball and get the lid on.

simple.

no not simple, yesterday she developed the vertical leap.

I took the lid off.

She sprang out.

we then chased her around for 5 minutes. LSP quickly got the dogs out of the room, oh yes they would given 1/2 the chance.

eventually I managed to drop the ball on her, lsp held the ball in place while I quickly cleaned out the cage.

when it was time to put her back. I panicked.

Tiffany ended up in the cage with her ball. we then had 10 minutes of me trying to get the ball out.

so we have ordered a new cage, one with lots of rooms so we can separate them off. and avoid the jumping gerbils.

(oh yes my friend finally gave birth to her baby at 3.45 on Sunday morning. a 9lb3 oz baby boy)
(my other friend went into labour 2 weeks early and had an 8lb 4 oz baby boy this morning.)
(I have one more friend with a couple of weeks to go)

lots of baby's around.
hope you had a happy weekend,
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Marina said...

Oh Saphy i've just been in fits of giggles reading your post!! I could really picture it as well! It is exactly the sort of thing we had to deal with, with Mia's sadly now deceased, Hamster Winston! When we brought him home from the pet shop hubby & me seriously wondered what an earth we had let ourselves in for..he made this horrible screeching sound and bared his teeth the whole way home in the car (a whole hour - thank god we had him in a plastic pod carrier and not just a flimsy cardboard thing!) Even hubby was petrified of the "rabid" hamster, and we were petrified of putting him in to his cage once at home. It took us a whole 30 minutes trying to work out a way of doing it without touching him, which in the end resulted in me tipping him slowly out of his pod, and hubby slamming down the roof of the cage while i quickly removed the pod and hoping to god we were quicker than the hamster. We thought poor Winston would get tamer but he never did, and cleaning him out was a nightmare - just like your Tiffany! :) Sadly last summer he got ill, we took him to the vet - who was also too scared to touch him! So couldn't really do anything for him. Mia was very, very upset and begged for another, but i still cannot quite bring myself to get one! xx

27 March 2012 at 00:06

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