Odd title for a post, isn’t it? I feel though, that a lot of the time, when myself and other gerbil owners warn people of buying from petshops, we do forget one vital part in it – the borderline mental retardation your gerbils may have.
The gerbil above is Lol, some of you will recognise her from my ‘My gerbils’ page. Her sister is Bonnie, and quite frankly they are a lovely pair, very friendly and happy. Except that they are both originally commercially bred animals, and it seems that Bonnie has a problem.
If she is on heat, or not kept busy by playtime out of the tank, or chewing up cardboard or burrowing, she will attack her sister.
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