Post by Die Fledermaus on Aug 8, 2009 21:05:10 GMT -4
I went to take some photos for the gerbil contest that is posted in a separate thread. I found Stella dead in her wooden house. 
kanez.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Gerb&action=display&thread=2683
That thread takes you to photos of her and her agouti sister, Frances, when I first got them last December. Please show Stella the respect of clicking on it.
Just over seven months.
But Frances is fine.
When this sort of thing happens I do get mad and sad. And then I wonder: Did I feed them enough? Did I give them fresh enough water? Should I have played with them more? Etc. We always wonder. But Frances is fine.
I guess it just happens.
I can understand why some people, such as Katie, would rather not get emotionally committed to an animal with a short life, a tenuously short life. My point to her, and others, is that if one or others are found to need rescue or help would they in fact be helped regardless of their short lives and that situation? I certainly would, and I think Katie said she would too, even if it meant taking them home.
Well, split screening for gerbils is very hard. I would have to take the ten gallon tank and cut it in half for over two weeks, spending much time switching gerbils from side to side. I have tried that, and it usually does not work, and then I have two gerbils living alone. Threesomes are a bad idea. Plus, I have no single females here.
In one case I did two successful intros for a rescue, Hermione, and both died of natural causes with two months of meeting Hermione.She later did have success with a long term friend. Find her in the Memorial Photo Gallery in my sig.
As soon as I feel up to it and the weather is OK (as it was today) I will have a burial for her, and others.
RIP
Stella and Frances were aunts of mine.
kanez.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Gerb&action=display&thread=2683
That thread takes you to photos of her and her agouti sister, Frances, when I first got them last December. Please show Stella the respect of clicking on it.
Just over seven months.
But Frances is fine.When this sort of thing happens I do get mad and sad. And then I wonder: Did I feed them enough? Did I give them fresh enough water? Should I have played with them more? Etc. We always wonder. But Frances is fine.
I guess it just happens.I can understand why some people, such as Katie, would rather not get emotionally committed to an animal with a short life, a tenuously short life. My point to her, and others, is that if one or others are found to need rescue or help would they in fact be helped regardless of their short lives and that situation? I certainly would, and I think Katie said she would too, even if it meant taking them home.
Well, split screening for gerbils is very hard. I would have to take the ten gallon tank and cut it in half for over two weeks, spending much time switching gerbils from side to side. I have tried that, and it usually does not work, and then I have two gerbils living alone. Threesomes are a bad idea. Plus, I have no single females here.
In one case I did two successful intros for a rescue, Hermione, and both died of natural causes with two months of meeting Hermione.She later did have success with a long term friend. Find her in the Memorial Photo Gallery in my sig.
As soon as I feel up to it and the weather is OK (as it was today) I will have a burial for her, and others.
RIP
Stella and Frances were aunts of mine.
