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Post by mango on Jul 13, 2005 15:36:11 GMT -4
Well, in 2002 I bought a pair of Gerbils at PETCO. I was told that they were both Females, but I soon found out that the store was WRONG!    Ok, so Flame and Jelly were doing good for around a week. They did normal Gerbil things. I brought them with me to our summer home in Maine for 6 weeks. They ran on their wheels, they explored their CT3. One day, I woke up, and ran downstairs to play with them. I lifted up the igloo that they slept in, and to my surprise, Oela! two baby gerbils! I was very excited. I sexed the 2 gerbils 3 weeks later, and made a GIANT girl cage and a GIANT boy cage I found that they were boys, so I put them and the father in one cage. The mom was alone until she had another HUGE litter! 16 babies! I gues I sexed them wrong, too, because I ended up with more than 60 gerbils in a corse of 2 months. The only place that I knew of that took gerbils was PETCO, but I wasnt ggiving my gerbils to them after I had read so many PETA animal cruelty reports. They all died over a 2 year corse, and I've never gotten a gerbil since. The end. |
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Post by Hamsters82 on Jul 15, 2005 10:23:58 GMT -4
Wow. 16 babies is a lot! Pet stores do that all the time though. Once in awhile you'll find someone good. When Josh first brought home Rascal, he was cute, bit me-which it was my fault. And then something started to happen to Rascal, we called the pet store & they said to give him iceberg lettuce to cure his constepation. Well...guess what!? Rascal's name was soon turned to Harriet & she had seven. We gave away five to people we knew & kept two. The rest I think you all know.  But anyway, there are good pet store people. When we had Benny & Theo sexed, the guy knew straight away they were both female. And he was right. |
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Post by mango on Jul 15, 2005 13:32:34 GMT -4
You mean 60 babies! I had 60gerbils, and no body to take them!
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Post by Hamsters82 on Jul 15, 2005 14:08:16 GMT -4
Oh. 60... My mistake. Poor you. |
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Post by mango on Jul 16, 2005 9:44:49 GMT -4
all the babies bred and mean while I was like OMG WHAT SHOULD I DO??!!!?!!?!??!?!?! literally tugging at my hair lol
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Jul 17, 2005 20:38:22 GMT -4
>> I gues I sexed them wrong, too, because I ended up with more than 60 gerbils in a corse of 2 months.<<
Is this a put-on thread? It is impossible to incorrectly sex gerbils as they males have obvious testicles, even if you can't determine the sex by the anal-urethra distance method. Even looking at them from the top I can see bulges at the base of the tail on males. In warm weather it becomes more obvious. If you don't know what you are doing put some in a critter carrier and take them to a vet or a pet store manager for sexing.
>> all the babies bred and mean while I was like OMG WHAT SHOULD I DO??!!!?!!?!??!?!?! literally tugging at my hair lol <<
Obviously, by the "lol" at the end of that statement you are in fact joking around.
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Jul 17, 2005 20:39:11 GMT -4
Oh. 60... My mistake. Poor you. No, poor gerbils. But I believe this thread is a put-on. |
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Post by mango on Jul 18, 2005 13:08:10 GMT -4
It was definitly NOT a put on!! I put in lol because now it seems funny. and yes 8 year olds are not always good at sexing gerbils.... XD And I used to think that the testicles were BUTTS. Wheich I found out last year that they werent.
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Post by silence on Jul 22, 2005 9:29:07 GMT -4
I'd agree with DF on this one, especially since the largest recorded gerbil litter is 14, in the 80's. So either you made up a story, or are exaggerating, or you need to go call the world record company.
And it is impossible to end up with 60 gerbils in 2 months, because the pups born from the first litter would first need to sexually mature, and then need 27 ish days for gestation.
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Post by mango on Jul 22, 2005 18:59:10 GMT -4
It's true. And it's not definitly 16. ARound that. More than 12. And yes it is possible.
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Post by silence on Jul 27, 2005 7:44:03 GMT -4
How exactly?
Lets say half the '12' babies are female, which is usually the case in typical even sexed gerbil litters, and these 6 females get pregant, along with their mum.
7 pregnant gerbils.
To get pregnant they must first be at least 8 weeks old.
So 8 weeks old and they get pregnant.
Gestation period averages at 24-27 days.
so thats 70 days old already.
Not quite 2 months and not enough pups to add up to 60.
And it is quite rare for females to give birth in the 8-9 week period.
As for keeping them in a CT3, thats just cruel. They are too small for anything larger than a dwarf hamster and I still think I'd be hard pressed to force a dwarf to live in one.
I do hope you are fibbing.
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Post by mango on Jul 28, 2005 15:31:46 GMT -4
I said I made giant bincages. If you dont believe me I dont care because I know the truth.
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Post by silence on Aug 1, 2005 17:36:57 GMT -4
They ran on their wheels, they explored their CT3. You also said that ^ |
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Post by mango on Aug 5, 2005 16:19:44 GMT -4
yes. there were 2 gerbils in that.
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Post by silence on Aug 9, 2005 13:34:18 GMT -4
which makes my point keeping gerbils in a crittertrail 3 is still cruel.
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