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Post by Andrea on Dec 18, 2006 14:56:28 GMT -4
Well last night we made some progress! Magic was taking sunflower seeds from my flat hand and actually sat on it and ate one! YEAY! I can see he really wants to know me, but he's just so affraid So afraid he dosn't even thump, he just plays dead, i could pet him and he wouldn't run away he just freezes I've never had a gerbil like this. Another good note, the little agouti male i rescued and adopted a bit ago also has progressed, he was the biggest fraidy cat and now i can pick him up (His name is Ranger). It was a good night!
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Post by Andrea on Dec 15, 2006 1:44:27 GMT -4
I was thinking a new name may be what he needs for his new life. Though I have been calling him Magic.
He's super scared, though i've been hand feeding him sunflower seeds and talking quietly to him. I gave him some hay and he was so excited, he was putting it all in his mouth then trying to run in his wheel LOL. I also gave him a poptart box to play in and some kleenex to build a nest. I covered half his cage with a towel too. He's in my livingroom.
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Post by Andrea on Dec 14, 2006 21:21:06 GMT -4
I picked up Magic, he is from a girl i know who likes to get pets then give/sell them after she gets bord of them. He was posted on Craigslist. Poor little guy was being terrorized by their new cat (The replacment) and then her two small children. Anyways, here are a couple pictures of the cutie, he's pretty shy but who wouldn't be after what he's been through. I'm thinking of split caging him with a loner male i have, hopefully it will work out and they won't have to live alone anymore. I'm kind of mad, even though i do not consider this girl a friend, I feel somewhat responcible for her even getting this little guy, i think if I had never had her over that one time, she would have never even considered a gerbil as a pet. It makes me mad that even with all the information she left my home with she still did everything wrong when she got this little guy... and now he's here with me. What's one more eh? So i'm thinking of re-naming him Blazer the second, after my beloved Blazer who I lost last Jan. who was also a mottled black. What do ya think?
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Post by Andrea on Nov 28, 2006 17:16:24 GMT -4
Ya I tried a mesh, the screen door stuff and my gerbils chewed a hole right through it.
I love inexpencive ideas! i'm actually writting an article for our newsletter (for SARS BC) on how to get inexpencive toys and stuff for your critters.
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Post by Andrea on Nov 5, 2006 20:32:45 GMT -4
My DEH (Malibu) and her sister Solara (Pied Nutty) are going to be one next week (I think friday). They've always been my babies, Malibu is a very special gerbil to me b/c I waited a year for her to be born, and she was the only DEH to be born too, all her siblings were nutties. DEH is one of my favorite colours.
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Post by Andrea on Nov 5, 2006 14:06:37 GMT -4
How did you end up with such a variety?? I have about as many but not half as diverse! My Good Friend is an acceptional breeder, so any of my real fancy colours came from her. I also adopted my first CP & Burmese out of washington before i started my rescue work. Those two girl will be three in March. I've had other nice colours to, but they have all since passed on. If all mine were just rescues they would be Agouti, Black & Lilac, that is what comes in allot here.
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Post by Andrea on Nov 4, 2006 16:21:51 GMT -4
YEAY! So I had 5 loner gerbils, and now i'm down to 3 Dakota and "Ranger" the agouti pup have been together for 2 weeks now, and as of last night Jimmy has a new Argente buddy named Marquis. So I have one more batchlor to pair up with a pup But I think I will wait and see if there ends up being any young males come into rescue, or if my friend Sandy just happends to have a spotted siamese or spotted burmese male in need of a home.... LOL So my list now is.... CP Agouti Burmese Spotted Argente Pied Agouties (3) Agouti REW Honey Cream Pied Nutmeg DEH Black Pied Black Schimmel Nutmeg Siamese = 16 In Foster; Black (3) Lilac (2) Agouti (1) = 6 Grand Total = 22hhmmm i thought i counted 21 downstairs LOL... I do recall saying I was bringing my numbers down naturally.... hhmmm ya i'm a sucker. So what's everyone else at?
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Post by Andrea on Nov 2, 2006 14:57:20 GMT -4
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAPRI!Today is Capri's first birthday! The day she came home - I was given Capri after her tail was eaten my a kitty cat, no one wants to buy a half tailed gerbil so she came home with me. Capri came to me with Malibu, they lived together for some time but once split caged with Maserati it was love at first site. Maserati and little Capri were best of friends untill Maseratis untimely death in March of this year. I felt so bad that little Capri was living alone, so I adopted one of my (inbred) foster pups, a lilac I named Sonada. Capri was a little devil in the split cage, but so was Sonada, Capri is missing at least 3 toes now from the pup. Unfortunetly Sonada had some real problems and died just months after they were introduced. It seems Capris luck wasn't so good, and I was even worried to put her with another gerbil as two had just up and died allready, I wasn't willing to loose another. But I gave in, and split caged her with Alero my single black pup who was allready a year at that time. Again it was a nasty split cgae, Capri bit off half of Aleros tail... but soon after that they were best of friends, and well still are today, they are my "Ying & Yang" with those matching tails... Happy Birthday to Capri, my first and only solid nutmeg! Let's see many more to come!
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Post by Andrea on Oct 16, 2006 22:16:32 GMT -4
The hamster cage one i have to say is the most dangerous, i have had 2 gerbils loose tails in that divider. So I try not to use it first off. Well if u lived closer i could rent you my hunny and his welder LOL... I've been meaning to learn to weld for quite some time now, but haven't gotten around to it, One of these days. I would love to learn to weld aluminum, that would be so cool, i'd make all sorts of fun artsy fartsy stuff ;D
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Post by Andrea on Oct 16, 2006 15:38:26 GMT -4
Consider them crossed. How did you make your split screens? Thanks As for the splits. Well I'm borrowing a hamster cage my friend has made into a split. My two large taks that are split i've had my hunny weld dividers together for me, both removable. I also use a 20G tall (or a bin cage) with a hamster cage top in it, these are the easiest b/c there no real building involved. This is my 50G split. Right now it's not split b/c I house the female Degus in it. This is a 20G with a hamster cage in it. And this is my 45G split. Being able to weld things together is so much easier then useing wood or glue or twist ties LOL... edited as you put the last image link in quote brackets! - DF.
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Post by Andrea on Oct 16, 2006 2:41:36 GMT -4
Well we started with hand taming tonight, and it's much slower then with any other young gerbils I've worked with, these guys are very skittish. The Lilac is SO curious! she's always first for everything, I think I'm going to name her Lilly and then name the rest all after flowers also. The Agouti female is next in being curious, but nothing close to outgoing like little "Lilly". I have a 10g tank that's goign to be available, but i have to bond a pair of boys and then i may split cage this young agouti with Dakota one of my loner pied agouti males. My new split cage with Jimmy & Peej is going over pretty good so far, so pelase keep your fingers crossed for me!
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Post by Andrea on Oct 15, 2006 14:25:57 GMT -4
They are all snuggled up and sleeping in a pop tart box too cute. I'm ticked off though the owner first said she was given two females then surprise babies.... well after she changes her story a bit... she burried the first litter in the back yard, and since then she has been giving them to her friend to feed his snake. When asked if we can take the mother & three week litter she said no b/c the mother is her daughters pet, but she will call in 2 weeks when the pups are ready to be weaned. She may keep a couple of these pups as the mother "isn't looking so good". ARGH, know one would look so good if she's poping out babies over and over again with no break inbetween. The woman will not remove the male.... I love my pets, not so much people.
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Post by Andrea on Oct 15, 2006 0:50:43 GMT -4
Well tonight I picked up 5 seven week old gerbils, known by their previous owner as snake food We have 4 girls and 1 boy So i'm going to have to figure something out to get him a buddy within the next few days. There are 2 agoutis (1 is the boy), 2 blacks and a Lilac who's the runt. We've had a few calls for gerbils lately so i'm hoping these little one will be adopted sooner then later. It's nice to have babies back in my home, it's been a while. I may end up keeping the boy and split caging him with one of my loner boys, this way both have a buddy, but we'll see how thigns work out. I'll try and get pictures soon.
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Post by Andrea on Oct 13, 2006 3:44:19 GMT -4
Well when that cast get's itchy at least he'll have someone who can scratch it for him
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Post by Andrea on Oct 12, 2006 13:45:40 GMT -4
LOL.... that's funny.
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