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Post by rasputin on Jan 28, 2004 0:10:51 GMT -4
When I find my #$%@ camera!
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Jan 28, 2004 0:17:55 GMT -4
My camera is one of the few things I can instantly find around here! But some of the lenses for my SLRs have gone underground and temporarily vanished. Along with a lot of other things, such as my pocket knife and wire cutters, they are inside some old piles of bedding!
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Post by rasputin on Jan 28, 2004 0:31:12 GMT -4
Thankfully, old bedding doesn't linger at my place. Once the tanks are cleaned, I huff the bags of old litter down to the dumpster and they are done with.
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Jan 28, 2004 0:46:48 GMT -4
My bags don't go anywhere. . . until they are filled.
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Post by jeannie on Jan 28, 2004 10:40:16 GMT -4
Bacchus is a spotted agouti, but he is not with me. He and his brother Dionysus are with a friend of mine. And their other 2 siblings, Saturn and Samhein, are with another friend of mine (who also incidentally works with me and Calvinator - yes, I am the rodent pusher at the firm...)
The sad news is that Pan's wife Phoebe, the gerbil artist whose artwork I posted before, passed away a few weeks ago, from kidney failure. She also lived with the friend who has Bacchus and Dionysus, and was related to my gerbil Prancelot who also died of kidney failure a few months ago. Hopefully the boys will take after their father, Pan, who is very healthy and doesn't seem to have any kidney problems.
I did not breed them - this all happened at the store. Pan impregnated Phoebe before I took him home, and I was worried about his children, so I found them homes.
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Jan 28, 2004 22:17:45 GMT -4
That was very nice of you, of course. Didn't think to keep them all? I am up to my eyes in rodents - but have a big room just for them, of course. I cleaned sixty gallons worth of tanks last night, and I am now behind in everything including e-mails, et al. Whew. The last several days saw me clean everything. I slept soundly. "Rodent-pusher". Good one. I once saw at Coney Island years ago an exhibit: "Largest rat in the world!! Bigger than most dogs!!". I paid my buck - and beheld a docile capybara. ;D The laugh was worth the buck.
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Post by jeannie on Jan 29, 2004 10:39:28 GMT -4
I couldn't keep them all - didn't have enough space. This way I get to hear updates on all of them. Saturn and Samhein were recently in an apartment building fire, but are okay. I hope you had a fun tank-cleaning experience
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Jan 30, 2004 0:38:26 GMT -4
I couldn't keep them all - didn't have enough space. This way I get to hear updates on all of them. Saturn and Samhein were recently in an apartment building fire, but are okay. I hope you had a fun tank-cleaning experience Ugh. It really is tiring bending and kneeling and spraying and wiping and spreading the new bedding and cutting the cardboard for the gerbs' tanks, et al. etc. Plus, while I do that I have to keep them all secure in holding bins, which the gerbs might start gnawing up, there being some plastic stuff in there for the hams. I had a choice: do one a day and never have a day off since as soon as I finish the cycle a new one will start; or, do the whole shebang in three or four days. I chose the former; at least now I have some time off to celebrate Groundhog Day (yes, I will start a thread on that ;D ). I was once standing in the gym shower. . . and spotted two big hammie poops go down the drain! God knows where they came from. That struck me as funny somehow. They are ubiquitous! Fires. Yikes. Glad Saturn and Samhein are fine. If we had a fire here I guess I'd grab a laundry sack and toss 26 critters in there. That is one sack I would not want to be in. I was ten once and sound asleep; my wacky mother burst in the room and started screaming at me "FIRE!! FIRE!!". I flew off the bed and nearly jumped out the window. It was in reality only a very minor smoldering fire on the roof door.
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Post by bigfatmommarat on Feb 16, 2004 0:18:13 GMT -4
My Jerry Springier Gerbil Show -------------------------------------- It started over 3 years ago when I got my daughter a pair of gerbils, Gore and Lieberman. About a year and a half ago Gore died and Lieberman was depressed for months. Then I got a (free) gerbil that was a PetCo return, and we named her Hadassa. She is a PEW and a looker, my gal Hadassa. So Lieberman was happy once again. Litter 1 was one pup. Now we had 2 males and a female no cagebuddy for everyone yet, so Lieberman, Hadassa and Matthew remained a happy family. Several months later there were 4 more, all males, and Matthew was a great big brother to all. I still had no females to separate, and at this rate the gain rate is slow. Well, Lieberman went to the Rainbow Bridge 4 months ago, so with understanding that gerbils are monogamous (I was wrong on that one) for life I figured Hadassa will live her life out with her now grown sons. My 15 year old daughter announced 3 months ago that there is no truth to the monogamous theory. It seems Hadassa now has a "special relationship" with one of her sons and then another and another... My 15 year old is now moderator all the "adult activity" in the gerbil tank. Perhaps this "adult activity" will produce my needed much females! I made a decision here and I left them together BECAUSE they are HAPPY. If I get a litter with both girls and boys I will move all the girls to their own tank. It seems pointless to introduce a new female to her now if she is already here or on the way. I also only take animals I am moved by or compelled to take and I haven't seen another female gerbil stand out from the crowd or beg to be mine. I am not concerned about first generation inbreeding as they are only going down 1 generation and I am keeping them all (unless someone really wants a couple of strapping young men that is). Hadassa may be about at the end of her breading years as I have had her over a year and she was a full grown adult when I got her. I don't think she is too old to raise her pups either as she has 5 very willing daddies helping her every step of the way.
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Feb 16, 2004 0:33:30 GMT -4
That's funny: Gore, Lieberman, and Hadassa. What happened to Tipper?
I saw your web site photos with that huge habitat. You have room for more gerbils, I assume. I had thought of breeding one of my two lovely females (Crystal and Chrissie), but since I do not have the room, and since I would have to separate them forever, I never did and never will.
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Post by bigfatmommarat on Feb 16, 2004 12:44:02 GMT -4
The huge habatat is a rat habitat, and would not contain gerbs... There was no Tipper basically because Gore died first and it was Lieberman that needed a cagemate.
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