Hmmm. Well, I didn't have time to think much about it, so I suggested she put extra food in the cage to make sure poor Anton got enough food, and we'd figure it out later.
The next day Leena had me hold Percy. He was definitely the heftiest gerbil I'd ever seen. But the Emperor and the younger boys were due back in two days. Clearly there was a problem, I just didn't have time to research it now. Besides, Percy and Anton both seemed pretty healthy otherwise.
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| First day |
And we now had five wiggly pink jelly beans in a corner of the cage.
And Percy turns out to be short for Persephone.
Sigh. I've been pregnant how many times and I didn't figure it out?!
This is our fifth pair of gerbils and the first error by the pet store.
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| 7 days |
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| 10 days |
They're so cute!
And we are handling them every day, so they are extremely tame and sweet.
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| 13 days |
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| 15 days |
Fortunately, the babies were all fine!
We figured out we have 3 girls and two boys.
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| 18 days |
And then yesterday the first one opened her eyes!
2 comments:
Pretty funny Windy! Same happened to us but with our Guinea Pigs. We thought we had 3 males...turns out one was not (I actually thought maybe our black one was homosexual hahaha...only I to think that). Well now we have 6 Guinea Pigs, and trying to rehome all of them because the place we have cages is too warm in summer and way too cold in winter (attic). Not an easy task
Too funny! Hope it's sunny where you are, Irene!
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