Meet Zip & Rar - two new Gerbils.

[mattx]

Lordy that is quite a evil shot of Zip !!

He is terrible sometimes, quite a bully to Rar - they had a big bust up the other day - Zip spent two days on the top level without coming down - in the end I had to play peace negotiator and get them together again.

[john]

Lordy that is quite a evil shot of Zip !!

He is terrible sometimes, quite a bully to Rar - they had a big bust up the other day - Zip spent two days on the top level without coming down - in the end I had to play peace negotiator and get them together again.

 

Just like Winrar and Winzip then on a PC when they both want to be king of compressed files

[computer_expert]

I think Zip seems a bit lively tonight:

[Little-Miss]

lol that middle one is cute...

 

"ever get the feeling you're being watched..."

[mattx]

I think Zip seems a bit lively tonight:

 

Heh, out of the two he rules the cage !! He was trying to attack the camera the other evening.

[mattx]

Just snapped this pic of Rar:

 

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/4835644634_41902bf323.jpg

[mattx]

Zip going nuts biting his cage..... Excuse the low light, could not be bothered to turn the light on....

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk5762b7T5I

[maniac]

I used to keep gerbils when I was younger, we had loads of them at different times - probably to do with the fact my dad worked in a school and the science department used to keep some, of course they bred very quickly and the school had too many.

 

We used to keep them in an old fish tank half filled with garden centre compost mixed with woodshavings, they loved it and would dig burrows round the tank. Makes a right old mess, but it's quite cool to see tunnels all round the edge of the glass and where they begin and end on the surface. Sometimes the silly things would undermine the whole tank, and it would all cave in on them - they always dug themselves out OK thou. Used to sit and watch them for hours and get them out for a run round the front room every now and then - this was ok until one of them chewed through a speaker cable, we were more cautious after that!

 

Mike.

Edited July 28, 2010 by maniac