Pet stuff: dogs and a lost gerbil
There are portraits of the 3 remaining boy pups over at our Golden Retriever Pups blog. Girls will follow soon. Are they precious or what?
We took the 4 girl pups out to meet a prospective buyer today and learned that 75% of young pups get carsick if the ride lasts over 18 minutes.
We also learned that a disposable diaper makes a good carsick bib for a pup: just open the diaper and fasten one leg around the pup’s neck (as if the pup’s head were a leg facing into the diaper). Leave the other leg open, and let the diaper drape open under the pup’s chin to catch the vomit. This looks very effective and ensures that the pup will be the only one who doesn’t puke.
And hypothetically speaking, does anyone think I should be concerned if a probably-pregnant gerbil is loose in the house? I wasn’t too concerned about a single loose gerbil until I realized that her babies are ~1 month old. That means she could very well have a new litter in the next week or two.
On the bright side, they are cuter than mice and are technically domestic. If something small and rodential is going to peek out at me from under the oven, I’d much rather see a fat little gerbil nose than eeeeek!
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What a great tip; I just got a dog on Saturday. I sure wish I knew that then, as we had to clean up a real mess! Blessings to you!
I would worry about the gerbil, because when we were raising them it seemed that if any got loose, they became nasty and feral-acting after a day or two on their own- delivering some awful bites when finally caught. My advice- catch them while wearing kitchen mitts!
what do you do with all the gerbil babies? i would like to breed our hamster but don’t know what i would do with the offspring.
We were either feeding them to my mom’s fat snake or selling them to a local pet store for a dollar or two. But the snake ran - er, slithered away and sometimes the pet store has an abundance of gerbils. Then it becomes tricky.
Now I’m hoping our cat dispatches the gerbil while we’re gone, but he’s not a mighty hunter. He caught her once and she bit him. Now he stalks her but he’s so cautious I don’t think he’ll hold onto her.
Bah. He’s an 18lb. monster. One would expect better.