Sunday, April 26, 2009

Gerbil Tragedy

Yesterday I walked into the animal room only to find Bamboo, one of my favorite females, dying of horrible seizures. As if that wasn't bad enough, she left behind six 20 day old pups, five of her own, and one foster, Amazing. The pups eyes are open, and they had started experimenting with solid food, so I have hopes that they will be able to make it with some TLC. It has been over 24 hours now and they still fat and energetic. I have seen them all eating some food and one drinking out of the water bottle, and they are all getting kitten formula, so I'm just crossing my fingers and hoping for the best right now. Below are some cute pictures of Amazing and his brothers (I think all six are boys). There are two nutmegs, one dark eyed honey, one agouti, and one spotted black. Amazing is an argente, and his hair is actually starting to grow in, but as you can see, there's still a lot of skin showing.

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