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Section: Exercise and Play
Exercise and PlayGerbils are very active and love to play. They need plenty of entertainment and exercise to keep them healthy and alert. Every gerbil should have a metal exercise wheel to keep him mentally and physically fit. Gerbils have both day and night activity cycles, but tend to be most active at night, so it's a good idea to get a good quality exercise wheel that won't make a lot of noise.Wooden toys and clean, natural branches will help keep your gerbils' ever growing incisors short. A new toy every day is ideal. Cardboard boxes and paper towel rolls are excellent inexpensive toys, and make great hiding places. Gerbils also love to climb; platforms and branches in the cage make for great fun.Grooming and Medical ConcernsAs a result of desert living, gerbils have special cells that store water. Because of this, they produce very little urine; therefore, they are virtually odorless.
Gerbils are social and curious creatures by nature. If your pet gerbil were a member of your family, he would be your tag-along little brother: the one who’s always interested in what you are doing and...
Gerbils are excellent small pets for children because they are naturally curious and social animals and do not bite people unless scared or mishandled. Gerbils are clean and relatively odorless additions...
Gerbils love to burrow and, of course, to sleep. It’s up to you to provide them with the best materials, but the choices aren’t easy. Here’s what you need to know to create a fun and cozy environment for...
If any pet could play the part of the dormouse in Alice in Wonderland, it would be the fat-tailed gerbil or duprasi, a sleepy, chubby, distant relative of the more common Mongolian gerbil.
Relatively unknown in the pet world until the 1950s, the gerbil has become the first pet of choice in homes and school classrooms around the world.
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