gerbils

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It embarrasses me to admit that I sometimes confuse women with gerbils which is the reason [well, one of a great many of them] why I can't get a date.

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  • He fed part of the snake to the gerbils, a bit of poetic justice considering their rodent ancestry, tossed a few shards to the turtles and served a choice few inches to the spavined kitty/cat that had long since finished the last of the stinking cat food. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 02 - February 2001
  • In the wild gerbils are able to completely lose their tail if a predator catches them by it, gerbils can and have done such a trick in a domestic setting. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • A plastic tunnel / compartment complex is usually too small and narrow an environment for gerbils, the plastic also can be unsafe or make it easy for them to escape. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • Using a split-cage / split-tank method to introduce gerbils is the best tactic. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • In this way the gerbils are kept on separate sides of a tank split in half, then later the two are swapped over. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
 

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