Les gerbilles sont arrivées!

[bugshaw]

I'm looking after the gerbils Midnight and Moonbeam for K this half-term week; they have just arrived, and look so tiny in comparison to Heidi Hulk Hamster. Midnight is black, with a streak of white under his chin like a tiny anti-beard; Moonbeam is a speckly grey-brown. If I had done sufficient wrangling of Flickr or LJ-scrapbook, I could show you photos.

They have recovered from their arduous 10-minute car journey, and begun the usual Gerb-Jitsu fighting over the water bottle. "I want a drink!" "Sod off, I was here first!" "Hey - if I put my paw on your nose, I can shove you out of the way!" "You rotter! Two can play at that game!" And indeed they do.

As M&M are here on holiday, I want to make them little gerbil deckchairs, with little gerbil towels to lay over them ;-) For the time being, they have to make do with the cardboard tube out of a kitchen roll - and jolly good fun it is, too. EDIT (12:24): There is no more tube.

[I know, I do have live_gerbil for this sort of thing, but I have long forgotten the password]

Comments

[pigeonhed.livejournal.com]

The gerbils always get their towels on the deck chair first!

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Assuming you can remember the e-mail address, you can get them to send you your password.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I think I have a photo somewhere of gerbils breastfeeding ;-)

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Showing nipple and areola? :-)

[watervole.livejournal.com]

But most of us wouldn't see it on live gerbil.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

You know perfectly well that little gerbil deckchairs & towels, unless made of titanium, would last about 10 minutes. :-)