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andreaS15
04-21-06, 12:01 PM 04-21-06
I live in a two story home.
Downstairs I have my "rodent room" -
http://gallery.hot4x4.ca/albums/album233/aex.sized.jpg

I was upstairs last night watching a movie, playing with 2 of my gerbils Chevy & Jimmy (who I am trying to intro) while the bunnies ran around on the floor. Every once and a while the buns would come up to see what i was doing, pull on my pant legs and such. My dog was on the otherside of the 'gate' i have to keep her away from the bunnies while they are out.
All of a sudden i feel someone or something run over my foot! ???
The bunnies are relaxing in the middle of the room, I have both boy gerbils with me on my lap, and the dog is still sitting by the gate.
So i look down and find Audi my pied black girl running across my living room floor.
I was so confused.
Where did she come from?
I quicky put the boys into their split tank, look over the at dog who's still sitting and watching, and the bunnies who are still relaxing.

When i put my hands out of the floor and ask Audi "how did you get here?" she hops up into my hand.
I take her downstairs and find she has pushed a block of wood that was covering a hole in the lid of her tank (it's a fish tank lid, i'm kinda outta lids). she climbed all the way down off the big shelf (see picture), and decided to come UP the stairs, past the dog, around the bunnies to viset me.
She could have gone ANYWHERE in my unfinished basement, but she chose up the stairs to where i was.

Audi, you are a silly, but wonderful girl!
http://gallery.hot4x4.ca/albums/album245/aau.sized.jpg

daddysgurl9245
04-21-06, 12:25 PM 04-21-06
Awwww! She's so cute! How funny! Both you and her are lucky that she didn't go anywhere else! What a smart gerbil!

JennyH
04-21-06, 01:43 PM 04-21-06
Haha.. that's so sweet! She obviously thought she was missing out on something :)

animalmagic
05-03-06, 02:06 AM 05-03-06
That's so cute- she obviously missed you! :D

Lucky the dog didn't get her! :eek:

andreaS15
05-03-06, 11:47 AM 05-03-06
That's so cute- she obviously missed you! :D

Lucky the dog didn't get her! :eek:
I'm very lucky to have a dog who LOVES her gerbils & other pets. If you see most of my gerbil photos, you will see the dog somewhere in the background. She has to check on them after her last pee in the evening, to make sure they are all there LOL...

gerbillover
05-03-06, 12:37 PM 05-03-06
I'm very lucky to have a dog who LOVES her gerbils & other pets. If you see most of my gerbil photos, you will see the dog somewhere in the background. She has to check on them after her last pee in the evening, to make sure they are all there LOL...

Aw, how sweet!
I wish my dog was like that, but all she wants to do is kill them. She got a hold and killed a gerbil 5 months ago - I still beat myself up over it, I don't even know how she got a gerbil cage off the shelf, but she did... and after that we changed the set up to get all gerbils out of her reach, and she is no longer allowed in my room.
But she was a stray before we got her, so she probably lived off of small rodents.....