We have some very exciting news. We now have a new addition to our family. Actually two new additions. We are now a family with pets . . . gerbils that is.
I promised my kiddos a long time ago that when they turned 8 they could have a small pet. I was trying to make turning 8 something special and memorable.
Well our oldest turning 8 happened way too fast and before I knew it I had a promise to fulfill. Unfortunately (or fortunately for the parents) said oldest child made a few bad choices that put him on pet probation.
Pet probation finally ended during spring break and we now have one very excited boy.
Chad actually had been dreaming about getting mice (a much better choice after already talking him out of a snake, frog, and tarantula spider). But we ended up with gerbils.
We thought gerbils would be the best choice for a pet. Cute and fuzzy, they had tails like mice but were bigger and easier to catch (or so we thought), and because they are desert animals they don't pee very much. (But they really do poop a lot!)
We were warned that they like to chew plastic. But if gerbils and hamsters like to chew plastic why is it that all their cages and toys are made of plastic?
Chad named his little guys Chedder and Chester. I call them the "chewer-poopers." So far they have chewed a quarter of their steps away and just last night chewed up their exercise wheel. If you put a toilet roll tube in their cage they can shred it to tiny little pieces in less then a minute! And when you pick them up they bite you! (Just ask Chad and Halle and they will dramatically tell you all about their terrible gerbil bites!!!)
But there you have it - got to love them (smell and all).
So now that you have all this information, any one up for gerbil-sitting when we go on vacation?
Halle and Chad watch the gerbils run around in the bath tub.
This one is Chester. He is quite a bit bigger than his brother. He is also the one that had bitten my children. (Naughty, naughty gerbil!)
This one is Chedder. He is small and hyper. See the green plastic steps and the yellow plastic wheel? They don't look like that any more! Those little chewer-poopers!
If they know these animals chew up plastic why do they make things for them out of plastic?
2 comments:
Wow!! Congratulations on the new pets. Carl tried to talk me into getting Ashlee a kitten for her birthday. (He doesn't care that I am allergic to them) or that we already have 2 dogs and a bearded dragon that no one else in this house takes care of. Really?? one more pet that I can't touch to feed. NO THANKS!
Sounds like quite an adventure! Good luck with all that plastic!
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