Originally Posted by
owlice
Gerbils are great pets. They do best with some gerbil company, are fun as heck to watch (especially after their cage/habitat has been cleaned), will respond if you play with them/hand train them, and are easy to care for. And they are really cute. My son had gerbils when he was small; they were a lot of fun.
And if you get a bunch of cages/habitats, reconfiguring the gerbil abode becomes an interesting engineering project!
We had nine cages in all, and would have has many as eight at a time making up the gerbil complex. (We always kept at least one cage separate in case of illness/need to transport/stashing for the complex cleaning spree.) Lots of tubes and levels and places for the gerbils to be.
I have a friend who used to have rats as pets and liked them a lot. (Now she has cats, so ... no rats.) But gerbils... are definitely cuter!
I'll admit gerbils are cute but rats have more personality. They also need to have friends of the same sex to keep them company or they become depressed.
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