Pouchy
03-09-2008, 11:29 AM
Is it right to keep pet rodents in same sex groups in small cages, as from my experience this past year, they seem to fall out, quarrel and fight. Forcing them to live like homosexuals seems to bring out unnatural behaviours and aggression. So even the sociable hamsters like the dwarves have to be seperated as they scrapped, the female gerbils used to fight and the multis also quarrel. When I were nobbut a lad I kept a male and female gerbil in the same cage and they never fought.
Obviously the reason we force our animals to live in single sex pairs and groups is so that we aren't inundated with hundreds of little furballs who eat us out of house and home, but is this really fair on the animals themselves.
I did read on the web that dwarf male hamsters also are loners apart from when they wish to indulge in carnal knowledge and also male fancy mice will fight and these are supposedly social animals.
Any thoughts and should we be keeping some of these animals as pets if they can't get on with each other in a small space or only as a breeding pair? Discuss
Obviously the reason we force our animals to live in single sex pairs and groups is so that we aren't inundated with hundreds of little furballs who eat us out of house and home, but is this really fair on the animals themselves.
I did read on the web that dwarf male hamsters also are loners apart from when they wish to indulge in carnal knowledge and also male fancy mice will fight and these are supposedly social animals.
Any thoughts and should we be keeping some of these animals as pets if they can't get on with each other in a small space or only as a breeding pair? Discuss