I may have had a little furry secret recently...

[kyrilliondaemon]

...Or you know, maybe a few of them... Like eighteen or so...

The critters in this post've come from a few sources, all were needing homes for one reason or another though. It all started with a facebook ad... I ignored the ad for over a week, then after 10 days or so of trying to resist I got in touch... About two hours later I'd arranged to get the creatures in question without their cage (a savic spelos) and we were on our way to collect some gerbils. The ad had said they were a male and female, we hoped they were wrong but a quick check proved they'd been correct and we had a male and a female on our hands. We named them Bubblegum and Fixit and needing to wait out Bubblegum's pregnancy watch is why we chose to wait to tell people about them.

Bubblegum


Fixit


We got those two about two months ago and since then we've found quite a few other gerbils in need of homes who've come into our care, the only problem was that it seemed wrong to post about those without posting about Bubblegum and Fixit so we've kept them quiet too.

The first to join us were Ben (right), Jerry (left) and Tommy (middle). Three friendly brothers who get along really well together


Then it was Mystery, he was free to a good home with all his stuff and we named him Mystery as we knew very little about him before we got him. He turned out to be a male who's about a year old and has since made a fantastic friend for Fixit who was quite lonely once we'd split him from Bubblegum. The boys intro went really well, we took it slow and have had no problems at all. They've been really laid back about the whole thing, never seemed fussed at all about each other during the intro. Now they're together they're really close, we rarely see one without the other and we often catch them sitting together - usually with one on the others head!

This is Mystery, he's not in that cage any longer but its what he came to us in


This is Apricot who is really friendly to us but who fought with her sisters in her last home and refused all attempts at introductions there. She's a really happy girl living on her own though so we see little reason to try and change that while she's showing all the normal, happy behaviours every other one of our gerbils is showing


Next up... Sisters Cherry and Orange! We were told they were males (they're not) and Cherrys tail has been half-bald since the day we got her but it doesn't change and never seems to be a problem for her. The girls are really devoted to each other and Orange won't go anywhere without her best friend Cherry there to back her up.

Cherry


Orange


I'd also like to introduce sisters Mia and Cat, the people at their last home were really friendly - we dropped in to collect some gerbils and I found myself cuddling a chinchilla! That said, when someone there asked what the girls were called we found out that only one of the girls had anything like a name and the other was sort of being referred to as "Spot" because she has a spot on her head. We don't normally rename pets but in their case we thought we'd make an exception. They're both nice friendly girls, experts in demolition (like most gerbils!) and a lot more fond of their wheel than most of our other gerbils.

Mia


Cat

[kyrilliondaemon]

The last pair to join us were two young sisters we've named Inky and Chute, apparently their parents were missexed and someone had a bit of a surprise when they found themselves with pups on their hands. The person put in a lot of effort and these two are really tame and friendly girls, all we've got to do to get them out is put our hand in the cage and wait a second or two - its rare it takes longer than that before one (or both!) has rushed out of bed to say hello. They do look very similar and there're only two ways to tell them apart, personality helps a bit but isn't reliable, so to see who is who we check the front paws. Inky has more white on hers than Chute does. You can see them both and their paws in the next two photos, in both photos Inky is at the back and Chute is at the front.





Now, last but by no means least... The reason we've waited quite this long to tell many people about the gerbils. Bubblegum's pregnancy watch went well, no signs of pregnancy at all... We got to the last day with no signs and started to breathe a big sigh of relief... Only to go out for a few hours and get home to pup squeaks! The pups turned four weeks old yesterday, they're not quite out of the woods yet but they're past most of the really scary times and at this point I think they deserve to be introduced to people. There're two boys and three girls, they've been a big help with their names and I'm pleased to say the boys are named Soap and Twitch, the girls are Thunder, Skyrocket and Popcorn. I do have some videos of them when they were younger, but I took these photos earlier today for you all.

Soap (right) and Twitch (left)


Skyrocket


Thunder


Popcorn (left) and Thunder (right)


Popcorn and Thunder again


Twitch


And with that... I've finally introduced every pet we currently own! I hope you enjoy all the pictures

[Playtime]

Awwwww theyre allll so cute But wow that's a lot!! I would love to have that many...

[cypher]

What a lot of gorgeous little furry secrets lol! You've done such a great job giving all these little ones new homes & the pups are adorable!

[Shannonmcn]

That is so many gerbils. So many.

They're all gorgeous shiny beautiful gerbils though :3

[jemmalg]

Oh wow kyrill, you really go all out with your adoptions..! Allll the gerbils! They are adorable, I never knew gerbils had so many colour variations!

[Pebbles82]

I never knew gerbils were so cute! Don't know much about them. What a lovely secret - and gorgeous pups. I bet Mum was waiting for you to go out lol.

[rivertamster]

They're all so beautiful! Well done on rescuing them are you planning on rehoming?

[racinghamster]

They are all adorable kyrill, I love gerbils and miss keeping them, they are such cheeky characters! My first ever gerbil was a black male called Max and he lived until he was close to four years old! x

[BrainGirl]

Darnit, I thought I'd commented on this last night! You gerbils are adorable It's been a long time since I had baby gerbils (or any gerbils for that matter) around the house. I forgot how cute they are!