Ds has jsy accidently squashed his gerbil!! What to do with the other one???

[kittythescarygoblin]

Any ideas pleas. Poor ds1 has accidently squashed one of his gergils and it is sadly no more. That leaves us with one gerbil. I know they are not supposed to live on their own but I can't simply buy another gerbil as they'll kill each other. What would you do????

oh kitty....that did make me giggle , how do you accidentally squash a gerbil!?!?

give the other gerbil a toy gerbil to play with! or see if it can manage alone... and DS1 needs the 'big gerbil hutch in the sky' talk too!!

Was wondering if the thread title was a euphemism tbh

Sorry I laughed too

Didn't someone's DH do this with the class pet once??

Why don't we have weird euphemisms for boy bits ... if a girl's fanjo is her "lilly" or "boopsie" or "flumsie-dumpsie-flumps", why can't a boy's testicles be his "hamsters", and his willy be his "snucky-wucky"?

i laughed too.
what happened to the gerbil?

Sorry, no advice, Kitty, but your poor DS .

It did remind me of when my friend was a student teacher, and he borrowed my hamster to take into school for the children to look after.

After a couple of months he had to confess that it had escaped from its' cage over one weekend, fallen off the table and got wedged down the back of the radiator!

No-one noticed he was missing - until the heating came on.

RIP Hamlet.

I know, it does sound pretty funny it's come amid the general house choas. He dropped a bucket on it when he was trying to catch it. Should I do away with the other one too, would it be kinder???
Oh bloody hell and ds2 is supposed to be having a football party on sunday and the weather forcast is absolutely shite for just that day
If I wasn't preg I'd have opened the wine by now

My mum sat on a chick once. It was being kept in the kitchen in a box as it's mum had died and my mum was feeding it. Squashed it flat.

Sorry don't know about gerbils but I'd imagine the 'widow wouldn't be very happy on it own. Good thing it was DS that did the deed - you'd never have been forgiven if it was you...

There's a shop near me which sells dodgy magazines and inflatable gerbils if that's any use Kitty? Could send you a blow up one in the post?

Would you need a male or female one?

ROFL

Thankyou Foxy
Female please

Am going to tell dp to stop scratching his gerbils next time he does it

It'll be just fine on it's own - I had a lonesome gerbil as kid and as long as there's loads for it to do in it's cage it should be fine. Alternative is to buy another one and to put it in a separate cage next to the survivor - so a bit of company without a fight.

this reminds me of when I was at school and a friend came in really upset at the apparent suicide of her gerbil.

He was found floating in the fish tank next to his cage shortly after his mate died.

Needless to say she wasn't very happy when I pmsl. I couldn't help it I really couldn't

After that she put chicken wire on the top of all her fishtanks.

Thanks for that mrsfogi

have just posted on march thread(but shouldnt have)about my former gerbils and when one died the other followed shortly afterwards.so i'd just let nature take its course.

fox-do u frequent said shop?

i thought you could only get sheep.

i had a friend who's fish commited suicide by jumping out of its tank.

I had 3 gerbils until fairly recently. Obviously they didn't all die simultaneously - but one after the other after a few months interval in each case:

(* gastric bleed
tumour and accidental drowning by my 4 yr old )

I honestly didn't give it a second thought when number 2 gerbil died leaving number 3 solo

should preview - there was no rhyme nor reason why 'tumour' was in bold font there