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Absolutely disgusting!!!!!!!!

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SilverSparkle · 27/06/2008 12:42

be warned, this is disgusting but i just wondered what you mums and dads would do if this was your child.

My DP's ex has a 2 year old DS who the other day...wait for it....bit of the gerbils head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bit it clean off, and there was blood everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Her and her DP found it hilarious and just cleaned DS off and that was the end of that.

I was horrified! Poor gerbil!

I have a 2 year old and i know he wouldn't dream of doing this to an animal....but also, would you have taken the child to get checked out by the doctor to make sure he didn't catch anything??

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objectivity · 27/06/2008 12:45

I would have been a little sdhocked/grossed out but I too would have cleaned up and moved on. Would have explained that one doesn't normally eat animals live though.

madamez · 27/06/2008 12:45

I would advise a medical check up and I would not leave the child alone with small animals again. However, I don't think the child is automatically possessed by satan or a future serial killer: 2 is a bit young to understand what is 'real' ie alive and what is not.

meemar · 27/06/2008 12:46

Ooh that's really made my stomach turn.

I cannot believe the parents were laughing . Of course the little boy didn't understand the horror of what he was doing but he at least needed to be told that it was wrong.

I would have got the boy checked over too.

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princessglitter · 27/06/2008 12:46

How would a 2 year old have the strength to do that?

objectivity · 27/06/2008 12:47

I doubt he will contract anything. I wouldn't bother with medical check up, unless Googling told me blood of a gerbil was lethal to humans.

edam · 27/06/2008 12:49

Good grief. Of course they shouldn't have laughed, the horrible pair. Time for stern words.

PinkPussyCat · 27/06/2008 12:49

No more Ozzy Osbourne for him

iheartdusty · 27/06/2008 12:51

I can't help thinking he was egged on to do this or the idea was planted in him.

sure,my dcs have put all kinds of things in their mouths, from snails to woodlice, but to pick up and bite something hard enough to take its head off strikes me as unlikely.

OrmIrian · 27/06/2008 12:54

Poor animal! That is awful. It can't have been quick either - people don't have that sharp or strong a bite. They shouldn't have laughed. Getting cross would have been unfair but a strict talking to is in order.

I feel sick

BlueDragonfly · 27/06/2008 12:54

i can't figure out how a 2 yo would have the jaw strength to bite thru bones to bite the head off

wannaBe · 27/06/2008 12:59

I don't believe this happened.

Once he put the gerble's head in his mouth and started to bite it would have bitten him. So unless the berble was already dead I think that someone is having a larf here.

wannaBe · 27/06/2008 13:00

the gerble even.

cheesesarnie · 27/06/2008 13:01

eeurgh.thats awful.and laughing!stupid parents.

cheesesarnie · 27/06/2008 13:02

aah wannaBe has a point.

PestoMonster · 27/06/2008 13:03

I don't believe it either.

princessglitter · 27/06/2008 13:06

It would not be possible for a 2 year old to bite the head clean off. My 2 year old is good at chewing, but I doubt that she would be capable physically of that.

OrmIrian · 27/06/2008 13:17

I hope that your is correct wannabe.

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SilverSparkle · 27/06/2008 13:23

Hi again,

Honestly, this is what my DP was told by her and i'm convinced it happened. I agree with you all though, how could he have bitten his head clean off, so i think i'm going to ask him again if that was the case or was the gerbil's head/neck bitten hard and then left to die.

Either way....poor gerbil.

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chunkychips · 27/06/2008 13:25

I would have gone absolutely mad, I've never heard anything like it. Parents laughing is just disgusting. If that's their attitude to animals they shouldn't keep them. Why was he given the opportunity to do it though? Surely if you give a two year old something like a gerbil you'd be worried they'd squeeze it too hard or something, but bite it's head off!? Hope it's not true.

loopylou6 · 27/06/2008 13:26

Did anyone see that purple flying horse on the news a minute ago

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SilverSparkle · 27/06/2008 13:28

Their were 2 gerbils originally, bought about 2 weeks ago for another of her child's birthday. A week later one gerbil was killed when a child stepped on it. A further one was then bought to replace this one.

One of these then suffered this fate. I assume there is still one gerbil remaining.

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loopylou6 · 27/06/2008 13:31

I think someones pulling your leg SS. We have 6 gerbils and believe me its a nightmare to even get one of them out of the cage, they are slippey lil things and extremely quick aswell

madamez · 27/06/2008 13:39

Oh yes, and the next one will die in a mysterious flaming arsehole accident. won't it?
(Rchrd Gre where are you when you are needed?)

ManhattanMama · 27/06/2008 13:42

This is a pile of steaming doo-doo.

We had loads of gerbils as kids and there's no way in the world a 2 year old could pick one up (or even hang onto one for very long if it were handed to him/her), put it's head in his mouth and take a bite without being sharply bitten back!

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