yesterday, on saturday july 31st, my gerbil, Opal, had her pups, that we werent expecting. so it really scared me when i walked up to her and her sisters tank (with the cat on top, oops!) to find her munching away at her young! we dont know if it was still-born or whatthat she was eating it. why might she have been eating it?
but anyways i got the cat out of the room and the other female into a diff cage. a few mins later she had another pup. its still alive and its gorgeous. but those are the only two she had. Ive heard that most pups that are born in a small litter as such usually dont live. (but shes bein a good mom.) is this true? does mine have a chance?
also: will a male mate wiith two diferent females? I heard that they mate 4 life. thank u!
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I have questions on my gerbil and her new pup! plz help!
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Males will mate with 2 females. I got my gerbils off someone who had 2 breeding females and one male. But it can be that the females don't like to have the other female there since the male does help with the 'housework' and bringing up the young and so she can get jeolous of the other female.
Your female may of eaten her young becasue the cat was on her cage and that was causeing her lot of stress.
(If you get litters from both females, you can put pups together when they leave their mum and they will get on fine, I have 2 females which live together and came from different mums since they seem to have been the only females that came from several of their parent's litters)
