Disabled Gerbil! (Gerbils)

Member Name: sophie131

Product:	Gerbils
Date:	11/07/08 (185 review reads)
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Advantages: They do look cute...

Disadvantages: They get sawdust everywhere.

Ok, so someone convinced me it was a good idea to get these critters when I was 15 and I still have them! So I thought i'd tell you how I came about having 3 of them.
I'd set my eyes on two of them, a grey one and a brown one. I'd been watching them for days. So after getting all the equipment ready we went to buy them. It all went well and we put them in the cage. Later that afternoon we realised something was wrong with the grey one's leg - he had a club foot. After phoning Pets and Home and talking about the options they told us to bring him back and they'd swap him for another one. So we did, they assured us he wouldn't be put down. So we returned with a white gerbil. That afternoon my Dad started making remarks about the 'disabled' gerbil that we'd 'abandoned'. He started calling him Tim after that character Tiny Tim with the bad leg. He made us feel so guilty that we phoned pets at home again and asked if we could have him back, they agreed and let us have him for free.
I now have 3 gerbils living in a cage with disabled access :D

Summary: Felt too guilty to leave him there...