Gerbil Rumble

Kit Kat split our largest cage in two using mesh wire. This was to let the fighting gerbils see and smell each other without killing each other. Our large gerbil did not like this arrangement. It drove her crazy. She could not get to the gerbils she is warring with. So instead she turned on the gerbil we had on her side of the cage.

Momoko had Kit Kat remove these gerbils from the split tank. I said we might be able to cover the mesh wire barrier with cardboard to limit sight and smell across the divide. This seems to have worked. The large gerbil is still a bit wild. But she is not attacking the gerbil in her half of the cage.

The end goal is for the gerbils to become reacquainted. Then we hope that we can remove the barrier and there will be peace. This setup is already starting to have a calming effect on our home gerbils, whose tank we split with mesh wire earlier this week.