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I have recently rescued a young gerbil, (maybe just about a year old), from a co-worker who, thank God, could not get her, (and i hate saying this), snake to eat it. I very readily volunteered to foster or probably adopt it after hearing she was thinking about letting it loose. It is the cutest little black gerbil, but it bites very hard! I do understand it must have been terribly traumatized, but it's been a couple months & it won't calm down. I have ventured to buying leather gloves to attempt to hold the poor gerbil, but i feel so bad that he is so scared. Can anyone suggest anything? I've only had rats and they are wonderful to handle and love. Help!!

Comment #1 Zory (75.16.167.203) -

To help relax the biting, you can gently brush your gerbil with a tooth brush and keep on doing that until it learns not to bite it. I know this is used on hamsters so it might work on a gerbil to. Also try putting a gerbil treat on your hand that it can't resist.

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