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Post by Lelouch on Jun 4, 2015 8:46:29 GMT -8
Lighting isn't optimal, but here are some pics!    He didn't like getting this one taken, I don't blame him!  Had to take that pic a couple of times, because he kept flipping back over on me. You can see I got this one just in time, his back paw was just about to push on my hand.  His fur is a bit greasy ... because I tend to hold my gerbils quite often  His cagemate, Sam, is black with a little white under his nose and chin, and a little bit of white on his front paws. Unsure of the parent's colors. I've had the conclusion that he is some sort of dark spotted siamese, but I am not 100% sure. He seems a bit too gray to me to be burmese. But he has a dark gray/black tail, with a white tip! Also, I can tell when his coat is molting, as I can see the molt lines easily. -Ben |
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Post by fysha on Jun 4, 2015 9:00:11 GMT -8
Cute gerbil.
He looks like a spotted burmese. I have one and he looks a lot like her.
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Post by betty on Jun 4, 2015 9:16:37 GMT -8
He looks like a spotted Burmese to me too. There is always the chance he is a LCP Slate, but until you get a better image of him all dust-bathed up we won't know for sure.
The only way to tell them apart normally is the colour of the toenails - but when they are spotted the nails are always white...
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Post by Lelouch on Jun 4, 2015 12:14:02 GMT -8
Thanks for the replies! Yeah I will work on getting him cleaned up and taking some good pics this weekend. I would say he is spotted burmese, but to me he just doesn't look brown enough to be burmese.  It might just be that the gray and white on his coat is fooling me into thinking he is more gray than brown  smg.photobucket.com/user/chrisandra/media/spburmside.jpg.htmlHe looks almost like that gerbil ^^^ (again, he looks a bit more gray to me. I'm not colorblind as far as I know ) The image title is "spburmside", which I read as spotted burmese ("side" for the picture being of the side of the gerbil). -Ben |
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Post by betty on Jun 4, 2015 12:29:09 GMT -8
His tail is really black though, so most likely Burmese. I have a few LCP Slates myself which look like his colouring on the body, but they don't have such dark tails...
Spotting can also lighten the base colour, so making it seem different to normal.
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Post by vexorg on Jun 5, 2015 5:25:30 GMT -8
The fur shouldn't be greasy even if you handle them. They should lean their fur almost every day.
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Post by Lelouch on Jun 5, 2015 11:04:26 GMT -8
The fur shouldn't be greasy even if you handle them. They should lean their fur almost every day. Yes, they do clean their fur every day. And I hold them every day -Ben |
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Post by vexorg on Jun 5, 2015 14:51:53 GMT -8
Unless you have greasy hands, then I don't see the connection.
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Post by crittercrazy on Jun 5, 2015 15:00:47 GMT -8
Some gerbils just need a lot of chinchilla sand to keep from having that greasy look. How often do you give him a bath? I have a couple gerbils (one of them is a Burmese, actually) that almost always have rather oily fur. And as with everyone else- he looks spotted Burmese to me.  |
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Post by vexorg on Jun 5, 2015 23:42:23 GMT -8
Do you mean oily-greasey? or oily-shiny?
Out of all the gerbils we've had, the burmese one has always had the nicest, shiniest cost. Never scruffy or incepts like most of the others when first out of their bed..
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