Post by vixxsin on Nov 13, 2020 5:31:56 GMT -8
Hello!
Was just wondering if anyone had any advice on long time male gerbils that have now had to be separated.
They lived just the two of them and occasionally had chasing episodes that we passed off as battles for dominance but the past two weeks, they'd been having chases on a daily basis. Although they were sleeping together in-between these episodes, the times they were on good terms was getting shorter and shorter so we decided to separate them for the sake of the gerbil being chased. The chases often were sparked over food seemingly (although, their food situation hasn't changed for over 2 years now) although we can't confirm this for sure.
Their cages are next to each other and they seem to be trying to get back to each other but when we tried separating them temporarily before, they ended up immediately going back at it, seemingly worse than before.
Does anyone have any advice on how to keep separated cage mates as happy as possible under the circumstances?
Thank you in advance!
Was just wondering if anyone had any advice on long time male gerbils that have now had to be separated.
They lived just the two of them and occasionally had chasing episodes that we passed off as battles for dominance but the past two weeks, they'd been having chases on a daily basis. Although they were sleeping together in-between these episodes, the times they were on good terms was getting shorter and shorter so we decided to separate them for the sake of the gerbil being chased. The chases often were sparked over food seemingly (although, their food situation hasn't changed for over 2 years now) although we can't confirm this for sure.
Their cages are next to each other and they seem to be trying to get back to each other but when we tried separating them temporarily before, they ended up immediately going back at it, seemingly worse than before.
Does anyone have any advice on how to keep separated cage mates as happy as possible under the circumstances?
Thank you in advance!
