Gerbil Crisis
We got three gerbils last weekend. Saturday I believe. It took them exactly five days to figure out how to escape from their cage.
Kathleen came to my room at 6:45 this morning. "Mom! I heard the gerbil door open and close, and now two of the gerbils are missing." Let me just say this: I never wanted those stinking rodents in the first place. The escape was not good news. I pictured myself alone in the house with free range rodents chewing up all my possessions and frightening me as they darted here and there. Mouse traps crossed my mind. Fortunately for the gerbils, and for me, they were apprehended and are again residing in their luxury habitat.
You might wonder how we came to possess three gerbils. It's a long story, but the moral is this: My husband has been permanently banned from all "Going Out of Business" sales. Our local hypermart was closing and there were great deals to be had on gerbils cages. I think they were 75% off. How could he pass them up? Well, guess what...gerbils were not on sale. Gerbil food was not on sale. Gerbil accoutrements were not on sale. That $5 bargain cage cost a fortune in the long run, and now I have gerbils. In my house. Running free from time to time.
Enough about the gerbils. I hate the gerbils.
I have another product endorsement. Yoplait Light Smoothies! Wow, those are yummy yummy and only one point each on the Weight Watchers plan. I'm going to stock up on them today. And the Yak Trax: Two thumbs up again today! I was able to walk for an hour today in the balmy 25 degree weather. (Really, 25 degrees is downright balmy after the single digits we've had. I was sweating and peeling off layers out there.)
Kathleen came to my room at 6:45 this morning. "Mom! I heard the gerbil door open and close, and now two of the gerbils are missing." Let me just say this: I never wanted those stinking rodents in the first place. The escape was not good news. I pictured myself alone in the house with free range rodents chewing up all my possessions and frightening me as they darted here and there. Mouse traps crossed my mind. Fortunately for the gerbils, and for me, they were apprehended and are again residing in their luxury habitat.
You might wonder how we came to possess three gerbils. It's a long story, but the moral is this: My husband has been permanently banned from all "Going Out of Business" sales. Our local hypermart was closing and there were great deals to be had on gerbils cages. I think they were 75% off. How could he pass them up? Well, guess what...gerbils were not on sale. Gerbil food was not on sale. Gerbil accoutrements were not on sale. That $5 bargain cage cost a fortune in the long run, and now I have gerbils. In my house. Running free from time to time.
Enough about the gerbils. I hate the gerbils.
I have another product endorsement. Yoplait Light Smoothies! Wow, those are yummy yummy and only one point each on the Weight Watchers plan. I'm going to stock up on them today. And the Yak Trax: Two thumbs up again today! I was able to walk for an hour today in the balmy 25 degree weather. (Really, 25 degrees is downright balmy after the single digits we've had. I was sweating and peeling off layers out there.)
posted by Juanita at
8:44 AM
4 Comments:
I remember our gerbil died the day I had a friend (Kathleen B) over to play after school. I was broken up about it. She just wanted to ride bikes.
My diet endorsement product are those Blue Bunny chocolate popsicles. I think they're 1/2 point each...so naturally, you can eat an entire box full at a time. Yum.
I want to buy a rat - somehow cant talk my sister into letting me keep it up here in my room - gee whats up with that?!
We had gerbils growing up...but mom hated them. I remember they got some sort of mite and mom said they died from it. We didn't find out until years later that the mites could have been fixed with medication, but mom didn't want to waste money on the gerbils, so she put them in a paper bag, attached the bag to the exhaust pipe of the car, then fired the car up.
I think I should call her Dr. Kevorkian from now on out.
TigerGrrl has a Guinea Pig campaign ongoing right now. I do not want rodents in the house. And not only because of what DestructoGirl could do to them.
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