Gerbils part 1

yesterday I spent quality time with Arrow at my friends house. Since Arrow and Winter are babies, they need to be trained, and learn to trust us. After a couple tries Arrow let me hold him, he loves to curl up in a ball in my hands and sit on my lap.  My friend is a little scared because she never had a small pet. But winter loves to snuggle in my coat, but arrow is more adventurous, he loves to climb everywhere.

We decided to start training them to run through things. We started with paper towel tubes. To get them to run easily through we had to hold the entrance of the tube up to their heads. Winter was a little slow at learining, but since Arrow loves to climb he went right through after several tries. We soon cut the bottoms of plastic cups and made them run through. But first we let them explore their traning area ( a bin). Since Arrow mastered the tubes, he went right on to the paper cups, Winter was trying to go through the tubes. After 10 minutes of traning, Winter would weave in and out of the tubs on her own. Arrow is having trouble with the cups, because he is very lazy. But now Winter and arrow are equally trained, but they excel in different things. Me and my friend will continue to train them to run through tunnels. Then we'd go on to walking over things.

We also decided to clean the gerbils. We first tried it out by filling a tin bowl with water, we put that bowl in a big container. We put the gerbils in one by one. They hate water, but they evetually sit. Arrow scrambled out, a couple times. But we managed to keep them in. After we found out they didn't get fully wet. So we used their water bottle to squirt them with water. Winter loves it when we squirt it on her forhead to it runs down her back. Arrow like it when I squirt his back. It's funny because arrows tan fur turns black.

After training and cleaning we took them in the bathroom for a free run. They loved to race around the place and climb onto our laps and legs. I even put worr on my head. Winter very squirmy, so she grabs onto my hair and falls down my face (it really funny). Arrows a sweetie although he bit me a couple times (more like teethed), because he seems to suck but nibble me. After they where exhausted and resided in their "trailer" (over turned kleenex box) They snuggled up and fell asleep.