My Fat-tailed Jirds

Hey

A few of you wanted to see my fat-tailed jirds. Soo, I will upload some photos.

Jirds are a species of rodent very similar to gerbils.. but larger. There are many species but the most popular in the UK are Shaw's Jirds, i think. Fat-tailed Jirds are quite popular in Europe, but in the UK they are not common, but i've talked to people on forums from down south who own them.

I searched to some in my area for ages.. and I finally found a breeder in Southport.. which is about an hours drive away, but we went on a saturday when it's busy soo it took ages to get there. I was told I was buying two males.. they were 4 months old and had never been handled soo i got them cheaper. I shouldn't have bought them because of this but i REALLY wanted some and we had travelled there.

After about 2 weeks of owning them.. they were biting me still and fighting with each other all night. I was considering seperating them.. but one night, it was almost 12am and i was half asleep.. and i heard a very loud squeak. soo i ran over to the tank and my jird were attacking each other sooo i stopped them.. and then i noticed a pink blob move in the corner and my first reaction was OMG it's a tail.. but it moved again. They were little pinkies .. i've wrote too much.. soo i'll stop now.

Soo.. I own Zera (formerly Timon) and Pumba. And They had 2 babies.. One is at my ex-boyfriends and I kept the male Zombie. Zombie and Pumba live together



the babies



pumba: the daddy gerbie




zera: the mommy gerbie.. and satan's spawn lol she's evil

Awww....they are very very cute. I like them!

haha thankyouu

i want some lol they are so cute

they are very friendly if you get them young

i cant have anything cute a furry as garys snake try to eat them but if i could i would get some babies

=] awww im sure you can still get them.. just dont let the snake anywhere near them lol

i'd be lucky all gary would do is call them snake food lol

awww what a meanie

he used to say it to my puppy but that was cos his snake did go for her but lucky the tank door was shut lol

:O that scary.. Big snakes are scary lol

yeah 8ft carpet python, he's a big boy lol

i couldnt keep a huge snake.. what if i escaped.. it would try and eat you in your sleep :O

lol he's a good boy and far to lazy to escape, you can leave his viv door open and he wont move

hahaha aww bless him

I just showed them to Alexis, by 3 year old and she wants some now....lol. I have never heard of them here in Canada though. Doesn't mean that they don't have them but I have never seen any here.

They are also known as Duprasi. Search online and cool, I didn't know you were from Canada. That's awesome ^ ^