new cat behavior

It is very, very not fair! They just chew the boxes all up and ruin them, anyway.

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Daisy: Here are my pets, Bert and Ernie! They live in a 20 gallon aquarium. When it is time to clean their cage, they have to go in this little plastic cage for a few minutes. Here they are ready to go back in and explore their newly-cleaned home!

They get Carefresh bedding mixed with aspen shavings and a handful of Timothy hay. There are also toys like wooden sticks, wood blocks, and pieces of cardboard to chew up. Those toys sound a little bit boring! Gerbils love to burrow, and they especially have fun exploring their home after it has been cleaned and rearranged. Here Ernie found a piece of dried carrot! They eat from a bowl, but there are also bits of food scattered around for foraging fun.

After doing all that burrowing, Ernie's hair got a little bit messy. It looks like he has a tiny mohawk!

Here is a little video of Bert and Ernie exploring right after their cage was cleaned:

ps: It's me, Daisy! I wrote about my magical medicine that makes my joints feel better at the PetMeds Pet Talk blog today.

This is Ernie. He is a Mongolian gerbil. Sometimes gerbils do funny things! Gerbils will thump their back feet to warn other gerbils of danger.

Ernie would like to demonstrate his thumping skills with this little video:

Tap, tap, tap

me and bert woke up today and saw a GHOST! i think he rode in here on that little broom. we huddled together for a second because we were scairted!

his head is filled with seeds and raisins and dried berries! so i eated his brains. I like Halloween!

bert and i got this new bowl for our foodses. i'm sitting inside and posing so you can see my pretty, pretty furs. i am a spotted agouti gerbil, so this makes white spots in my coats, and it also makes my furs a lighter color. do you think i am pretty, even though i am a boy? i has long fingernailz!

oh, i see! you supposed to eat from the lower side. bert is waiting his turn in line.

i'll go chew up some cardboards until it is my turn to eat some more. my favorite treats are raisins. and pumpkin seeds. and dried mealworms. and brockli. and bananners.

it is bert and ernie here again! we want to show you our special new present... a Box O' Bits! it has a cardboard box to chew all up and hay and treats inside!

ohai! it is me, ernie! i am just having a snack. do you like to chew stuff up? i do! especially cardboards. ps, do you see my puffy tail?

here is a movie you can see starring me chewing my cardboard. i am so strong, i got lifted off the ground. bert stoled my cardboard in the end though. bad, bad bert.

Now that Bert and Ernie are over 16 (weeks), they decided they would like to get a car. Since they only have $2.98, they had to settle for this cardboard truck. They still did a good inspection before buying. Ernie is looking under the hood, but Bert just wants to check out the back.

Ernie is a proud new owner! Too bad he cannot afford insurance, since this car is sure to get chewed up.

Wheeee! Bert and Ernie enjoy riding in the back. I hope they do not get a ticket for driving without a driver...