If you cklick on the pictures you can read about them too.....

Pepsi, Cola & Sprite

This were my rowdy crowd.....*S* Råttis was their fatherr, and their mother was Lillan. Lillan died when we were almost 5 weeks old. They had a sister too, Fanta who you can read about on another page.

Our father Råttis raised us, he was a very kind, sweet and wise dad. We lived with him until he died last year.

Theese guys sure liked to have fun, and were always up to do something rowdy.

Once, they were running in the bedrom while i was surfing on the Internet. Sprite got a little bored, because Cola and Pepsi was playing hide and seek, and Sprite got tired of that. He wantedme to cuddle him, so he decided to chew off the telephone cable! 

Their favorite food is sunflower seeds, millet seeds and cucumber. What they liked most was when were alllowed to run around inmy bedroom. There's a lot of hidingplaces, and other fun stuffs. The quilt on my bed was fun, there's a whole in it (Trixi did it, great idea!) so they could crawl inside the quilt and hide. And there's a lot of pillows to crawl under. And there's two baskets, where she has some magazines, they were great to hide in, and if they got t bored, they could always chew on the magazines.....

Pappsen (Råttis)

Råttis was an Golden Argente male, and Lillans' mate.After Lillans' death, he fostered his four children by himself. And he did a very good job! He was a very kind, sweet and wise little gerbil.  He was very indulgant towards his sons' all mischiefs. He was very easy to handle. He loved to run around at the coach, and to eat baby cerials, millet-seeds, and crackers. Unfortunatelly he died 8/2 1999. Maybe he is together with Lillan in gerbil Heaven now! Of course we miss him very, very much!

Humle & Dumle

My two little angels....

Humle
was the white one (REW) and Dumle was slate. I got them as a present from my sons, Dennis and Robin. They bought them for me, because i was so sad when Trixi died,
and they wanted to cheer me up. 

And they did cheer her up! Of course, i was still sad about Trixi, but they sure helped her to keep my mind off that. And who can resist such charmful sweeties as those two???? Humle, so calm and sweet, and Dumle a rowdy , lvely little one with big backfeet.....*S* 

Dumle was the one who mades all mischiefs, but i coildn´t be angry at him for long,
because he was so charmy. Humle was the "bodybuilder" in the house. He had
a lot of muscels because he was always running in the hamsterwheel. He loved
it, and sometimes there wass some noise about that, because Dumle wanted
to run too, but Humle didn't want to leave the wheel. But most of the time
they got along well. 

When Dumle was bored, he climeds up on the top of the wheel, and gnawed at the metal. Or he made noise with the waterbottle. He took the metalpipe in his mouth,
and then he pushed the whole bottle towards him, and then he "dropped" it so
it banged to the glasswall. Wow, did that make noise!! If he did that several
times, someone usually comes to picked them up, and mission was completed...... Dumle died from a stroke, winter 2002, he had trecoverd from one earlier but the second time he couldn´t make it. Humle died shortly after, he seemed a bit depressed after Dumle had died, so we bought two new ones to keep him company....but it didn´t help. But, i could be just that he was old....

Festis & Fanta

Festis was a grey agouti, and Fant awas a dove. Fanta was from the same litter as Pepsi, Cola and Sprite. They lived toghether in a nice aquarium, where they could burrow a lot. One of their favourite sportswas to hide the fooddish from me. It seemed to be fun to watch me seek for it! Sometimes i couldn´t find it, and had to give them a new one!

It was also fun to make a lot of noise when had got to bed, so i couldn´t sleep. Festis sure cold make BIG noise with the water bottle, and almost every time i gave up, turned the light on, and let them come up for a while. And that wasa exactly what they wanted...

It seemed to be fun to spend some time with me and run on her bed. And there was so much nice things to hide under or behind, a papers to chew on........It was also fun to hide under the quilt. To tell you the truth, they did make some nice holes in the sheet, too.

Festis is the one who makes most mischiefs. She jumped up to the window, and ate from the flowers there, and once she dug out all dirt from one flowerpot, and spread it out! She thought it was fun, but i wasn't too happy about it. (can't
imagine why? ;-) )

KLAS

KNUT

Knut was a little darkbrown pet mouse. He was a little rascal, always with a glint in the eye. He liked to collect things, like bunpapers, erasers, threads, icecream sticks, and everything else that looks funny, and may be useful.

Every morning he ate breakfast with me. When i got up from bed, he was already sitting on his ladder, wating for me to open the tank. He loved toast with a little butter on, so mostly i gave him that. IHe also liked Cottage cheese, and yoghurt too. Popcorn was another favorite. He was a bit shy but, we two were very special friends...he was never afraid or shy to me. I was the only one he allowed to put a hand in the cage, without biting. But if anyone else do that, they could get a little bite in a finger! Not so hard, just as hard as they knew i don't like to be disturbed.

He like to sit on my shoulder, when i worked with her computer, and watched what i was doing. Healso like to hide behind my r hair in the neck, and tickle me with my tail.....Besides Trixi, i think i miss him most of all my pets.....

LILLAN

She died when she was giving birth to her second litter. She was a great mom to  Cola, Sprite, Fanta and Pepsi, and a wonderful mwife to Råttis. She also was a
real fan of digging and jumping. I think Cola, Fanta and Pepsi has
taken after her a lot.

META & LOTTEN

My two black beauties... Their names were Meta och Lotten . Meta was named by my oldest son, because everytimee he said "meta" ,  she raised her head and looked up at him.  Lotten was named after a tv-show character. I bought them 20 october 1999.

The reason i bought them, was that they were kind of "left over" in the pet shop. They were born w 28, and had been in the shop for almost 3 months. No one seemed to want them, and the shop had even put a lower prize on them. The other, younger gerbs were sold all the time. So, i couldn't help buying them!  I can't imagine why no one wouldm't have such sweet beauties as theese two??? Well, here at "The Gerbil House" , we wanted them and they were loved!

How did i see the distinction between them?  Meta had just a little white-face under the chin, while Lotten's white-face was narrowing to a thin stripe, that reached down at her belly. She also had a white spot at each front paw.

Both of them were very alert and not afraid at all. Lotten was bit more shy than Meta, liked to cuddle on my arm, or sit under my hair in the neck. They were very social and friendly, and i'm amazed how fast they adjusted to their new home.

Meta died in 2003, from a stroke, and lotten died shortly after, i´m not sure why, maybe she just missed Meta that much...??

MUSSE PIGG

Guess who he got his name from?
He was the newest inhabitant in The Gerbil House, and my very special little friend. Before he came to us, he lived with a boy named Mattias. But his mother got allergic, so he couldn't keep me. So he got a new home here in The Gerbil House.

I think he enjoyed staying here, there was always someone to play with and he got at lot of attention from all of us. Every mornong he kept me company while i was eating my breakfast, and waited for some treats. As all mice he loved to climb on things, and to run around on the couch. He was a very energic little mouse, and never sat still much, mostly he run around or climbed on things or on us. And he ate a lot!! It's amazing how much food a tiny little mouse can find place to in their little tummies!!