Hi. We have 8 week old sisters, who have been with us for 2 weeks. we are hand taming which is going well with the confident one and its going slowly with the shy one. We'd like to clean out their bedding in the next week or so but at present we wouldn't be able to lift the shy one out of the cage. Any tips?
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Thank you. Hand taming is getting there. I do want to ask about biting. One of our gerbils bites every time a hand is in the cage. She has lots of other things that are worth biting, toys from pet shop, pine cones, sticks etc but is biting us alot. I read somewhere that if you blow on their heads that is punishment for a gerbil but this isn't doing the trick. She does pierce the skin and several times I have lifted my hand away with her dangling off as she has such a firm bite into my hand. Any ideas for this? We are making progress with hand taming but now the children are reluctant to get bitten.