Biscuits bears, brother and sister, as Paddington and Winnie the Pooh. Outfits done by an Etsy artist but I did add the threads to close the duffle-coat and craft the little tag.
Honey pot printed by my dad and to be painted.
I’m soooo in love with them.
Happy Pride Month !
Still experimenting fun stuff with colorful mascara and pastel shadows. I did Pride rainbow yesterday, lesbian flag today !
I’m still struggling with to paint graphic eyeliner because I haven’t held a brush to paint anything it 10 years 😬
Tell me what you think !
Great news is she’s healthy !
I bought a shit ton of new makeup to try colorful and graphic styles because I’ve spent way too long hiding myself and traditional makeup isn’t really doing it for me outside for the « clean girl » stuff. I have very hooded eyes and downturned at that so basically no lid space once they are open.
Since it’s pride I had a little fun with the Glisten Cosmetics spectrum mascaras !
Please forgive the poor execution, I did that quickly for fun.
BUT my vet said it was incredible and asked me for the mascara reference ☺️
Hi !
First of all, I’ve had gerbils for over 15 years and I know the split-cage method and introductions and all, so I’m not seeking advice on how to do it.
I’ve got a rescue gerbil that is almost one year old, to put with my old gerbil (almost 2yo) after her sister passed away. They are both females. They’ve been in split-cage for about a month and a half, I’ve had them meet multiple times already, it was never successful but they didn’t draw blood either.
The young one was very skittish when I got her, she bit a lot. She came around quite nicely with me, she’s way more tame and gentle, but she has very hardcore heat cycles. They last from 2 to 4 days at a time and start again 48h after it’s over.
She gets very aggressive when she’s on heat, so I’ve tried to have them meet when she’s not in heat. In went okay but she tends to nip my old gerbil, and pee on her. She also pees on me a lot in a dominant way, she mounts my hand and arm like she would another gerbils.
Once it came to a semi-peace during a meet-up where she went to sleep and the oldest one anxiously lied next to her but she was terrified so I separated them.
I tried again a few times after that, but she gets more and more agressive. They are very chill when the split is in, they sniff and touch noses through the grid, but once they are together it gets angry. Young gerbil nips the old one a lot, and they are both very skittish so every time one of them moves a whisker, the other one gets defensive, which doesn’t help.
Today the young one got agressive almost immediately and the old one ran into the burrow and blocked the access, so she got nipped. I separated them again.
So question is : do I keep trying ? Do I get a second enclosure for the young one but they won’t have other friends ? (I cant afford to take two other gerbils and risk the cohab not working and ending up with even more tanks, I don’t have the space).
I don’t want to rehome them because the old one might have a gland tumor that I’m getting checked, and the younger is a rescue already. She was in a bad situation so it might explain her behavioral issues.
Do I separate them for a while and try again in a few weeks once they’ve forgotten each other ?
Please let me know your opinion if you’re experienced with gerbils and cohab.
Thank you !