The Gerbils

As some of you may know Emma received gerbils for her birthday this year (hey, they're better than a cat - no offense to you cat people, we're not.) After going through several ridiculous names they settled on

"Chewy" :

aptly named

And Eli's is "Bubbles" (that was Penny's name when we got her and they never forgot it)

Bubble is much sweeter and more calm when you hold him but he hides a lot in the cage. Chewy is a spaz. Both kids say he's bitten them but he hasn't shown any inclination to bite me and I never saw any marks. When you hold him he is a mess, constantly on a mission to get down and explore. If he happens to get away from you he's hard to catch. 

Anyway we have to be super careful when we have "gerbil time" to have the dogs locked away.  We've got two terriers:

Poppy

one of them being a rat terrier.

Penny

 As you can imagine they have a high prey drive around the little guys. We don't typically have the cage on the ground unless the door is shut and we are going to play with the gerbils. However, its pretty funny to watch and the gerbils, well Chewy, is surprisingly brave. 

very sneaky

is that the crazy eye or what

"I promise, I just want to see whats in the bowl...that's it."

All and all they are pretty entertaining. We like watching them and surprisingly I even like holding little Bubbles.