Humans breast feeding animals
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Our recently acquired tyrannosaur babes (actually they are baby gerbils, but look like a roaring ferocious t-Rex when they yawn) currently have no fear of humans. They get plenty of milk from their mother, but still suckle around looking for milk when being handled by people.
The completely fearless, "run into your hand and curl up and go to sleep" personalities gradually give way to a gerbils individuality, preference to fall asleep in a nest and not in a hand, but at the moment the baby gerbils are as happy sleeping in a human hand nest as they are in their own nest, they don't differentiate.
We all love our pets for different reasons, I like to tame our gerbils and close the gap between having a pet which wants to leap out of your hand to run around, VS a pet which will jump into your hand to find food or just to say hello.
I make no apologies for the thread title, but GF's daughter would be happy to bottle feed them. Extra milk formula. But where to get a bottle that small?
Currently, the babies don't differentiate between humans and other gerbils, which is brilliant. Without putting on a false gerbil snout, ears and whiskers, is it possible to extend this trust so that we remain to be seen as second mothers, throughout their lives, by feeding them milk when they want it?
I ask of course so they'll be calm sleeping on my wrist when I go out, I'll be the only bloke in town with a genuine gerbil watch. Plus ill also be able to convince the BBC to stump up £1m for my "Gerbil Whisperers" series (actually just a fleet of new Lambos for me, with gerbils in cages on the passenger seat).
The completely fearless, "run into your hand and curl up and go to sleep" personalities gradually give way to a gerbils individuality, preference to fall asleep in a nest and not in a hand, but at the moment the baby gerbils are as happy sleeping in a human hand nest as they are in their own nest, they don't differentiate.
We all love our pets for different reasons, I like to tame our gerbils and close the gap between having a pet which wants to leap out of your hand to run around, VS a pet which will jump into your hand to find food or just to say hello.
I make no apologies for the thread title, but GF's daughter would be happy to bottle feed them. Extra milk formula. But where to get a bottle that small?
Currently, the babies don't differentiate between humans and other gerbils, which is brilliant. Without putting on a false gerbil snout, ears and whiskers, is it possible to extend this trust so that we remain to be seen as second mothers, throughout their lives, by feeding them milk when they want it?
I ask of course so they'll be calm sleeping on my wrist when I go out, I'll be the only bloke in town with a genuine gerbil watch. Plus ill also be able to convince the BBC to stump up £1m for my "Gerbil Whisperers" series (actually just a fleet of new Lambos for me, with gerbils in cages on the passenger seat).
Humans breast feeding animals...
I had a different image to what the op explained.
Ask here they should be able to help
http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/forum.asp?h=0...
I had a different image to what the op explained.
Ask here they should be able to help
http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/forum.asp?h=0...
I saw the thread title and knew who the OP would be. 
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