It is Spring Break! Yeah! While all the students are at home, drinking on a beach, or at least sleeping in their own bed, I am still on campus babysitting a variety of horses, cats, and an entire family of gerbils -- but getting paid for it I promise you! (Which is a good thing because I just totally bought two new horse show outfits for this spring!)
While I have no problem with the ponies, and not being a cat lady I can even handle the kitties, but the gerbil family -- while very cute, is extremely annoying at night when you are expecting to sleep and they are having an all night marathon on their wheel.
I drift off into sleep and the marathon begins .... First ebony, then baby 2, then ginger, then babies 1 and 3, -- ALL NIGHT LONG! Their mommy said if they get annoying to remove the wheel at night, but then I feel like I am ruining their lively hood and daily cardio exercise. Not to mention that mom and dad gerbil are geriatric and have lived already well passed their life expectancy. If I remove their wheel they will probably have a heart attack.
(Not to mention their mom put the fear of god in me when she left me instructions for their care it was very simple...
"Their names are....
Check their feed and water, only give em' a little if they need it...
Oh, and the old 2 are geriatric and if they happen to DIE put them in a plastic sandwich bag and throw them away....." (What a Life huh?)
I can only imagine having to dispose of a poor geriatic gerbil. Not my idea of a happy moment. But we are however, going to have to work out some sort of arrangent for my sleeping time. ie...the wheel closes at midnight!
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