I had gerbils and a couple of chipmunks when I was little. I loved 'em.
Ahh gerbils. We bought two female gerbils when I was around ten years old. As it turns out, the two female gerbils were actually one male and one female... Needless to say, we had over 200 babies pass through that cage... We couldn't give them away fast enough. My dad ended up telling us that he took the extra 150 some to the pet store, presumably, as most ten year olds would believe, to let them sell them to other people. Two years ago (which would have been 14 years after the story) I found out that my dad was giving them to the pet store to use as snake food! lol. "I never lied to you, son." Betrayal!!!!
xvart.