My Pet Gerbils

It is no secret that I love all animals. I would have them all if I could. The only thing stopping me is money, and of course my parents. Occasionally they give in and let me have a new animal, but it always takes me begging constantly until they are absolutely tired of it. One of those times my parents decided to let me have a pet gerbil. Well they really should have said no to me on this one. Lets just say one led to many, until one point we had like twenty-one of them. It all started with what we thought to be sister gerbils. Turns out they were the opposite sex and we ended up with gerbil babies. By the way gerbil babies are not cute until they have hair grown on them. Since we had so many gerbils we thought it would be a great idea for my school to have a pair of gerbils as class pets. We even voted to have them named. The votes ended up being snowball and chewy. It was the only class pet that I have ever had, and I was so proud for it to be from my set of gerbils. At the end of the school year the gerbils needed a home to stay in and we didn’t exactly want to take them back along with all of our other gerbils, so one of my best friends Alex got to take them home for the summer. Meanwhile our gerbils became a problem. At first we didn’t know it was the gerbils fault. I just had a whole bunch of bumps over me that looked like bug bites. At first we thought it was bed bugs, but then come to find out it was these little red bugs that were attracted to our many gerbils. So my family unfortunately had to get rid of all the gerbils, because we did not want bugs running throughout the house. I was really sad, because I was really attached to some of the gerbils. I just wish it hadn’t gotten so out of hand. That way we could have kept at least some of the gerbils. Although then again I’m glad things went the way we did because I got to see baby gerbils. I got to see them grow up from the ugly pink stage, to the cute small furry stage, to a full grown gerbil. So I guess I wouldn’t have changed anything.