Fat-tailed Gerbil - Ailments

Ailments

A healthy fat-tailed gerbil has bright eyes, is lively, and has a soft coat. Their behind is dry and clean. Sick fat-tailed gerbils get lethargic and are not lively. Preventing is always better than curing, especially for small rodents, such as the fat-tailed gerbil. It's not always easy to cure a fat-tailed gerbil. Fat-tailed gerbils are so small that even a vet won't always know how he must treat the animal. For fat-tailed gerbils can catching a cold be very dangerous and even fatal. The biggest threats for a fat-tailed gerbil are draught and moisture, but also too high temperatures, wrong or bad food, and stress can lead to health problems. There is not much known about diseases of fat-tailed gerbils, because this small rodent has not been kept as a pet that long and often. But small rodents have generally the same ailments. An ailment that relatively often can be seen in fat-tailed gerbils are bite wounds at their tail, because fighting fat-tailed gerbils try to bite in each others thick tail.