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smokingboot) wrote2004-05-20 10:25 pm
smokingboot) wrote2004-05-20 10:25 pm
A little death
One of Freak's latest litter has gone.
She booted its corpse up to the surface. Can't have died too long ago, or she'd have eaten it; gerbil moms very seldom eat their young unless the little ones cop it, and then they chow down on the bod so the smell won't attract predators to the nest.
It was cold when I picked it up. I tried massaging its little heart back to life for some time, but it is thoroughly and irretrievably dead. Nature's way I suppose.
I buried it in the lemon tree pot.
She booted its corpse up to the surface. Can't have died too long ago, or she'd have eaten it; gerbil moms very seldom eat their young unless the little ones cop it, and then they chow down on the bod so the smell won't attract predators to the nest.
It was cold when I picked it up. I tried massaging its little heart back to life for some time, but it is thoroughly and irretrievably dead. Nature's way I suppose.
I buried it in the lemon tree pot.
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These dudes reproduce so fast and so prolifically, I guess if it wasn't for hawks, snakes and the loss of weak infants we'd all be living on planet gerbil!
I see the sense in it, it's just a wee bit sad that's all.