Alas we have had a death in the family.
Sandy the gerbil has gone to join his brother Jack (RIP Dec 2011) in the great gerbilarium in the sky.
I like to think of them running around with our previously deceased gerbils Flora and Laura. Or even -as we’re talking heaven- hopping around with Myron our daft old moggy or Jazz the horsedog (I’ll let a 2-year-old Miss M explain. Scan down to the portrait). Because if it’s heaven then everyone gets on right? We all evolve into higher beings. Just floaty souls rather than see-through versions of ourselves. Otherwise I can’t imagine a floaty cat not wanting to chase a floaty gerbil. And that would be a cat’s idea of heaven would it not?
Though I suppose if that was the case gerbils could have little floaty rocket packs and whizz away from the cats before they are grabbed by the floaty tail and dangled, yo-yo like, from a floaty paw.
Now how cool would that be?
NB: Cat’s would definitely not be able to wish themselves a bigger rocket pack or a huowge floaty net to catch the flying floaty gerbils as I reckon in heaven you only get what you might have wished/hoped for/deserved in life. So, gerbils would get to fly, cats would get to do handstands and I would get to be thin and svelte-like and have lovely thick not-falling-out floaty hair.
Hmmm, maybe I should go with the more embodied than disembodied version of heaven….
…nahhhh, I prefer the floaty soul version. Then maybe I would actually get to talk to my pets.
Oh and the NEW PETS part of this post?
We had NITS.
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January 21st, 2012 at 4:08 pm
Awww -RIP Sandy.
As far as nits – Nitmix. Gilda had them pre kindergarten, and that stuff is awesome.
January 23rd, 2012 at 11:04 pm
Thanks Syb. He was a very cool gerbil. As for the nits, I swear by the Nitty Gritty comb – yes it is really called that. It clears everything completely and is brilliant.
And now I am itching. Bugger.
January 21st, 2012 at 5:13 pm
Awwww poor Gerbil
Ewww to nits…..thankfully Chick hasn’t had them for about a year…..long may it continue!! xx
January 23rd, 2012 at 11:05 pm
Oh my bob yes Em, not nits for the chick. They are so annoying but M is just at that age I think. We didn’t have them at all last year as far as I can remember so I think we’ve done ok really. I hate them though. Hate hate.
January 21st, 2012 at 6:52 pm
You know I’m doing an MA in Christian Ministry at the moment? Well, our current module is Theology, so I will present this to the class and get you an answer…
January 23rd, 2012 at 11:06 pm
Oh please do lovely Iota. I need to know. (Tee hee)
January 21st, 2012 at 8:30 pm
They look like hamsters. Mind you, I’m not a gerbil expert. Sorry about your loss(es) too.
January 23rd, 2012 at 11:08 pm
Snort, thanks lovely. They are similar to hamsters but have tails and are (in our experience) friendlier, less bitey and less smelly than hamsters. They’re a type of desert rat if I’m remembering right, and they’re very pretty.
January 22nd, 2012 at 12:54 am
I believe every living creature goes to the here after and we all join our souls into one great mass of energy. Positive energy that is. I haven’t got it quite worked out, but I’m sure that gerbils are part of it too. They do have little souls, I bet.
January 23rd, 2012 at 11:09 pm
I think so too. I like that, ‘positive energy’ but I’m kind of hoping to be able to pick out my Gran too so fingers crossed.
January 24th, 2012 at 1:48 pm
I had gerbils growing up, I had a habit of killing them! We had nits too
January 24th, 2012 at 3:18 pm
Poor gerbil. Looks like he’s having fun up there though!