When do you know if your gerbils are going to die?

Answer 1

Gerbils can die like humans like from an illness such as: Tyzzers Disease, Cancer, Lumps in the Abdomen (common in males as I've had an experience of a gerbil with one that died a week later) Theres tons of ways a gerbil can die. I'd research it.

Answer 2

Gerbils die for many reasons, from old age, cancer, all the problems we can have. Unfortunately one of my gerbils died from a neighbors dog grabbing it (when I was playing with him outside) and running with him in his mouth, luckily we got him back before he was eaten though. So be careful with your gerbils.

Answer 3

I had gerbils as a kid. One day I noticed Romeo digging like mad, I looked away to play with my polly pockets or something, when I looked at him again he was on his back, little legs up in the air at the bottom of his little self-dug grave. A few weeks later I noticed his mate Juliet digging. Yep you guessed it, she too dug her own grave. They had good long lives and many babies.

TL;DR? In my experience, they begin digging a little grave for themselves. It isn't normal gerbil-digging. You'll know it when you see it.

Answer 4

Three years old or less.

- GerbilExpert

Answer 5

For the same reason humans die.

Answer 6

mallets land on them