siberian gerbils ??

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Thank you very much...Here's my story. Six years ago we were given two ,"siberian gerbils, both were males",& a week later we had eight & then it seems but a short time later we had twenty-one & then we made a decision and took them all to a grassy field by the edge of the woods by our house,where they all rapidly and happily dispersed.I had at times thought about their chanches for survival & then last summer we saw a woody spotted gerbil,(hamster?),basking in the sun in our garden.I'm thinking that hamster/gerbils are not native to San Juan Island,Washington and there might be some survivors from preditors and hardships of living wild.
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All right then,thank you for the information.could you please tell me that perhaps they gather food and store it for the winter?
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Are there siberian gerbils? Do they hibernate?
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I have never heard of siberian gerbils, only siberian hamsters and gerbils don't hibernate.
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gerbils gather food and do store it in their nest.

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Did the pets that you had have long tails? Gerbils have long slender tails with a little bit of fur and hamsters have really short stubby tails that you can barely see. Gerbils and hamsters aren't native to the United States. Gerbils live about 2-4 years while hamsters live 2-3 years. That's a cute story. I've known people to set hamsters free and other people find them and take care of them. Someone may have seen a few and adopted them as their own.