Soft fruit such as banana is very popular. Biscuit who unfortunately died recently survived for the last year of her life with one front tooth. We just took her down the vets every 3 weeks and had it trimmed and fed her crushed food. She was quite bright and had worked out not to try to gum her food but to shove it in the back of her mouth and chew with her back teeth. Scent Gland Tumours.
Male gerbils have a bald patch of dry skin in the middle of their tummy.
This should normally be flat and dry although you can feel the scent gland as a small flat lump. These tumours can be removed successfully by an experienced vet. We have had 8 male gerbils operated on. 5 survived the operation and went on to live for anything up to 18 months afterwards. Two were put down during the operation because the cancer turned out to be more extensive, one was the second attempt on a tumour that came back and the other one had an additional external tumour that caused the problems.