We have baby gerbils.
We are on our second batch.
Anybody want a gerbil. or 4?
So here is the story: In August, I went to the pet store and bought each of my children a gerbil--that would be 2 gerbils.
I ask them, "Are these males or females???"
They reply, "We don't know."
Several weeks later, there appear 7 baby gerbils in the gerbil cage. Turns out we had a male and a female.
So I started reading about gerbils, and what I learned is this:
do not remove the male from the cage because the female needs him to help her raise the babies. She may have big problems if left alone--like maybe EAT the babies. The only other option is to have an older female daughter in there with her.
We did not have an older female daughter.
Then I learned that the female can get pregnant within ONE day of having baby gerbils.
So, less than 6 weeks later (which was about 2 weeks ago)--guess what was in the gerbil cage?
5 more babies.
I mean--we like animals at my house: we have 5 cats, 2 dogs, 1 pony, 5 ducks, 10 chickens, 1 rabbit. But we have tooooooo many gerbils.
Anyone?
"There was only one hope for me—that the infinite wisdom of God might make a way for the love of God to satisfy the wrath of God so that I might become a son of God."--Dr. John Piper