My pet gerbil

yeah i agree nice cage and your gerbil looks just like my gerbil momiji.
Rats make WAY better pets to me. but that my personaly opinion. If you can properly care for a rat THEN GET ONE, instead of a gerbil. but its up to you.

(liberty sais hi)

no, they are social, very smart as well. has your friend had gerbils is what im wondering as you need to own them to know instead of reading it. its up to you though. i had 2 ratsand it smelt a little bit. another thing to consider is that is you cut yourself and a rats wee get on to it, it can cause illness and sometimes death.

my mums old boyfriends, (at the time when she went out with him) punched my gerbil on the head cos it bit him, and he killed it.

gerbils are much more nice and tho they may not be as smart as rats they are EXTREMELY smart. they are more social then rats...and rats are harder to care for

You should always keep them in pairs of 2.. Where I live, there is actually a law that forbids you to keep them alone.

Anyway, a real cutie this one, REH or Argente? ;)

rats ( Not sewer rats though ) are very clean and playful and smart. Gerbils aren't that dumb. Generally once u put a gerbil in a cage it wont want to leave that area. Gerbils VERY RARELY bite. unless of course they are treated very bad. Gerbils are also fun because they don't bite when u first get them either. Generally both of these animals have their ups and downs. But it is up to u. I personally own a gerbil. ( Not because i don't want a rat but because my mom and my aunt don't want rats )

They are social animals, they ARE smart.
But its your choice im sure its just beacause your friend has a rat.

Mine Past Away this Morning i Miss Him Like crazy. Cute gerbil btw