>be me, 4
>get a gerbil you've been wanting
> it's your birthday
> be excited and bring it to your room
>play with it, squeeze it
>be a brain dead 4 year old, squeeze too hard
>eyes pop out, scream
>run out of room only to explain that you loved it so much it went
>10 years later, forget the incident
>ask for gerbil, get told no
>get told the story, traumatized
> 17 now, get another gerbil to try it out
> name it pops, 2 months in, going well
>pops escapes, search vividly
>find a week later, dead in wall
>ate rat poison
>mourn over 2 gerbils
>never get gerbil again, settle on dog
>mfw I remember the 2
>>2438707
My gerbil an heroed by getting into the washing machine
>>2438707
Sounds like you weren't taking good care of it anyway. Gerbils shouldn't even be kept alone, they're extremely social animals. Let me guess, it was living alone in a 5 gallon tank with a 5 inch wheel? I'd eat rat poison too. Also, underage b&. Anyway, please do research before you get pets. Even Gerbils don't deserve to live a shitty life at the hands of a rodent-squeezing teenager.