When Mike was little, he had two <b>gerbils</b>, Brownie and Blackie (five
points if you can guess what colors they were!) as well as his
<b>bunny</b>, Nibbles (a female black netherland dwarf bunny). We don't
have any Gerbils now, but I'd like to try keeping them sometime in the
future, since I've never kept them.  I've heard that they are not
nocturnal like hamsters, so that's another good reason to try them.