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=== Food: ===
The Mongolia gerbil is the most common to be kept as a pet. Gerbils learn a lot from their parents, favored foods

normally come from their mother. Gerbils normally eat:

~Vegetables

~Fruit

~Cereals and nuts 

~Herbs and flowers

~Pellets 

~Meats and insects

~Dairies

~Grass and hay

~Chewing snacks like :woodchips and wheat

Gerbils shred material for nesting, a mixture of rough grained woodchips and hay will be a perfect nest. 

They will gnaw on it too!