For many years we have both volunteered in the UK for an animal rescue charity, fostering Mongolian Gerbils and small pets waiting to be adopted into their forever homes.

While there’s a lot of information on the internet about Gerbil care, this can often be conflicting, outdated and incorrect. To make things worse many Pet Shops give bad advice and sell completely unsuitable products and housing. Originally, when re-homing Gerbils to potential adopters or answering questions from the general public, we needed to give them good advice, and while we had our own fact sheets, we found there were only a few websites we could confidently link to. Many websites give good advice on some topics and then promote unsuitable housing (tiny hamster style cages, plastic, wire flooring, etc) and other bad practice (exercise balls, small wheels with open rungs, use of sawdust, wood-shavings etc). We wondered why websites would publish “The best Gerbil housing” reviews, and then promote dreadful cages and products, until we realised they are affiliated with suppliers and make money out of doing this! Exasperated, we took action and created our own website, which reflects the rehoming standards of our Rescue, and best practice we have learned through years of experience and from many Gerbils. We focus on where to source items (with links), step by step we show you how to construct suitable tanks, find suppliers, accessories and other practical advice which is often what you need, but is hard to find. We want you and your Gerbils to get the best from each other. As this website has become popular, we are regularly updating with sources, and additional information.

Please note, we are not affiliated to any products in this website, we only recommend products that we use and that benefit your Gerbils welfare.

All Gerbils pictured are rescues, and Gerbils we have personally fostered, re-homed or owned (and loved).

This website is regularly updated and find us (newly and adding content when we find time!) on Instagram Instagram – gerbilcare.co.uk