[Tachs]

I got my gerbil about a month ago. Well, actually, I had gotten two gerbils, but something horrible happened (involving the family dog and someone stupidly leaving my bedroom door open--when they shouldn't even have been in here), so now I only have one. When the dog got into my room, she completely destroyed his cage, and so he is now stuck in the carrier cage until I can get him a new tank (I'd been meaning to get him a tank, as it was, before the cage was destroyed.).

Well, I noticed, a few days ago, that he was missing a small, slightly circular patch of fur above his nose, no bigger than a plastic pinhead. Is this a sign of stress? Or is this something natural, that I may not have noticed before?

Since my camera is currently broken, I did a doodle of what it looks like:

[hammy]

Hello, Tachs.
No don't worry he is not stressed, if this has appeared since he has been on his own. Nearly all roden bite on the cage bars, as they do their nose pokes though and rubs on the bar above. This constant rubbing makes a little bald spot, this is known as barbering. If you watch him closley you will be able to observe this.