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Pocket Pet Vocab 2
Pocket Pet Unit Vocab part 2 Gerbil - Chinchilla
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Agouti | Mixture of two or more colors |
| Jirds | Burrowing rodents with short bodies and hunched appearance |
| Kit (gerbil) | A young gerbil |
| Sire | Male / Dad |
| Dam | Female / Mom |
| Diurnal | Sleep during the night and active during the day |
| Hob | Intact male ferret |
| Jill | Intact female ferret |
| Gib | Neutered male ferret |
| Sprite | Spayed female ferret |
| Kit (ferret) | Young ferret |
| Kindling (ferrets) | Giving birth to ferrets |
| Mask | Black coloring around eyes on the face |
| Hoglet | Young hedgehog |
| Herd (hedgehog) | Group of hedgehogs |
| Self-anointed | Frothing at mouth, arching head back over shoulders, deposit frothy saliva on quills |
| Quills | Spines located over back and body |
| Kit (chinchilla) | Baby chinchilla |
| Litter (chinchilla) | Group of newborn chinchillas |
| Dust bath | Special dust substances they roll in to cleanse fur. It hydrates and cleans. |
| Offspring | Babies / children |