My boy is 7.
He wants Gerbils.
Is this a good pet?
Not sure he is old enough to appreciate the work that might be involved, even though I understand them to be pretty easy.
they are pretty easy to keep, i was quite a bit older when my sister and i got one each, from what i remember we had some wood things for them to chew on to stop their teeth getting to long and we learned to not have a plastic bottom cage, they chewed right through the bottom of the cage and escaped we got them back, also do not keep a cage near curtains as they will be chewed up as well.
i found them entertaining pets and rarely got a nip from them, they can be pretty fast though.
we had 2 cats in the house as well and nothing happened that way but we were careful to shut the gerbils room door etc especially if they were out the cage getting handled
im getting tempted to get some now