Gerbils can shed their tails when caught. It’s called a “tail slip” and it’s very painful.

lizards: this is my cousin

It was the gagging and the "please nooo, get it away" that made me fall out 😂😂😂

So when I was a kid, one of the first pets we had was a gerbil, and we didn't know about this trait. One day I'm playing with Santa (the gerbil), while my dad is watching us & my mom was out getting groceries. I was sitting on my dad's recliner & suddenly Santa decided to burrow into the chair, and I grabbed him by the tail to try to stop him. Off popped the tail. I ran screaming to my dad going "His tail came off, his tail came off!!" He told me to put it down & help him get the gerbil out of the chair. So we did that, rescued the gerbil & put him back in his cage. Well, I completely forgot about the tail, and my mom comes home from shopping & we just hear this blood curdling scream from the kitchen. My dad & I go running in & my mom is pointing in horror at the counter yelling "There's a tail on the counter!!!" 🤣🤣 Oops lol - also, Santa wasn't a super friendly gerbil before this incident, but he became unhandleable afterwards. As someone who has owned many other gerbils since then, we became much better educated owners very quickly, but I still feel bad for poor Santa. 🙈 Know your animals before you buy them for your kids, folks!! Or you'll learn lessons the hard way & the animal always pays as well.

Cool, geckos do that too

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this was funny

Don‘t some lizards do this too?

The reason for the screams and discomfort was sympathy pain.

At first I thought he just finished taking a dues

talk about giving up a part of yourself for your career- literally

He drops the flashlight but the gerbil is still in the light

It’s painful, for them, or us?

Aaaaaaaa

Tune in next time for more Weasel Cop 😂

Wait... the police swapped places at the end!

What animals are ghe police?

Well then. I’m glad my gerbils never had a reason to do that.

yo esperaba eso de las lagartijas

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"On it, we are tailing him as we speak."

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It doesn't grow back :(

i have a gerbil loll and i could defo see my second gerbil dean doing this

I used to have a million rubles, and I'm glad I didn't make any of them shed their tails but I think one of them tried to do it when one thought when somebody accidentally pulled their tail and then like, I think maybe it's trying to do it till slip

That was nasty and yet awesome!😅

Can they grow back?

This is actually wrong. What happens is worse. The skin comes off. Its so if a predator grabs on, it can give it the slip as a last-ditch effort.
The tail comes off after as the lack of skin causes blood-flow to cease and the tail dies and falls off later.

Bro I would start to cry 😭😭

You couldn't see that the officers switched places there for this is not real

Wait are y'all repping the Duprasi?! Tits!

I thought he was gonna poop

If that was me I would also be traumatized by how gross it is

AAYYYOOOOOOOO

That is the same with a lizard Fun fact

Even when traumatized, never leave a bro hanging

Yuck, yuck, yuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!¡!!!!!!!!!!!!!¡!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They’ll have to stay on his tail if they ever wanna catch him

So he gave them the "slip"?

Whattt

Did no one else realize that the cops swapped positions but never moved?

Cops were so threaten that they changed their spot at one point.

This happened to my gerbil that I had as a kid

I saw that joke coming and I appreciate it

The suspect is not, in fact, tailed. Not anymore

threatening squelches 😂

They didn't give the DE-TAILED info about the suspect

That’s how worms were made..

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa what 😂

''No, but he is tailed'' - Police 2023

So gerbils are like lizards?