Since it's some sort of a psycho/sexual thing for him, do you suppose that Richard Gere holds onto the "best" gerbils? Maybe he would keep them in jars of formaldehyde on his mantel so that he could look at them wistfully and recall, "Ahh, that Blinky...he was quite a gerbil." I don't know if he is sentimental or anything. Just sayin.