lol well seeing as a gerbils tail is a defence mechanism and the end slides right off(sometimes messier then others) its no suprise she did fine with a stub of a tail, I have had it happen before myself, my first gerbils tail came off and at the time we had no idea that this was not a horrable thing so we freaked out, but now I know its normal and the reason you are supposed to pick them up by the base of their tail lol one of my females acually came to me with a stubby tail, her name? Stubby.. creative eh?