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This happened to me when I was little. First off, tell your brother to never, ever grab any animal WHATSOEVER by its tail. Maybe he's little, and that's cool, good thing this happened to a gerbil which has that defense mechanism. Good time to learn the lesson, I know that's when I learned it.
Second, the tail is an open would. It can easily get infected since, you know, gerbils piss everywhere and whatnot. If you want to keep it, take it to the vet. As far as my gerbil's case, they gave me a cream for the tail and some antibiotics with an eye dropper to give them to him. He chewed on the dropper but at least he took the meds.
The tail won't grow back, ever. A kind of skin will form over it, but it's pretty transparent, so it'll just look red and a little puffy. Some hairs may start growing but they'll never grow enough to really cover it up again. What to do from there's up to you.
tl;dr version, teach your brother to wise up and take it to the vet if you want to keep it.
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