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Jaded Burnout
Jul 10, 2004


yarn for destruction

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Jack Trades
Nov 30, 2010


My potted rat.

The clay plates are really good for beating the heat.

Scholtz
Aug 24, 2007

Zorchin' some Flemoids

Do you ever put them in the fridge/freezer for them? It's an extra treat!

Jack Trades
Nov 30, 2010

Scholtz posted:

Do you ever put them in the fridge/freezer for them? It's an extra treat!

Yeah when it gets extra hot. It's been real bad here lately.

BrotherJayne
Nov 28, 2019

I put a half inch of water, some ice cubes and some frozen veggies on a baking pan for our dudes, when it gets real hot

Jaded Burnout
Jul 10, 2004


I used to go for frozen peas in a bowl of cold water.

Animal-Mother
Feb 14, 2012

RABBIT RABBIT
RABBIT RABBIT
My sighted ones would bob for frozen peas but my blind ones don't seem to detect them. Or they just don't want peas.

Jaded Burnout
Jul 10, 2004


Give peas a chance, you rats

Jack Trades
Nov 30, 2010



cumpantry
Dec 18, 2020


that huge loving eye. goddamn. so cute

Falstaff
Apr 27, 2008

I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.

cumpantry posted:

that huge loving eye. goddamn. so cute

I agree with you; I find rat eyes cute. But in my (purely anecdotal) experience of talking to people who don't like rats, their "shrimp eyes" are the #2 cited thing that makes them "creepy," right after their tails.

They're wrong, of course. Objectively.

Jack Trades
Nov 30, 2010

Those little beady eyes are super cute though. It's like they're small stuffed toys.

ShiroTheSniper
Mar 19, 2009

I see dead arrows.
Lipstick Apathy
Nice folds for my "Empereur de la Nudité" (French for "Nudity Emperor")

cumpantry
Dec 18, 2020

i would like to finally introduce my last of the trio: Swarm

he's a funny guy. bit rowdy...

but i think he loves his brothers

cumpantry
Dec 18, 2020

Falstaff posted:

I agree with you; I find rat eyes cute. But in my (purely anecdotal) experience of talking to people who don't like rats, their "shrimp eyes" are the #2 cited thing that makes them "creepy," right after their tails.

They're wrong, of course. Objectively.

weird, are they sketched out by deer too lol

Jaded Burnout
Jul 10, 2004


Deer are almost as flighty

BrotherJayne
Nov 28, 2019

Falstaff posted:

I agree with you; I find rat eyes cute. But in my (purely anecdotal) experience of talking to people who don't like rats, their "shrimp eyes" are the #2 cited thing that makes them "creepy," right after their tails.

They're wrong, of course. Objectively.

It always weirds me out when new rats figure out what part of you is a face, and they start turning their heads and locking eyes with you for a bit.

It's also super adorable tho

Jack Trades
Nov 30, 2010

I can't even with my little boy.

I just walked up to the cage, because I saw him staring at me, and then he spent several minutes alternating between excitedly crawling all around me and running away and hiding behind a thing until I moved my arm a little to quick and he ran away to the other side of the cage.
I have never seen a more anxious rat before.

Jack Trades
Nov 30, 2010



yeah actually they will
Aug 18, 2012
my girl chamomile passed recently so i've been spending more time with peppermint. here she is scratching herself and then nibbling her foot
https://i.imgur.com/CE0WHor.mp4

Jack Trades
Nov 30, 2010

Cutie pie

Jack Trades
Nov 30, 2010

One of my boys, the nasty one, walked up the the of the cage, pushed his nuts through the cage bars, looked me right in eye and pissed straight out the cage, all over the floor.

These rat bastards, I swear...

Jack Trades
Nov 30, 2010

BrotherJayne
Nov 28, 2019


Adorbs!

What sorta wood chip you using?


BrotherJayne fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Jul 24, 2023

Jack Trades
Nov 30, 2010

BrotherJayne posted:

Adorbs!

What sorta wood chip you using?

Aspen chips. They're pretty good but I think I still prefer my linen bedding. It works just as well but a little bit cheaper.


Love those little rat grabbies.

cumpantry
Dec 18, 2020



could you roll with this gang?

Jack Trades
Nov 30, 2010

What's their new single called?

cumpantry
Dec 18, 2020

Take Me Out (of this cage)

Falstaff
Apr 27, 2008

I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.

My girls aren't sure they like the changes I've been making to their play house.



I keep telling them that it's a work in progress, but they're not buying it.

Last Visible Dog
Jul 30, 2015

Last Visible Dog posted:


Our rats are having to contend with the fact that their favorite sleeping spot somehow doesn't fit all four of them anymore.

Follow-up: got a bigger teepee.



Yes, there's a 4th rat in there.

Jack Trades
Nov 30, 2010

The more squished together the rat pile is the better.

Jaded Burnout
Jul 10, 2004


My heart.

Jack Trades
Nov 30, 2010

My two boys are almost 1 now, so it's about time I got two more boys.




Should be picking up those two tomorrow.

Jack Trades
Nov 30, 2010

Jack Trades
Nov 30, 2010






Marshmallow and Alucard

BrotherJayne
Nov 28, 2019

Ah, the classic underside perch of the ratty bab

Jack Trades
Nov 30, 2010

BrotherJayne posted:

Ah, the classic underside perch of the ratty bab

I couldn't find him for almost an hour and I was getting panicked before I saw him Splinter Cell-ed up there.

Xeras
Oct 11, 2004

Only a few find the way, some don't recognize it when they do - some... don't ever want to.

Jack Trades posted:






Marshmallow and Alucard

Wow the grey hood with what I assume is pink eyes is something I haven’t seen before. How gorgeous!

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
I follow a youtube channel, FriendlyRatForecast, who posts videos, mostly shorts, of her rats and their antics. one of her original chaos potatoes, Cin, died from surgery complications after developing a cancerous tumor. She adopted two new rats from a friend, and planned on introducing them to the other two original rats, Cape and Cyclone, soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey7yne1gNdg

but she didn't realize she wasn't adopting two rats, she adopted two rats and 9 jellybeans. I am all too familiar with this surprise, but with hamsters. :allears:

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Jack Trades
Nov 30, 2010

Free friends.

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