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I've had all sorts of rodents in my life. Once, while having two rats and one hamster in separate cages, the more affectionate rat would break out of his cage for the sole purpose of getting in the hamster cage and cuddling 
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Back in the Spring, my wife and I visited a local sanctuary for abused farm animals- Ralphy's Retreat. I forgot to post up the photos in this here thread, so here's the Imgur gallery if anyone wants to take a look. We'll be returning to the sanctuary in the near future to help them build some new enclosures and sheltering for the animals (occupancy at the sanctuary is growing at an alarming rate), so if there's any interest we'll post up more piggy photos once we go back there for a work day.
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Inzombiac posted:I've had all sorts of rodents in my life. According to wikipedia, rats that escape their cages in lab tests will stick around to help others get out of their own, and when presented with the option to share food, most will do so almost reflexively. They're pretty great.
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bobjr posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LMgkGesoVI That's amazing. When I saw the thing with the eyeglass case I said "YOU'RE SHITTIN' ME!"
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An internet acquaintance of mine maintains a hamster blog. One of her favorite little guys died recently, and I was reminded of this funny post involving him from a while back:quote:So, last week we went out of town for 4 days. We arranged to have a pet sitter come over to check on the hamsters while we were out of town so that we could be assured everyone would be alright. As we always do, we also attached a water bottle to the leg of a table, and left out a bowl of food just in case there was an escape. We assumed an escape wouldn't happen since it has probably been about a year since our last minor escape, but better safe than sorry. RIP, George.  
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Nov 15, 2015 22:15
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bobjr posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LMgkGesoVI Oh wow, that was amazing and adorable! My favourite part was the hopping when one fetched the pink ball
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Could you link to the blog, I think I'd like to post that on Facebook to make things slightly happier after the last few days.
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Nov 15, 2015 22:26
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My roomie has to do community service, and thanks to this thread, I suggested he work with some animals. This lead to him rescuing one dog from some hoarder down in Detroit that overbred her, and a four month old little boy from Detroit Animal Control that got shut down for being horrible monsters. He was skin and bones, bad hips, and breathing problems from spending most of his life locked in a cage. Becky is a pit bull/collie mix, and Ash is some sort of all black pit mix. Both are doing so much better under our care. We were worried that the dogs would have behavioral problems, but they're so loving and well behaved it's amazing. So, thanks again for helping inspire us to foster these dogs. May your days be filled fat cats and capybaras.
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Josef bugman posted:Could you link to the blog, I think I'd like to post that on Facebook to make things slightly happier after the last few days. This is the main blog: http://thepipsqueakery.org/ This is that post on their Facebook page, which I couldn't find on the blog: https://www.facebook.com/thepipsqueakery/posts/858929367451826
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bobjr posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LMgkGesoVI All of these are my favorite.
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Let's talk scratch arches: These are wonderful devices, they provide a cat with stimulation, and allow them a way to take care of all of their itchies at onces. Like this:  We happen to have an arch in our house. Our forever cat, Monty, has ignored the arch because he is a good catte. Butterscotch on the other hand has been studying it intensely for the past several weeks, from afar at first. He wouldn't get near it at all... Until today.  Some up close, Purr Reviewed (sorry) studying AND GO!  A noble effort. Butterscotch has a had a nice weekend, he hung out on our deck:   Snoozed on our couch:  And had a screen test:  Maximum Flatness A screen test for what you may ask? Well, we burried the lead. Fine goons, I present to you.. Butterscotch, live in the cat room https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux5YX33E2lY Those vocals.... 
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Goddamn, I had a rat in high school and she was really sweet. I never though I'd get another, but that video makes me wish I had one again.
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I love how Butterscotch's shape varies so much from "spherical" to "pillow shaped". I also like your usage of Stock Photo Cat to compare and contrast. mycot has a new favorite as of 03:50 on Nov 16, 2015 |
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Chili posted:
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Chili posted:
It's a pillow, it's a pet, it's a pillow pet! 
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Nov 16, 2015 03:54
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Wanna make fat waves with that cat.
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Nov 16, 2015 03:57
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I'm glad you all appreciate that picture. He is very apprehensive about being photographed in that manner. He actually doesn't really like the camera all that much and gets a little jumpy around it, I've disable the flash which has seemed to help.
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What's with the dedicated cat room anyway? I've not been around any cat owners for a long time but I've never seen anything like that.
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Hakkesshu posted:What's with the dedicated cat room anyway? I've not been around any cat owners for a long time but I've never seen anything like that. It's just 'cos we foster. It ends up being the "foster cat room". When we get a new cat/cats they typically need to spend about a week away from our cat. He especially needed to because he had a contagious upper respiratory infect. Now, he only really eats in there. Otherwise, he roams the house freely.
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pookel posted:An internet acquaintance of mine maintains a hamster blog. One of her favorite little guys died recently, and I was reminded of this funny post involving him from a while back: Aww, poor George he had a good life as a ladies' hamster though so not all bad, what a cute little fuzzball I was on YT looking at old commercials and ran across an old favorite Mastercard one - so simple and the music is perfect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cNDSPutas8
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Maggie Fletcher posted:Goddamn, I had a rat in high school and she was really sweet. I never though I'd get another, but that video makes me wish I had one again. The only reason I don't have any now is because my GF convinced me to get guinea pigs. Plus, they generally only live for a couple years.
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little girl can't stay mad with squeaky shoes on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np8V9xdRsP4 guy is blown away by the fact that chickens float https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiR9wqxYvDo
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Inzombiac posted:The only reason I don't have any now is because my GF convinced me to get guinea pigs. Good news! You can also teach Guinea pigs fun tricks! http://youtu.be/esONT_AB_u8
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Chili posted:It's just 'cos we foster. It ends up being the "foster cat room". When we get a new cat/cats they typically need to spend about a week away from our cat. He especially needed to because he had a contagious upper respiratory infect. Now, he only really eats in there. Otherwise, he roams the house freely. Chiming in to note that this is actually the "right" way to add any new cat to an existing-cat home (contagion or no), just kinda chucking a new arrival into a shared space makes old+new cattes less likely to get along. Source: lots of reading up on the subject before I got a second cat, then 100% successful phased introduction which has culminated in Groomin' Buddies status (Note: it's difficult when your apartment is effectively 1 huge space and 1 other room...)P.S. bless you for expending the time/energy needed for fostering, Chili. Wish we had the time/energy(/space) for it ourselves.
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Norse Code posted:little girl can't stay mad with squeaky shoes on  x lots
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Instant Jellyfish posted:It's a pillow, it's a pet, it's a pillow pet! I am having a crap day, as a helicopter parent has flown into my life this morning and short of nuking her from orbit, I am wasting a precious, precious research day fending her off. That said, these pictures made me go, 'I have one of those!'  Mr Boods bought me a dog because a few years back I completely threw out my back and needed lumbar support in the car and on a long Tube train ride. He's got a sheep that's supposed to serve the same duty, but sometimes I find him soundly asleep on the sofa clutching his tatty sheep like a teddy
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pookel posted:An internet acquaintance of mine maintains a hamster blog. One of her favorite little guys died recently, and I was reminded of this funny post involving him from a while back: The Pipsqueakery seem like such good people, George had a great life  Hamsters-in-cups is another great tumblr for any ham fans 
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melon cat posted:We'll be returning to the sanctuary in the near future to help them build some new enclosures and sheltering for the animals (occupancy at the sanctuary is growing at an alarming rate), so if there's any interest we'll post up more piggy photos once we go back there for a work day. MORE HOGS
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Norse Code posted:little girl can't stay mad with squeaky shoes on These both put a huge smile on my face. bitprophet posted:Chiming in to note that this is actually the "right" way to add any new cat to an existing-cat home (contagion or no), just kinda chucking a new arrival into a shared space makes old+new cattes less likely to get along. Source: lots of reading up on the subject before I got a second cat, then 100% successful phased introduction which has culminated in Groomin' Buddies status My fiancee, katdicks really does get the credit. She was the one who signed up with the spca and got all of the training. It does end up being a fair bit of work on both of our parts, but for me, it's energizing. Waking up for me is a lot easier when I have small little tasks to do that have to get done. It gets me started on a better path each day.
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Do we know how Butterscotch ended up spherical? Or is it a mystery.
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painted bird posted:Do we know how Butterscotch ended up spherical? Or is it a mystery. He ate a balloon and now they're just waiting for it to deflate  more seriously Chili posted:We also found out that he was the pet of an older woman who essentially just fed him everything off her plate. So yeah, don't do that, or you end up with a cat like this:
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Chili posted:Butterscotch, live in the cat room
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painted bird posted:Do we know how Butterscotch ended up spherical? Or is it a mystery. Remember all those stories your parents told you about eating watermelon seeds? Well... Also that chicken floating video rules, someone needs to make a chicken bumper boats game
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I just wanted you to know that no matter how many times I read his real name, to me Butterscotch will always be Blubberscotch.
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 Uh oh, they're getting friendlier. Chili has a new favorite as of 21:54 on Nov 16, 2015 |
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This is art.
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Chili posted:
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