Responsibility

Ma twisted my arm and is making me say this... But she has a point so you better listen with open eyes. ;)

When you have intact boys and intact girls in the same home, with unsuitable cages, there's bound to be accidents. Which when you think about shouldn't be called an accident because it's completely preventable.

Hold up y'all... I need to add, COME ON! boys love the girls, Ma! Please don't make me... I love girls why do you think we will do everything in our power to crawl out, chew out, take what ever escape route possible to reach those sweeties. Ok, yes, you have a point, we do produce a fairly large number of rats, but aren't 12 sweet baby rats just the cutest thing? What? ya, ok, so we can have even larger litters.... and ya, rattie babies grow up needing more space, needing more food, needing more time.

Ok. You win. If everyone allowed rats to keep having mistakes, there would be a great number of unwanted rats out there.

It's a good thing this one little rescue was brought into The Rat Shack, she gave birth today... those babies are safe but that means countless others will have to be turned away. :(

Please be responsible with your rats. They are not toys, they are not here for your pleasure, they are not your science project.

Love us as we love you.

Poop has hit the fan!

But if you're a rat, that's not necessarily a bad thing cause um, we sometimes need to eat those. hahaha, ok, so not so funny for you, but sure hit my funny bone. Wait, do we have a funny bone?

On with the poops... We met the sweet babies. Well, they are sweet to me but Nessie sure had a fit with them. She puffed up so big, you'd swear she spent quite some time in the dryer. She was going around looking for the babies but they were so fast, she couldn't catch up. She was yelling and cursing, we all had to get out of her way. Finally Ma grabbed her and flipped her over. She protested like a cat stuck in a tree, ok, bad metaphor but it works. But after she calmed down, she wouldn't leave Ma's shoulder. I guess she needed Ma to reassure her that all was well and the babies won't take over her life. We sure had a great laugh though, seeing her all banshee like. We continued teasing her in the cage for a while after. Good thing Nessie loves us. heehee

As for the babies. Wow, so much energy, so much fun. I tried to join in with them but they were a little scared of me. I'm like 10 times their size but I'm sure as time goes by, we will be great friends. Ma told me from now on we are having all our play times with these girls. SWEET!!!

But not so much for Nessie... *giggle*

The Water Bowl

We often get together at the water bowl. We chat about the importance of life like which veggie we are getting tomorrow and if our hair looks good or if we need to visit the cage barber. Once in a while, one of the girls will ask if we think she looks fat. Ya, don't answer that one!!

We used to have two water bowls. One on the top floor and one on the second floor. But for some reason, Ma replaced the second one with a bottle. It's not the same at the water bowl but we like it. It's good for drinking. It never runs out either like our water bowl.

Why does our water bowl run out? Ok, I'll rat it out... (hehe) Some of us like to swim and bathe in the water bowl. It gets dirty pretty darn quick. I love to dip my hands in the water bowl and drink the water, I also like to dip my head in the water bowl. It sure beats having to groom yourself with your tongue all the time. Do you know how much hair I have to clean? My tongue can only go so fast. But one quick dip, then use your arms to rub it all over and voila! All done. Yep, I skinny dip.

Now, we do have our practical jokesters... and let me tell you, I don't think it's funny. Just when I'm ready to go bathe in the water bowl, I see something floating in it. It's not our blocks, (sometimes it's yummy, soaked blocks) it's not our wood chews, it's not our ping pong balls or rubber ducky.... nope, it's a POOP!! Oh ya, I hear them laughing and rolling and giggling. It's not funny I tell you! I'll gladly take a bath with the blocks but I draw the line at poops.

Maaaa! time to change the water!!!

I found them!

By golly it's true! I found what was the cause of the sounds and smells, I found what was eating our food!

A couple of days ago, Ma rolled this cage into our play area. The smells were even closer than before. I finally got the courage to climb the stand and finally the cage. I know... I shouldn't be doing any climbing without my harness for fall protection safety, but there was no time to lose. I was so close.

Sebbie was right, GIRLS! Sweet, young, beautiful girls! I never knew they could smell so good. I so wanted to play with them, but the doors were shut. Ma said I had to be patient but soon enough we are going to play with them in our play yard together. Oh, I can't wait. They look like they can be a lot of fun.

Nessie found them too. She started freaking out and running all around the place yelling at the top of her lungs: 6!!! There are freaking 6 of them, ARG!!!! Poor Nessie.