So Many Buddies...

  When I first moved out of my first mommy's place, I was a little worried. I had so many sisters, brothers and cousins, I thought I would be so lonely. But there was already a whole bunch of new buddies waiting for us. Not to mention, that my 1 brother, 2 sisters and 4 cousins came with me.  We met Prue, a mommy herself, she took care of us and her daughters became our sisters. And then, we met more buddies. 3 rambunctious boys, Ma calls them the Romeos, Sebbie the boss man and Captain the shy loner. I know we must get on some of the older rats' nerves with all our playing, jumping and screaming but sometimes they join in and play with us too. We live in a huge home now, it's a double up FNs, it opens up right onto the floor, I think that's so cool cause then we can escape so easily when Ma opens up the doors to clean up. Our play area is just so cool, I always want to go play. Since Ma put us all together, we've been getting over 2 hours of play time a day. How cool is that!! But then, we so deserve it, right? Cause I'm a princess. :)

 

Forgiveness

Ever wonder why moms and dads are quick to forgive? It's actually a work of art. I've seen some of the worst bites and yet the hoomins always end up forgiving. This is a sweet deal I think. Of course we can't help ourselves, sometimes we get scared, stressed, surprised or we jump on a potential treat that for some cruel reason wasn't actually there. Along with that forgiveness though, can come a price. I've seen some of the boys lose part of their boyhood after a bite. heehee Well of course they probably deserve it, they certainly do become nicer after it all.

But in the end, I so enjoy our hoomins, they are so easy to please, all you have to do is run and hop, run and hop, they call it popcorning. Whatever they want to call it, it sure makes them laugh, so I think we'll continue to do that, especially if it means they will forgive our inquisitiveness, especially when checking out toes, ear lobes and sometimes lips. We do know when we have gone too far cause the hoomins let out this blood curdling shriek. Makes me giggle each time.

So far, I've been good... I don't nip, bite or even rest my teeth on any part of my Ma. But I sure have been eyeing those toes of hers, I'm just waiting for the sock things to come off. *evil grin*

Downstairs

My litter mates and I live with some older girls. I don't know who they think they are but they try to make us live in the bottom part of the cage. I said, NO WAY! Ok so I shouldn't be so mean and say all of them do it, mostly Minou, Sara and Julia. Those three girls are a little older than us and they think they are so cool and all that. But me and my posse, we went upstairs and took over the place. heehee

My posse would be my sisters Sheela and Blue, my brother Jack, half brothers Jet and Jude, half sisters Bunny and Roxanne. No wonder they didn't stand a chance.

And if that wouldn't have worked, I would have Ma help me out. She's so easy to manipulate, all I have to do is scream. haha! It works every time. I go upstairs... Minou will get all huffy on me, she will try to push me down the stairs so what I do is stand very still in an odd way like have a arm up in the air and a leg, then start squealing real loud. Ma comes running and gets all mad at Minou, pulls her out of the cage gives her a good talking too. You should see Minou's face. She's all like worried and trying to tell Ma she didn't even do anything. Ha! So now when Minou is being mean with me, she runs and hides if I scream.
I'm just having too much fun!

Oh and I'd like to thank my fans out there who repeated after me in the last post. So now... you have to say: you are the best Anna Banana!

I love my fans!

A curtesy will do...

My Ma asked me to start publishing my thoughts even though there's nothing in it for me, unless of course it will give me new admirers. I'm a princess you know and everything must go according to my specs. So repeat after me... there is nothing sweeter than me. I'm all that you need, you want to give me all your love. Right. Now that's done, I'm off for my beauty sleep. Well, you can't blame me to have little words, I'm only 2 months old you know. Sheesh... you love me right? ;)

Treat July 16 07 -- June 23rd 08

Treat left me yesterday... he really tried but in the end, his body couldn't take it anymore.

I've had Treat and his brothers since they were 4 weeks old. They were the sweetest bunch. At 6.5 weeks old, there was a freak happening to Sheep, while playing, his jugular was nicked and he bled to death.

So it was Boo and Treat from then on. Treat was a joker, a player... the fun guy at the party. Most rats loved him, he wanted to be everyone's buddy. He welcome the new rats readily, as long as they were in for a good game of tag.

Early June, Boo became sick, a mysterious illness has plagued the jorats home. Boo died within 24 hours.

Two weeks later, it was Treat. He's gone.

I will miss my Treat, my fuzzy little guy with the twinkle in his eye.

Have fun Treat... the world is now yours.

 

More illness...

This is Ma now... Treat is very sick. On Saturday, I found my darling boy Radar gone. He had been bleeding, he went quick.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then Sunday morning, poor Treat started to bleed. He started to get worse and worse, he bled and awful lot. I was sure he wouldn't make it through the night. He's hardly eating.

He was brought to the vet this morning. The prognosis is guarded. She offered to have him put to sleep right there. I look at my Treat, decided that we both are going to fight for this. I'm not ready to let him go to his brothers... He's still mine right now. And I need him so much. So she pumped him full of fluids and gave him a shot of dex.

Fight my little Treat... fight like mad Baby. 

Illness...

There's been something going around us and it's made Ma very worried. We are worried too. My best buddy, my cuddle partner, my brother has died from it. I will miss my Boo bro. We heard that an old rat has died too. Her name was Mielle. She was 38 months old. I sure hope I can live that old. My Boo won't, that much I know. But the vet told my Ma that she thinks it was a virus and that is has done it's course because nobody else is getting sick now.

This is definitely a lesson to learn. All rats carry their own mixed bags of germs, bacteria and other undesirables. So it's really common sense to quarantine your rats. Sure hematuria is not a common symptoms of a contagious infection, but if that rescue April would have been quarantined, we may never have gotten sick. So we just never know...

Don't take a chance, keep us healthy, make sure all new rats are quarantined and healthy before they settle into the colony.

Boo is missed by all of us. He was a great rat, he was friends with everyone. Not even Nessie would bully him cause he was just so lovable.

Be free Boo and Mielle, we will meet again.