Rosie has been living with me for coming-up-to a year later this summer. She came from a lovely second owner with her sister, Mei. They are both friendly in the typical fancy rat way. While Rosie will often be the first to see if you have any sweeties for her that she can stash, Mei will tidily find all of the fattening seeds and nuts to stuff into ( Read more... )

Old man is still with us. Still my favourite rat in the world.


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On Friday I made the decision to have one of the two older rats, Nibbler, put to sleep ( Read more... )

Lately a few things have happened to me that were quite unpleasant or unpleasant for another creature.


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I have been pet sitting for guiltyin_design for the past few days and taking care of more species than I have ever thought could co-exist in one for at any one time. Currently the house has both Susie's pets and my own, meaning the house has: guinea pigs, rabbit, rats, cats and a gecko (and her crickets).

Bob and Beau

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I have a 65-page paper on something that I hope is interesting to read tonight to stay on track with my finish assignments before their due date plan for my final year of university. I'm tempted to whinge and say "I was just too BUSY to read the paper tonight" but that would be a lie. 65 pages of paper with a homework assignment for afterwards is ( Read more... )