There are struggles in my rat cage. The struggles are a bit about food, though only about the tasty bits, and about water, although only about who gets to drink first. The struggle is also for the attention of a certain lady. The rats know her to be the sole dispenser of that one guilty pleasure: yoghurt-drops. When I come near the cage, with ( Read more... )

I love dogs. I really do. I like small dogs, medium dogs and big dogs, the size of a plush toy or a calf, I like dogs. I don't like some owners though ( Read more... )

Things changed. I now have no gromet in my ear, two adult rats less, one baby rat more and two wisdom teeth in a tin.
( Right ear saga )

( Another picture of Kwikzilver )

( Baby pics! )

Monster died again today. Only this time, on national TV where apparently, a dying rat undergoing tries at reanimation is sensational and warrants 'ER music' in the background ( Read more... )

Remember thisPoor mommy got a C-section. 7 live and 2 stillborn babies were in her womb, and she got a hysterectomy immediately too. One of the dead babies was blocking the birth channel ( Read more... )

Like an expecting father in those old-fashioned films, pacing anxiously just outside the delivery room his wife is in, I restlessly try to find things to occupy myself with. My usually already short attention span is further upset by the hope for news, any news, about the impending birth of what I hope will be my new pets. Go, Mommy Rat, go ( Read more... )

Hopefully tomorrow the baby-rats will be born. The mother rat looks like she swallowed a tennis ball whole, I saw a picture. She went from 320 gram the 29th to a whopping 435 yesterday, the rattery estimates about 11 babies will be born. Please let the litter have six boys, with two for me... and of course: good luck mommy rat, stay healthy and may ( Read more... )

Tomorrow will probably be the funeral of Monster. I comfort myself by thinking about the young rats I hope will soon be born at the breeder I spoke with. If there are enough males in the nest (at least six) and the nest will be born (fingers crossed for that too), I will be the proud rat-mommy of Iota and Ingmar, from Rattery Ruby ( Read more... )