Pictures and Introductions
It's been almost a week since I adopted my rats, and I promised that I would post some pictures of them. They've been settling in nicely. Irene and Mary are very outgoing, and will tolerate my picking them up, especially if I offer them a Cheerio when I do. Violet has actually been rather shy if the cage door is open, although she likes to run up to the bars whenever I talk, or move, or breathe loudly, etc. For the first few days she refused to take treats from my hand, and would wait until I had set it down and had removed my hand before grabbing them. Now she's willing to take them directly from my fingers, though she acts as if it's a huge imposition - she looks, and looks, and then very gently reaches out and pulls the snack away from me.
These are the three of them, when I first brought them home. Violet is on the left, Irene is in the middle, and Mary is on the right.
Here's Violet, the shy girl. You can see how she's eying the camera suspiciously. She has really interesting brown markings on her face and back, although from a distance you'd think she was a PEW.
I couldn't get a good solo shot of Irene, so here's one of her with her sisters again. Irene is tiny. You can really get a sense of the size difference in this photo. When I first visited the MSPCA last Saturday, she's the one who managed to squirm her way through the bars of a Ferret Nation and had to be corralled in a corner until they could get a cage with smaller bar spacing. She is Queen of the Cage and spends her time humping the others into submission. Like the others, Irene isn't fully PEW - she actually has very faint, light grey markings on her head and back that look like they would make her a black hooded, if they were darker.
This is Mary, formerly known as Millie (One-Eyed Millie, I would assume). She either lost her eye as a baby or it never developed properly, I'm not sure. She's fearless, and a total glutton - if she hears the Cheerio box a-crinkling, she comes running! You can see it better in the pic above this one, but she's also not wholly white - she has some brown, almost Siamese type markings on her face.
When my last boy rat died, I decided that I wasn't going to adopt any more rats for a while and I donated all my hammocks and fleeces to the MSPCA. I went to Joann Fabric's and built up my stash, and then went looking online for tutorials about how to go about sewing them, since my last ones were mostly trial and error. I had plans to use my mother's old sewing machine instead of hand sewing them, but the machine proved too wily for me. This page had the BEST tutorials I've seen - I've already started work on a couple of triangle ones! As you can see, this double decker also meets with their approval.
These are the three of them, when I first brought them home. Violet is on the left, Irene is in the middle, and Mary is on the right.
Here's Violet, the shy girl. You can see how she's eying the camera suspiciously. She has really interesting brown markings on her face and back, although from a distance you'd think she was a PEW.
I couldn't get a good solo shot of Irene, so here's one of her with her sisters again. Irene is tiny. You can really get a sense of the size difference in this photo. When I first visited the MSPCA last Saturday, she's the one who managed to squirm her way through the bars of a Ferret Nation and had to be corralled in a corner until they could get a cage with smaller bar spacing. She is Queen of the Cage and spends her time humping the others into submission. Like the others, Irene isn't fully PEW - she actually has very faint, light grey markings on her head and back that look like they would make her a black hooded, if they were darker.
This is Mary, formerly known as Millie (One-Eyed Millie, I would assume). She either lost her eye as a baby or it never developed properly, I'm not sure. She's fearless, and a total glutton - if she hears the Cheerio box a-crinkling, she comes running! You can see it better in the pic above this one, but she's also not wholly white - she has some brown, almost Siamese type markings on her face.
When my last boy rat died, I decided that I wasn't going to adopt any more rats for a while and I donated all my hammocks and fleeces to the MSPCA. I went to Joann Fabric's and built up my stash, and then went looking online for tutorials about how to go about sewing them, since my last ones were mostly trial and error. I had plans to use my mother's old sewing machine instead of hand sewing them, but the machine proved too wily for me. This page had the BEST tutorials I've seen - I've already started work on a couple of triangle ones! As you can see, this double decker also meets with their approval.