Soo....um....let's talk critters ( Read more... )

The boys have figured out that the latch on their cage door does not latch very tightly. Yesterday Jen came in the back room and discovered Mikan poking around under the desk. She picked him up and looked up to find the boys' cage door open and all of them crawling around. Only Mikan made it to the floor, thankfully, and he stayed in the back room ( Read more... )

...my animals are so cute post. But I can't help it! They are ( Read more... )

Gave up on getting Mikan to get along with Momo & Ringo; got him a black dumbo friend instead, and they're getting along great ( Read more... )

Seems like all I ever post about these days is my rats! Oh well, gotta rant somewhere ( Read more... )

Momo scared the crap out of me. I'm cleaning cages today, I've had new boy, Mikan, in quarantine for two weeks or so now, I figure "Hey! While I'm cleaning, why not try and introduce Momo and Ringo to Mikan!"

Well, I've never had any trouble with intros, so I guess I was due. >_< First, I put Mikan in the bathtub (all intros take place in the tub ( Read more... )

I started feeding my rats a new homemade mixy thing with dog food (high quality, of course), cheerios, pasta, sunflower seeds, and unpopped popcorn (not the instant kind). MAN, they think they hit the jackpot (considering I'd been giving them the lab blocks that are all nutritionally complete etc. but boring as hell). I'm buying more stuff for the ( Read more... )

Took out girl rats to play on bed. Bent over to release them onto bed. Did a head count. OH NOES THERE ARE FOUR THAT ONE IS NOT A GIRL!! IT IS RINGO ( Read more... )

Ratties are fun. I had my girls out on the bed. Naturally, Bara, the shy/blind one (I'm reasonably certain that the reason she's so...I dunno if shy is even the right word, but she doesn't like going out and exploring so much as sitting in one spot doing nothing...anyway, is because she's mostly blind) sat in my shirt, alternating licking my chest/ ( Read more... )

I have a shirt full of rats. Two of them keep licking my stomach/collarbone/chest. Now I am wet and smell of ratties. Silly, silly ratties ( Read more... )