The only rat whose eyes haven't started to open yet is Thor. Congratulations, Nick, your rat is a slow developer.


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Half of the babies have names. Ras, you still need to choose one to name. Would anyone else like to name one?

Unnamed, all boys:

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Okay, so my sister, who's bred rats before, has sexed the babies. According to her there are 7 boys and only 1 girl. This makes me question her accuracy, but whatever. If you give one of them a boy's name and it ends up being a girl, well, so be it. Nothing wrong with transgender babies. Also I dropped one, so it may end up with an intellectual ( Read more... )

Today Kass says I may hold her babies. They are omg so tiny and hideous and adorable! They are naked and wrinkly and they can barely even crawl!

Here is a picture of one of them:

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Kass had her babies! At least 5 (I have pictorial evidence of such) but I think there were at least 6 or 7. Which means Nick was wrong. She was a good girl and put them in her bed instead of any place weird, which was a relief. She'd been pretty keen on getting the cover on the bottom of the cage up and chilling on the wire on the bottom before she ( Read more... )

My mum is looking up hotels because she's going to go stay in the Gold Coast for a few days, and she found one that says it is "gay friendly." Wtf does that even MEAN?

O yah, unrelated, but Kass is getting pretty pregnant. ETA on babies somewhere between Christmas and New Years probably.


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I'm not sure exactly what Mikah's problem is, but she does not like Kass. Kass is curious about Mikah, as she is in all things, and would happily make friends. However, whenever she tries to approach the cat, Mikah is just kinda like "Guh! Get away from meee!" I don't think she's scared of Kass. Possibly she just finds her irritating. I think she's ( Read more... )

I think my medication makes me want to bite people. I used to be on it, I used to want to bite people. I'm on it again and again I have people-biting urges. I mean, not savage bite-your-throat-out biting. Just, you know, nom nom upper arm. Friendly biting ( Read more... )

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I put Phoebe on the desk next to Kass' cage and let them socialise while I took some pictures. This picture pretty much sums up Kass' complete lack of fear:


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