Posted in Behaviour, Bo, Healthcare, My Rats on June 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Beau bit me! Pretty hard - he definitely meant it. I was cleaning the boys out Monday afternoon and was halfway through putting the bedding back in the cage when beau jumped in, so I put my hand in take him out and he turned round and bit me. It bled a lot, so I wrapped [...]
Posted in Behaviour, My Rats, photographs on June 22, 2008 | No Comments »
As promised - the pic of the mess the girls made with the wound powder:
And no, it doesn’t help that i’m such a scruff bag and leave stuff lying around. That small area of desk is a bit tider now as I had to move stuff to clean up!
Posted in Behaviour, My Rats, Sugar, Treacle on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »
No, the girls haven’t suddenly got style conscious, they’re just being their usual destructive selves.
I have (had) a little tub of antiseptic wound powder on my desk in the rat room. It’s very good stuff that you can just dab a little of on a wound and it helps dry up the wound and aids [...]
Posted in Behaviour, My Rats, photographs on April 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
…. so they can snuggle together in a big heap like this: (there are at least 7 girlies in that pile)
Posted in Behaviour, Healthcare, My Rats, photographs on April 11, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve been back since Tuesday actually, but have been busy doing not a lot! The rats all managed without me (of course) though i like to think they were pleased to see me on my return. My OH coped perfectly well and I think quite enjoyed looking after them.
Burmickity is unfortunately still not right, though [...]
Posted in Behaviour, Breeding, Healthcare, My Rats on March 23, 2008 | No Comments »
…. escaping that is! She has learnt that she can jump up high enough to clear the perspex on the other end of the dividing wall and get up the wall the same way she got up the other end. She’s a monster, but i’m also so proud of her - she’s obviously very clever [...]
Posted in Behaviour, Healthcare, My Rats on March 19, 2008 | No Comments »
I was back to the vets today - this time with Beau who has an abcess. I found it late Monday night and managed to get loads of the greenest, smelliest pus i’ve ever seen out of it! Today, thankfully it’s dried up and he just has a fairly large hole in his groin, so [...]
Posted in Behaviour, My Rats on March 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Whenever the boys are out to play they have to torment the girls in their cage. Normally Beau is the main troublemaker as he is fairly obsessed with the opposite sex. He’s the only one that makes the effort to get over the wall into the play area when they’re out rampaging about on the [...]
Posted in Behaviour, My Rats, Videos, photographs on February 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As you may know I used to have a perspex divider in the rat room to keep the rats in their play pen area. A little while ago I fell over the perspex and broke it, so I had a smaller piece that I used to patch up the gap I made. Eventually, however, Mustard [...]
Posted in Behaviour, My Rats, Videos on February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Tinks and Fogwatt were curled up in bed with Sugar yesterday and suddenly both started boggling at me. First Fogwatt, then Tinky, almost like one was setting the other off. Anyway, by some miracle I actually had the camera with me, so I videoed them. Here it is: Synchronised rat boggling. Enjoy!
