🎶"You're an obsession,
you're my obsession,
what do you want me to thieve
to make you squeak at me?
My napping time
has turned to fastness,
and my goodness
has turned to ratness
I am scurrying like I'm out of control
I will stash you
I will stash you
I will find a way
and I will stash you
Like an apple
A cut-up apple
I will collect you, and pee on you." :flan_keyboard: :flan_guitar: :flan_headbang:
"Ahem. Thumb-beast. We've talked about you stealing the poo before. We've had that discussion many times. What can we do to persuade you to--oooh, clean cozy hanging nest, we'll come back to this." #rats#petRats#ratsOfTheFediverse
Female #rats often hide their food, either moving it into the nest or piling lots of stuff around and over it. Finding where they've stashed it can be a real challenge.
"Rodent calling, to the faraway nests,
Now noms are declared, and mine are the best,
Rodent calling, to the underworld,
come out of your hammocks, you boys and girls.
The clean cage is coming, the broom's sweeping in,
Scrubdown expected, kibble's growing thin,
Bottle dings empty, but I have no fear,
cause rodents are rocking the air,
If anyone knows of a pet rat breeder in Perth, West Australia who has some babies needing homes, please point me at them lol
Preferably south of the river but I'm willing to travel a bit if u can promise you won't sell them to someone else while I'm on my way 😡
Preferably a pair or trio of females, but will consider boys.
Have a big empty cage just waiting for a bundle of mischief but I can't find any! #PetRats#RatsOfMastodon#perthwa
Caved and went into a pet shop I happened to be passing and found some baby girls, delightfully friendly for pet shot shop specimens!
Meet Speck, Tayla and Blaize! #PetRats#RatsOfMastodon
Rattie people, what are you tagging your rattie pictures with?
I use #RatsOfMastodon...kind of seems like I'm the only one using it..?
:blobrat: :blobratheart: :ratstand: :agender_rat:
🎵 "I've been waiting alllll day,
for you to clean my rat caaaage.
So let's get up, let's get on it,
don't you leave me warm and stinky tonight.
Honest, thumb-beast I'll do,
Everything and fling pooooo,
why don't you finish what you started?
Don't leave me warm and stinky tonight." :flan_guitar:
Grandpa watched them for us. We left everything he'd need on the futon and said "Give each two or three treats a day. A mix of whatever's here."
Pretty normal.
We get home and the food dishes are full. The poop has been scraped up. Grandpa took an empty treat can and put a mix of treats in it. Dregs remain in the bottom. Two toddler puffs, a couple chunks of this and that, and--
an Ikea sour gummy?
She Who Must Be Obeyed left a ziploc bag of gummies on a table in the rat room. Not on the futon, but close enough that he must have thought we'd slipped up.
The guys played with us last night, sure. But they also spent a LOT of effort trying to reach that table.
OC I love when they squish together