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Pet Forum / Mammals / Rats / June 2007baby rat rescue!
Man....I tell you, I have never been so relieved in all my life! Last night during out time one of the baby rats got startled by a noise and scarpered. I couldn't find him before I went to bed, and with 8 cats in the house I was expecting to wake up to...leftovers. No more then half an hour after getting up though, I hear crunchy scraping noises in the kitchen. Automatic thought - mouse. Then I thought "baby rat!" and went looking. Pulled lots of stuff out near the stove and there he was, safe and sound gnawing on a bone, none the worse for wear after spending the night away from mum, family and in a house with 8 cats. Thankfully he is sufficiently used to me/most noises that my shifting stuff didn't scare him into running and hiding again. I can breath again. But no more having ten babies out at a time any more!! He is making a great deal of noise telling his mum and siblings all about his night out by the sounds of it. Phew! Glad you were able to find your rattie! So do you really have 8 indoor cats? The most number of indoor cats I had was 6. It drove me balmy, but fortunately my DH (i.e. husband) worked out how to cat proof and enclose the backyard and it's been calm, fur-free and pleasant ever since. Dewi > Phew! Glad you were able to find your rattie! > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Dewi No, *I* lay claim to 6 free range cats (in/outdoor). There are two extras here for another week. Thankfully the extras are long haired so I will have no qualms about rehoming them. ;) perigrine Best story ever. And we have 2 indoor cats and 3 outdoors that we share with the neighbors. They were abandoned by some renters down the street. I HAD to care for them, too, LOL. Of course they also bring their assortment of friends by, giggle. Take care and enjoy your wee ones, Lynn kitty On Jun 23, 11:05 am, Dewi <widget4...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > Phew! Glad you were able to find your rattie! > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Dewi No, *I* lay claim to 6 free range cats (in/outdoor). There are two extras here for another week. Thankfully the extras are long haired so I will have no qualms about rehoming them. ;) perigrine Cats use to be my favourite pet, until I discovered rats. But I do still really like them - always will. All of my cats were strays at one stage. I don't consider 6 cats a lot anymore. Them most I've cared for at any one time was 12, but they weren't all mine. Dewi that happened once when i was a kid. my mom coaxed the little guy out with food but he hid for 3 days before he finally got hungry enough to let us get him. another time one of them crawled up in back of our fridge. i got him out with a brush-tipped vacuum cleaner (didn't hurt him only scared him). > Man....I tell you, I have never been so relieved in all my life! > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > He is making a great deal of noise telling his mum and siblings all > about his night out by the sounds of it. |
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