There's a rat in my shirt.

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adkissontl@gmail.com - 11 Jul 2007 02:16 GMT

Despite it being 500 degrees in Memphis, TN, I now have a dark gray
boy rat named Spin inside my sweatshirt and outside my teeshirt. So
far so good!!! But Jo-Jo is all kinds of mad not to be the rat
outside the cage tonight. I'll give him a graham cracker and we'll
hang in the AM. Thanks for all the feedback, folks--we'd still be
half-strangers if it weren't for the push I got from y'all! (Of
courys5e, I wouldn't smell like rat tee-tee, either, and the typo in
"course" is compliments of Spin, and now the keyboard also smells like
rat tee-tee.) Good evening! --Tracy (and Spin)

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jennjenn84 - 11 Jul 2007 02:53 GMT

My little butties like to run on my keyboard too! I sometimes let them run
and type messages to my sister or friends when we are chatting online. I'm
glad that you guys are bonding.

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Joanne - 13 Jul 2007 02:07 GMT

> Despite it being 500 degrees in Memphis, TN, I now have a dark gray
> boy rat named Spin inside my sweatshirt and outside my teeshirt. So
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> "course" is compliments of Spin, and now the keyboard also smells like
> rat tee-tee.) Good evening! --Tracy (and Spin)

Sweet! lol

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jennjenn84 - 13 Jul 2007 05:58 GMT

I tried this today with Scamp, but he wouldnt have it. Just kept running out
my neck-hole, scraching my face and neck up in the process. How did you do
it so he wouldnt run out?

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adkissontl@gmail.com - 13 Jul 2007 15:04 GMT

> I tried this today with Scamp, but he wouldnt have it. Just kept running out
> my neck-hole, scraching my face and neck up in the process. How did you do
> it so he wouldnt run out?
>
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The neck of the sweatshirt I wore fit pretty close, but Spin did stick
his head out a few times. I also had to keep the bottom hem of the
shirt pulled tight so he wouldn't scamper out that way. It was
definitely not a passive activity--and it probably would have looked
pretty comical to anyone watching! I wonder if a turtleneck would
help?

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Phoenix Moon - 15 Jul 2007 06:22 GMT

Funny enough, Jack has found that he likes it best inside my tanktop!
The kind with the built in bra-shelf-thing. Everytime I hold him now,
when he is ready to cuddle, he heads right between- well, you get it-
he stretches out flat right underneath my *mammary parts* on that
elasticy shelf & falls ASLEEP!! I wish he wouldn't have picked such an
unphotographable place, because it is absolutely precious.

Really, if Scamp doesn't want to stay- he won't. He'll find a way out.
Perhaps wait until he is sleepy. I tuck my shirts in to prevent any
falls, but most of my rattie babies have crawled into my arm holes or
neck holes on their own- maybe try wearing a big t-shirt.

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jennjenn84 - 15 Jul 2007 07:07 GMT

I was wearing one of my most tight sweatshirts. Maybe I'll try a bigger one.
I just sat on the couch so he couldnt fall out or anything. Scoot loves to
crawl into my shirt when I am laying down... and when I sit up he likes the
back of my neck, but I think its because he is cold. I keep my apartment
exactly 74 degrees, but they always seem to be cold. Any idea the right temp
for them?

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Joanne - 16 Jul 2007 03:30 GMT

>>I tried this today with Scamp, but he wouldnt have it. Just kept running out
>>my neck-hole, scraching my face and neck up in the process. How did you do
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> falls, but most of my rattie babies have crawled into my arm holes or
> neck holes on their own- maybe try wearing a big t-shirt.

Aww... but that's where he's closest to your smell. ;)

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