Pet Forum / Mammals / Rats / October 2005

Just a little goodbye as I am off on hols from very early tomorrow morning
and I won't be back for 5 days!
I'm going to my DREAM destination! Nashville, Tennessee!!!!! I've wanted to
go to Nashville for sooooo long now! I'm totally obsessed with country music

I noticed a few days ago that Arwen was dropping her blueberry each night
when I give them. I thought it was from a combo of the cool room temp and
the fact that the berry is frozen, so her paws just got too cold. But then
last night when I took her out, she kept trying to bite ...

I have noticed just in the past couple of weeks that my ratties are not as
active as they used to be.  They sleep very soundly most of the day, and
even at night they just don't bang around like they used to.  Their ages
are:

[OT-ish bit]
I've finally been dragged kicking and screaming into the Century of the
Fruit Bat!
I'm now the proud owner of "GertII", a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop running

The Buck House crew are saddened to announce the assisted passing of
Titus, at 18:22 on 25/10/05.
Titi had not been himself since the passing of his brother Ysgafala in
July and the recent death of his cagemate Nikolas cavy on 29 September

We, meaning Noelle, her mom and I, decided that we would set aside the
bottle and work with a water dish.  Implementation seems simple enough, but
is there anything I need to know?  Anything to look out for, other than
excessively yellow water (my 10 year-old's joke)...?

The Whittier Daily News in San Dimas California just this article on the
web edition of the paper:
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/entertainment/ci_3153965
I really like the upbeat way the article was written about pet rats

I gave my little ones a bath yesterday. So of course I took lots of
pictures. I thought I would share some fun!!
http://community.webshots.com/album/466651896QJMdnf
Enjoy!

Barbara had surgery today (completely succesful). Now she's home and she's
pulling at her cut so much that it's opening up and bleeding. What can we do?
We're trying to make a collar for her but she keeps pulling it off.
Tim

lost another one last night. i'm down to four. unbelievable.
poor clarice had been looking old and worn down and skinny for a time,
but i did not expect her to pass so quickly. i was sitting on the
couch and she squeaked in her cage across the room, fell out of the

http://celebratinguglypets.blogspot.com/2005/10/pests-or-pets.html
The rats in the picture are my very own Casey & Chester (who in my humble
opinion are *not* ugly at all!). :-D
- Tale

I have had all sorts of pets growing up and since i was in Honk Kong
on business back in 1986 and was introduced to a white rat one of the
engineers had.. I have kinda wanted  rat.. His white rat came when
called sat up.. never had a guniea pig and or mouse do that <g>

So sorry for my late posts ... I've not been around again much the last week
or two.
I just wanted to pass on my condolences to you both on the losses of Lester
& Stanley :-(

Hello all, it's been several months since I last posted, what with the move
and start of school. I'm starting to catch up on the posts. I'm so sorry to
hear of all your losses while I was away. My own loss is what made me come
back now; Frodo leap to the Rainbow Bridge this ...

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/A-VERY-VERY-VERY-OLD-DEAD-RAT_W0QQitemZ5621066408QQcatego
ryZ1469QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
wtf is it with this!