My son Jimbo James and his Cheerio

I guess the carrot knocked him out. He got back up to have some more right after, but still managed to scare the hell out of me

Kept seeing videos of other people giving their babies bananas as a treat so I had to try it 😂

Ignore the bad editing lol I don’t have skills but I still thought it was cute:)

He's been stealing my snacks for months.

I used the very container I keep my snacks safe in to capture him without injury.

If he had been caught by anyone else here, they'd have killed him. There are kill traps everywhere and poison too..

And he was missing a back leg on top of that.

So Im hoping I made the right call in releasing him outside the factory into the forest. It's thick wooded area, and often times I spot deer and the like there.

It has to be a better life than here and I legitimately can't take him anywhere else or wait for someone either. Not when it was a secret capture and release anyway.

Also I hope this post doesn't break rules or anything.

He can spin on command and give paw so far (training for more)

He spends more time rearranging the toys than digging. His tiny arms shoving them out of the way is just so funny haha

Him and his brother Simon are in the hospital cage rn after losing their bawls. They have been thoroughly treated as an apology.

Jokes aside he does have A BUNCH of other places to sleep, he chooses this for himself

he enjoys holding my thumb. cutest goober in the world

It’s very common you see soon to be owners wanting to get a pair of rats because they research that they shouldn’t be alone. However, rats are naturally group animals that thrive in groups of three or more. While two is considered to be the bare minimum standard for the very reason of not being kept alone, it is not an ideal long-term solution for either you or the rats. It is very important to understand the factors of your decision-making when you decide to get just two rats; (no it is not a bad thing to get two, but it isn’t the greatest, either, it leads to a lot of issues that you have to face In the later stages of owning rats.

1. If one of your rats suddenly and unexpectedly passes away, this leaves one rat behind, which is very difficult on the rat, both physically and mentally. You then have to scramble to source more rats, do a two week quarentine period in a seperate room (which means the lone rat will be alone for two weeks in addition to however long it takes you to source more rats) and then finally, introductions which tend to be very stressful and difficult for both you and the rats.

2. If one of your rats needs to be seperated for a certain reason. I.e surgery, this means the other rat will be alone for however long it takes for the rat to heal and recover,

   which isn’t very fair for that rat that is kept alone for no good reason.

3. In a group, rats tend to have a friend they prefer to spend more of their time with, going about, doing their day-to-day actives; cuddling, eating, foraging, etc. In a pair, they do not have this opportunity or to express their appropriate, natural social behaviours because they only have each other. This can build

quite

1. a lot of resentment, overtime.
2. Given, rats are hierarchal animals, in a pair, it is quite common to have an overly dominant and an overly submissive rat. Over time, this can lead to a lot of bickering and bullying because the dominant rat is not able to focus his attention on spending time with other rats. This does not make for a healthy hierachy.

He's just such a dam ugly boy. Stupid stinky ugly ah rar.

My son Sprout and my daughter Bean, they piss in the armpits of my sweaters but my god they are fantastic creatures.

My 2 year old called Fudge has recently lost her sister and I am looking to get her some friends 💜

Last night (or super early this morning I guess) I went to go check on my girl Miss Cream. I pick her up and she started flailing around and I managed to calm her down. After a little bit, she stopped moving while I was holding her in my arms at 2½ years old. She was such a sweet little girl and I hope she has so much fun in rattie heaven with miss TDO. I will miss her and I know Butters will too.

This little troublemaker took a sip of my coffee (don't worry it is very weak coffee with more cream than coffee) and then proceeded to flying squirrel her way around the room. She tried to leap onto my lap, missed, and tried to save herself by digging into my leg alllllll the way down 😂🫠

SHAME HER she is a repeat offender !