My Lovely Rats

Merry Christmas from the Ratties!!

My clever mum made these xmas mice, although they look more like rats to me!

The boys have a brand new home: A glorious Explorer cage from Pet World Direct. It’s fabulous. It’s well built and sturdy, with plenty of room, while having a much smaller “footprint” than my previous Furet XL. The bar spacing is great - it would suit young rats from 6 weeks old. The price was fantastic. So easy to clean! The only draw back with the cage that I can see is that it’s very heavy, so it’s not so easy to transport - but you can unscrew it all and flat pack it. I’ve thrown these cage furnishings together, so it’s not as aesthetically pleasing as it could be, but here it is:

The rats are extremely comfortable in their new abode, as you can see here:

Stripe taking it easy

Jinx and Dublin live in the top portion, and Shy-Shy, Stripe and Pip live in the bottom.

Jinx peeps out of his new house

Today my lovely rats are mostly dreaming of eating Christmas dinner!

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Happy birthday ratty blog - one year old today!

Pip and Stripe Chillin’

Today my lovely rats have been mostly eating baked beans and chips (tut tut)

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I can’t believe it! The boys are one year old today! It doesn’t seem very long ago when they were whizzing wee fuzzies!
Maya and I made the birthday bucks a delicious cake each. Here are the rough ingredients:-

self raising flour
margarine
1 egg
a little milk
crushed walnuts
grated carrot
a few dried cranberries
sweetcorn

We also made little presents of treats wrapped up in paper.
My 3 daughters helped me deliver the ratty gifts, and here are the pictures of Shy-Shy, Pip, Rocky and Stripe’s first birthday:-

Birthday Boy cuddles with Hannah

If I look cute and adorable, will mum give me that cake?

Rocky demonstrates the lunge-grab-bolt-backwards manoeuvre

“He he he ha ha” (Stripe laughing in a Remy-like way)

“Sniff and look pitiful, maybe she’ll give us some more cake”

“This is intriguing and smells frightfully good!”

Rocky has silent food haze moment

“Please mum, can I have some more?”

Today my lovely rats have been mostly eating lovely birthday treats.

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Yeah! 2008! New Year’s resolution 1: Stop spoiling the rats with naughty but nice food! It’s not good for them to over indulge! 2: Stop making New Year resolutions I won’t keep to!

Here’s the latest pics of the boys:

Shy-shy winning cuddliest rat competiton

Stripe pleading for one more yoghurt drop

Rocky “The Bruiser” Rat

A Pip in the Hand is worth two in the Cage

Today my rats are mostly eating my hair

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