http://www.mylovelyrats.com A diary of a human owned by rats. Tue, 25 May 2010 13:42:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_413" align="alignleft" width="226" caption="Birthday Pin-up"][/caption] I can't believe how fast you've grown up Dublin and Jinx - you're two now!! In human terms that's quite old - you're in your 60's! Two little old men! Here's some piccies from yesterday's birthday celebrations with your big sisters Skye and Maya ... http://www.mylovelyrats.com/birthday-boys-2 There's nothing really new on the ratty front, so here are some up-to-date photos of the small furry fellas :) Click on each photo to bring it up larger. Today my lovely rats have been eating Yorkshire pudding pieces http://www.mylovelyrats.com/cute-rat-pictures I can't believe it's been so long since my last post - almost 10 months! My apologies to anyone who regularly visits the site for neglecting to update it, I intend to rectify that right now! I found it difficult to write about the rats for a while after Shy-Shy died, ... http://www.mylovelyrats.com/rats-update Happy Birthday My Lovely Rats Blog - I can't believe it is three years since I wrote the very first post! I just squished this post in after I realised in May that I'd missed this momentous event! Happy Birthday Blog!!! Today my lovely rats are mostly eating nostalgic pies http://www.mylovelyrats.com/rats-blog-birthday The last one of the infamous four. My lovely Shy-Shy has departed to the Rainbow Bridge. We had been on holiday for a week and my neighbour had kindly fed the rats for me, including dishing out Shy-Shy's baby food everyday. Shy-Shy had been eating okay all the time we ... http://www.mylovelyrats.com/goodbye-shy-shy Baby Face Shy-Shy looking deceptively youthful. Aaw my poor old-man rat is losing his appetite. He refuses his dry rat food mix. He can be coaxed to eat baby oat breakfast though. His breathing has become a little more shallow lately and after the loss of his brothers I think ... http://www.mylovelyrats.com/old-rat Dublin Scrutinising his Birthday Card On 24th May the boys celebrated their first birthday with home made muesli biscuits! Jinx Grabs a Biccy Dublin Gets his Teeth into it I wouldn't dream of spoiling my rats.. I mean.. doesn't everyone bake for their pets?! They also got little parcels of ... http://www.mylovelyrats.com/birthday-boys On the 14th April our sweet Pip departed to the proverbial Rainbow Bridge... Since the death of his brother Stripe, Pip had been struggling against the ongoing effects of Mycoplasmosis. Although we tried an antibiotic called Septrin for roughly a month, the infection was too advanced, and his shallow gravelly breathing ... http://www.mylovelyrats.com/pip-gone-to-the-bridge Just a few days after Stripes 2nd birthday, he began to show signs of being seriously ill, and sadly, over last weekend he declined very quickly. It was all so sudden and unexpected. I continued to give him soft food and keep him warm, but he grew tired very quickly ... http://www.mylovelyrats.com/stripe-at-the-rainbow-bridge I have some sad news, Stripe, my sweet affectionate little rat is not well at all. Over the last two days he has suddenly become very weak and is unable to get about the cage very much. His breathing is quite shallow, and I think it is quite serious. I'm feeding ... http://www.mylovelyrats.com/poorly-stripe