Friday, October 19, 2012

Working Rats

Rats are not only the lovable lap potatoes that you would adopt into your life, but they are leading double lives as actors and life savers.

The movies rats are seen in are Charlotte's Web , Ben , Willard, Ratatouille  and Hotel Transylvania. Of course many dungeon movies have prancing rat actors in them also.

African pouched rats are trained to sniff out land the mines saving many people from blown up limbs. People that live in the places that these rats work love t them so much they wrote a song about them!


Monday, October 15, 2012

Pet rat Story Time




Sugar Cain-was one of my first rattys I bought him at the pet store. He was a little albino all white rat. He was really really shy all he wanted to was hide in my hair. His eyesight was very poor so he would leave his head back and forth in order to understand  where things were. I had tacked posters on my walls and he would jump into them thinking they were dark places that he could visit.


Able belly spots-I purchased him with Cain and he was my all time favorite because he was a peacemaker of all the new rats Intel the day he died. He was made with and groom any stranger and when he was young he would try to jump from my shoulders to others he would be the first one to figure out the puzzle boxes that treats inside.

Kuros-team might at so I was unclear about his age but once he was cleaned up and fed a better diet he became a great new level ratty. Bouncing and chasing feathers.

Rattus-came with Kuros and his favorite thing to do was eat and cuddle. He would go on long car rides with me and chatted the whole time.

Obo fancy pants-purchase because every day I went to the pet store he was there and I had to take him me he was really shy and scared at first but then became fast friends with Able and would do anything he did even when able got tired of him and through him on his back and cleaned his belly he would still be taking a nap with him nose to nose.

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Fun games to play with Rats



Teaching your rat its name by calling its name and rewarding it with a treat when it responds

Make a rat piñata
wrap some newspaper around a treat and tie it to the top of the cage

Cover yourself in a blanket and release your rat so they can enjoy using you as a playpen

Stuff rats in your pocket and go about your day you can even go outside for a that if you're rats are well behaved and the weather is fine

Let them chase bubbles feathers and yarn


here is some playful rats


http://youtu.be/5lHx7dp230w