Handing stuff to my rat

Trudy, who has now discovered the joys of Stuff Outside The Cage is pretty much banging on the door. She’s desperate to explore.

In fact I assumed she wanted treats so I popped open the door and she leapt out, I handed her a cornflake… and she ran in, then came back. Odd. Normally she sits in the cage and eats. But now she grabs the cornflake and takes it off, then drops it and comes back. Oreo is delighted. She’s hoovering up all the loose cornflakes and running off to snack.

I recall Tserisa Zlatorbitek-Peledragon saying she handed her rats various objects and they scuttled o to stash them so I wondered i Trudy was trophy hunting.

I got a penny and two large glass fake gems – too big to swallow  and some cornflakes and let Trudy take her pick. She tried chewing a gem, then dropped it. She grabbed the penny and took it bac to her cage though.

New theory. She wants something to chew and for some reason doesn’t like the wooden stick that was in the centre of her hanging treat stick.