Rat update

Well apart from my mother turning out to be Queen of the Rats, with the ability to stick her hand in the cage and make the secret rat summoning signal which cause both Trudy and Oreo to wake up, leave the nest and come and be BFF, sit on her shoulder blow kisses, etc. the big news is that Trudy is manic to get out of the cage and explore.

I mean manic. Every time I go in she’s rattling her little tin cup on the bars and shaking the door. When I open it she hardly ever takes a treat, she wants to be OUT.

Which is hilarious because I let her climb up to the top of the cage and Oreo loses her mind – she scampers around frantically and follows Trudy from the inside. Eventually Oreo works out how to climb out and then I have both scampering around the top of the cage.

After that it’s rat snuggling time.

Trudy likes to cuddle up after some scampering and do some teeth grinding, which is nice. I’ve only had them a bit over a week and a half but I’m worried they don’t have enough to gnaw on, so today I bought them a little edible alfalfa log  to chew.

I also bought them a rat sized explore-ball. One of those hollow plastic things you insert your pet into so they can run around your sadly un-rat proof house and be entertained.

Unfortunately half the clips that hold it together are missing so it will have to be returned. Once it’s back I can let Trudy run around a little more.