DO Trudy and Oreo snore?

No.How do I know? Trudy is sleeping with her head tucked under my ear and Oreo is asleep, using my hood as a hammock, and neither of them are snoring, even slightly

Yeah, it’s cute. But if Oreo is marinating my hood, I’m putting her in the shower.

The hoody

I put on my Wisconsin Badgers hooded top. Trudy has declared it the best thing ever and has taken up residence in the hood, whether it’s up or down, and doesn’t seem inclined to ever leave. I think Oreo’s been spending a little too much time kicking her out of the nest and otherwise leaping up and down on her.

The Rat Pen

Trudy hates new places.

And now for something not very different

Vermintrude curled up apparently sitting on her own head while napping. Oreo behind her eating one of the ratfood nuggets form the quite impressively huge stash they managed to hide under a piece of paper.

I have real bedding for them but they tend to kick it around and ignore it. Show them a scrap of brown paper or some paper kitchen towel and they’re in ratty heaven. The glee with which they dash around, dragging it all back is a wonder.

Oreo is so keen to build her nest that often she doesn’t wait for Trudy to move first.

Counting my rat’s nipples

So there I am, trying to tempt a rat into climbing up the bars so I can see if she has nipples.

If you’re a rat owner you know why. For everyone else, the reason is that Oreo is looking suspiciously like she swallowed a pingpong ball. I think she might be pregnant. She’s been getting moody, she’s been wolfing down food, she doesn’t like to leave the nest unless there’s nesting material around in which case she’s manic. Also I’ve had them just about three weeks, about right or Oreo to have been knocked up and about to produce a litter… in fact it’s about the last practical date. Any longer and I can safely assume she’s just a fat moody so-and-so.

And if she is pregnant, her nipples should be showing. Maybe.

So there I am… trying to see her nipples. I feel like such a perv.

Rat stuff

I mean “stuff” as in “Stuff to put in the cage”.

Toys mostly. a ball that drops treats a mini Kong or doing the same. a jingle ball… and a carrier box to put them in when I need to move tehm around or simply clean the  cage.

Oreo poked the jingle ball and treat ball and went back to bed.

Trudy ignored them. I tried the mini ring size rat groomer… they loved it, but only insofar as they seemed to want to eat it.

The carry box? Oreo sat in a corner and looked mildly perturbed. Trudy wigged out. I mean she was scrabbling and chewing and clawing at the lid to get out. I’ve never seen her so freaked.

Let sleeping rats lie

Trudy just draped herself across the back of my neck and went to sleep with her chin on my shoulder… and my camera is upstairs so I can’t get a picture…