“Please, mom!!! Give us food!!! We are starving!!!” - my rats, sitting in front of the giant mass of food they’re stockpiling in a cardboard box, trying to play me for a fool 😒
I love the predictable behavior of rat owners.
1. See them doing something they aren't supposed to do.
2. Don't intervene, to see where it leads and if they succeed.
3. Be in awe of ther achievements and intervene after experiencing the joy if ther mayhem.
Do yours eat the food? Mine turned that down and didn't eat it after having a doffrent brand. When I read the backside list of ingredients and compared it to shunamite or ideal ratfood mix it also didn't come off as a good feeding choice either. If yours eat this, that's more than fine :) I just wanted to share findings. I found a similar, cheaper and better one from the mix ratios where I just add 2 or 3 other things according to my groups needs :)
I actually looked at different sites that said this is good food. The sites are in Dutch though so I don't think you can use it. What do you use? Maybe I can find that here too
I didn’t know about the chaos. But I love it. I wanted pet mice. A friend breeds rats and offered me a couple. When I visited to see my little guys as babies, I bonded with them and love them so much.
Right? My boys always went to town on the plastic as if they didn't eat for weeks (the fact that they had a full bowl of food in their cage and many treats scattered around the free roam area obviously didn't count)
Hey, sorry if this input is unwanted but are their thing for them to just chew (not food) in their with them? They like to chew to wear their teeth down
Mine had a 4 story cage (converted from a closet with chicken wire type door) with wooden houses, toys, blankets, ropes, anything chewable, and yet any time we let them loose they would go straight to any object that wasn't theirs and leave their mark. They passed away two years ago and i found bite marks on my yarn box... today! They ate a hole in our old sofa... Nothing was holy to them.
My most hyperactive troublemaker looks just like the rat in the video and just this week I've prevented her from eating caulking, the wall, and the hinges of the toilet seat.
She is actually the sweetest girl, never causing me trouble, she loves to just sit with me and be around me. The other girls, especially the white and brown one you can also see in the video is a trouble maker. She'll climb in my curtains, chew on cables, jump on my desk to eat my plants and just a lot more dangerous climbing. I can't have any toxic plants just because of her and she has killed more plants than I can count.
Just love them so much, they like to run and climb but they also like to be around us, just hard to choose. Altough they found a great option, climbing on me and inside of my clothes
Mine join me in the bathtub because apparently I can't bathe myself. (Yes Chai has seen the vet for the abscess on her neck. She's currently recovering from her third surgery on it. Fingers crossed we finally got it.)
Speaking of ratties climbing curtains…here is a pic of what we caught our two girls doing not long after we had moved into a new house during their free roaming days lol. It’s high up so you can imagine our panic. We promptly took down the fugly curtains in their room, and when we showed the pic to our friends & family…we used to say that our girlies are both suffering from communal suicidality and we were booked in to take them to see a rodent psychiatrist 🤣. Reactions were priceless because no one knew whether to believe us or not haha.
We have no idea why they insisted on climbing all the way up the curtains because not only were they free roaming back then in their youth…their nest was inside a sofa that was exclusively only theirs, plus they had a bunch of other rat only furniture in their room 😌. They’re elderly ladies now and have downsized to a nice enclosure, but of course still have their own room 🤣🥹.
If I let her she will climb to the top and just sit there, luckily I'm tall so I can reach up there and she will just walk onto my hand. Old picture though.
To me this is just proof of how intelligent they really are. They understand the concept of breaking something or opening it instead. For such a little fellah that’s mighty impressive when both of my cats chew threw any plastics if they know treats are inside lol
German researchers found that rats can understand the complex roles in playing hide and seek, and they understand that the roles change. The rats liked playing the game so much, they kept hiding to continue being found.
Two of my girls were really smart and figured out teamwork. One distracted us by pretending she was going to do something naughty in a very obvious way so we would look at her while her sister snuck around us to go dig in our plants... then they swapped. They tricked us this way more times than i'd like to admit 😅 they were also very sweet and gentle and taught their little sisters manners, until i let them have an almost empty tube of malt paste. The younger ones started to lick the opening, and one of the smarter girls knew to just shred the tube to get the good stuff 😄 she never destroyd stuff otherwise
Hero Rats is a company that uses African Pouched Rats to detect explosives. The rats are too lightweight to set off the bombs, and they are comparable to bomb-sniffing dogs.
So cute! 🥹 I miss my girls so much. We had three, they passed on a few years ago and I don’t think my heart will ever fully heal. I love this sub and all the adorable pics and videos. Rats are so smart and affectionate and I wish more people knew how wonderful they truly are ❤️
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u/CLOWTWOShadow(RIP), Mistey(RIP), Ben(RIP), Ninja(RIP)1d ago
I always feed them twice a day, after their free roam time. They were out for around 30 minutes so she decided it was breakfast time. I let her eat a little out of the bag before getting her out. She was just really hungry and the foraging toys with food isn't good enough or something (it's the exact same food) obviously I should just keep their food open l
They’re so clever! My girls don’t trust me at all, I give them a treat and they hold my hands and turn my hands over and search every inch of them before they’re satisfied I’m not hiding anything else 🤦♀️😂 makes me laugh every time
Well don’t tease the mice, they’ll grow self sufficient and escape the cage to irritate you in the morning when you go to eat your fruit loops and behold no fruit and no eggnog.
I know, with the food they had before this one they did that, with this food they eat everything. I also give them fruits, veggies and a lot of other things like rice and pasta
And then there was mine...knew his fat adorable white booty didn't need to work for it. Just lay on the floor and look pathetic..Grams will give me treats so I go back to my little hidey hole since she's kinda scared of me.
i used to feed a hamster of mine by straight up just outright putting him in his food bag. it really helped me figure out what he actually liked from the mix! and then he would get food bag time as a treat but he would eat everything in his enclosure because i would sort through and remove his least fav bits.
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Imagine on a date with this woman and you go back to hers without having any idea of her lover for rats she has in her home. You sit in couch or lay on bed and start popping up
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u/MadAboutAnimalsMags 26 rats in 30 years and I love them all 1d ago
“Please, mom!!! Give us food!!! We are starving!!!” - my rats, sitting in front of the giant mass of food they’re stockpiling in a cardboard box, trying to play me for a fool 😒