The BRODENTS! Rodent Enthusiast Thread!

[darkvoodoo]

My boys are more laid back and willing to ride on my shoulder or in my hoodie, the girls not so much.
I teach all my rats their names. A few knew how to fetch.

[Keletheryl]

So, when I first told my mum that I planned on getting rats, her initial reaction was "Ew! Rats! They're so ugly looking! I don't want that thing anywhere near me, I don't even want to look at it"
and then, I posted a few rat videos to facebook of rats being cute off youtube, and my mum went shopping the other day...
She texted me with a picture of two rats, and was telling me about how some of them were cute and how the girl was interested in her and she stuck her finger in and poked it and she was all proud of herself for poking the rat and touching it, and she said she thought the girl rat was kinda cute. And then she told me she watched the video on my facebook and that she kinda liked the video.

converting people one by one into rataholics! And I don't even have mine yet!

[Keletheryl]

OH MY EVER DEAR LORD THEY ARE SO CUTE ASDJHDFFKGKL



Meet Zander! He's black on the top, white on the underbelly. Trying to figure out what kind of coat colour he is. He is the most friendly so far, he likes to crawl around on my lap and he's cleaned himself a lot. He also likes to eat his litter for some reason.


Meet Kiwi! Kiwi is the most skittish of the three. He's brown on top with a cream/white underbelly. Trying to figure out what coat colour he is, too. He's going to need a lot of socialization.


Meet North! He's the smartest (he's the only one who figured out the three-tier so far). He's still got yet to get used to my touch as well. Still trying to figure out his colouring, as well.

BONUS:

bundle of rats

[Keletheryl]

Update; Im giving away Zander, who after a short period of time, I've noticed is a she. Since they were all feeder rats (and honestly, Zander was kind of my favourite so far), she will be going to a family that has owned rats before that lives in my complex. And she will be well taken care of, now known as Frodo.

Kiwi is going back to the pet store, because I have reason to believe he is sick... I let them run around on my bed for a bit; North and Frodo(Zander) were running around and playing and investigating me and their surroundings and chittering their teeth, but Kiwi seemed disoriented, wasn't really interested in anything, and just kinda... Didn't do much. I've also discovered he has diarrhea. So I'll be returning him, and getting another two HEALTHY BOYS.

So much for my perfect three

[FuzzyThePunkCat]

I know I left, but I just wanted to inform you all that Smokey has passed away </3 From old age at the age of 2. :'(

[orpheus.]

I know I left, but I just wanted to inform you all that Smokey has passed away </3 From old age at the age of 2. :'(

Ahh, I'm so sorry Fuzzy. :c Rest in peace, little Smokey.
Also, sorry to hear you left.

[Peachytiger]

I know I left, but I just wanted to inform you all that Smokey has passed away </3 From old age at the age of 2. :'(

Oh no, I'm so sorry :C
R.I.P Smokey <3

[Kaotic Drizzle]

OH MY EVER DEAR LORD THEY ARE SO CUTE ASDJHDFFKGKL



Meet Zander! He's black on the top, white on the underbelly. Trying to figure out what kind of coat colour he is. He is the most friendly so far, he likes to crawl around on my lap and he's cleaned himself a lot. He also likes to eat his litter for some reason.


Meet Kiwi! Kiwi is the most skittish of the three. He's brown on top with a cream/white underbelly. Trying to figure out what coat colour he is, too. He's going to need a lot of socialization.


Meet North! He's the smartest (he's the only one who figured out the three-tier so far). He's still got yet to get used to my touch as well. Still trying to figure out his colouring, as well.

BONUS:

bundle of rats

they're so cute! Zander is a chocolate/black Berkshire, kiwi is an agouti self and north is an agouti capped, hope that helps!:-)

[FuzzyThePunkCat]

Black berkshire, agouti berkshire, and split-capped agouti capped.

[a snoozing skerple]

animals are not toys, nor are they expendable.
you have a young rodent, which you have named, taken into your home, and effectively made into your pet, and your responsibility, and you want to send him back to the shop where he will likely be either picked up as a feeder or outright discarded by its staff... because he has the craps. and then replace him, because he has the craps.
would you have decided to keep and tend to him if you'd had him for more than a month before he got sick, or would you just abandon him anyway regardless of whether you'd bonded or not?
if he came from the same place as the other two and they aren't showing any issues, then he's stressed, not sick. and on the off chance that he is having enough of a problem to pass away from it, then atleast have the decency to let him pass in a home instead of a feeder bin. he's deserves atleast some level of respect.