The BRODENTS! Rodent Enthusiast Thread!

[ivory.]

I'm glad everything worked out for you and your rats CaptainMarvel! Things have been going good with me and Lazarus too!
I posted before about him when I first got him with drinking concerns, but that gladly cleared up; he was gnawing on the dispenser when he realised there was water coming out of one end and experimented with it, and I've seen him use it frequently since, meaning I confidently removed the dish from his cage - much preferred!
As a backup arrangement until he's tame and transporting him will be easier, we cleaned (me and my mum, ahh gotta love parents) his cage with him in his ball yesterday! For those of you concerned, he's been here a week now and is comfortably settled, and I'm starting to tame him. So as excersize, I offered the ball to him today and he climbed right in without hesitation. He ran around for 25min and even when I put him back he was begging at the door <3.
Who am I to deny such a cutie attention?
So naturally I figured it would be a good time to offer treats, and laid my palm flat in the cage with carrot in the middle... and after a pause he hopped on comfortably and snuffled up my sleeve, and managed to wriggle through onto the desk (with a not so nice fall). He really took me by surprise. Not only did I honestly believe he would take longer to warm up to me, but I had hoped we'd do that somewhere a little safer. He's just daring for trouble >.<.

I really didn't realise we'd come this far that he would be exploring my arm and sitting on my hand? ?.. Gahh I'm so proud of him <3

[Kaotic Drizzle]

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

Nah agoutis have a cream/pale belly

[.Middy.]

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

Nah agoutis have a cream/pale belly

Agouti has nothing to do with a cream belly? Agouti is a color not a marking.

Banchee is a agouti masked, his belly is in no way cream.:


Anyways, I've got a lot of pictures to share with y'all! Just gotta take the time to upload them!

[Kaotic Drizzle]

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

Nah agoutis have a cream/pale belly

Agouti has nothing to do with a cream belly? Agouti is a color not a marking.

Banchee is a agouti masked, his belly is in no way cream.:


Anyways, I've got a lot of pictures to share with y'all! Just gotta take the time to upload them!

Agouti is indeed a colour and not a marking however agouti self's don't have the ticked colouring all over, they either have a cream or pale belly

Often referred to as the "wild rat" colour, Agouti rats have a ticked coat that appears to be a browny grey colour with black guard hairs, with a lighter grey belly. Agouti is a dominant colour and their coats can become a rusted brown/yellow colour.

http://crescenityrattery.weebly.com/colours.html

[.Middy.]

Really? Everyone I have seen had the ticking all over.

(I also wasn't aware we were talking self rats. Thought you meant that every agouti rat had a light tummy lol)

[Kaotic Drizzle]

Really? Everyone I have seen had the ticking all over.

(I also wasn't aware we were talking self rats. Thought you meant that every agouti rat had a light tummy lol)

All the ones I've met have the pale tummy, never owned a self only had a hooded agouti,
And nope I was talking about captainmarvel's kiwi

[.Middy.]

I think maybe it's still ticked, but just lighter in color? Now I've gotta figure this out lol!

[Keletheryl]

He has a cream belly.

[olivionary]

Hey, I don't know whether to split my boys up. They've lived with each other since April '14 but suddenly Satan turned on Lucifer. (They were in the Sputnik making an ugly squeak with paws raised. Eventually they got out and I removed the top but Satan appeared to start following him around, sometimes getting up to 'box'. Lasted for like 10 minutes.) He does bully him on occasion but usually over food. Should Satan get neutered? Should I wait to see if it passes over? Should I get Satan his own cage? // Note that during the day they are fine and will cuddle in the Sputnik and lay on each other in the house, but as soon as it's dark and they're playing Satan starts idk whether it's to do with his poor eye sight or what else? I also managed to pick Satan up after and he was very tense. I couldn't see any blood on them or in the cage.

I can still hear Lucifer squeaking and can assume Satans been pinning him, but it all started an hour ago.

// If they do split up, satan will be kept alone as I don't want to risk other rats and lucifer will be bought two younger pals.

[Keletheryl]

I let them all out and Zander keeps crawling all over me and grinding his teeth together... Is he okay? Is he hungry?