Look! Cultural appropriation! (just kidding, it's actually rats)

[oyceter]

A little bar on the rat cage broke so that the door now apparently doesn't always stay latched. I walked in this morning to find the door wide open, with the rats thankfully still asleep inside. I walked in a few minutes ago after work to find the door wide open again.

Rats still inside.

Most domesticated rats ever.

Or dorkiest!

Comments

[seajules]

Why should they venture outside the cage when you are not there to scritch their bellies?

[oyceter]

It is true! Also, Fitz-rat's Amazing Break for Freedom was a year ago, and he's probably forgotten how thrilling it was ;).

(it lasted all of one minute, after which he promptly abandoned freedom for food)

[seajules]

See, he probably remembers exactly how thrilling it was, and how much more satisfying he found food than freedom. *G*

[oyceter]

Hee!

Like owner, like pet? ;)

[seajules]

Vive le foodie! *G*

[kintail.livejournal.com]

Your rats (I assume they're yours in the icon) are so cute!

My rats never liked to come out of their cage on their own, either, when I'd leave it open and invite them out. I usually needed to offer bribes for this to work.

Twist-tie repair time?

[oyceter]

Yes! They're my rats in the icon! I think Fitz-rat's on the bottom and Fool-rat's face is on top, but you can't really tell that Fool-rat is hooded.

The funny thing is, mine will scamper to the door if I make the food clicky noise. Or sometimes they'll just be there, looking out at me, begging to be let out.

Definitely twist-tie time. My rat water bottle is held to the cage via twist-tie as well, because I lost the wire thing.

Also, I use twist-ties as stitch markers.

They are handy!

[maeve-rigan.livejournal.com]

Are any of those rats named Amy?

[oyceter]

Alas, no!

Fitz-rat and Fool-rat.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Aww! You named them after Fitz and the Fool! That is so awesome.

[oyceter]

I did! You've read Hobb!

(usually when I tell my non-fantasy reading friends, I have to sort of explain that I got the names out of a book and that I didn't mean to call my pet a fool, but... Fitz had to have a companion!)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yes, I love Hobb! I had pet Fitz and Fool finches for a while. I did have to explain the names to people, but it was still better than the previous pair, which my mother had named Luke and Leia.

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

*dies of the cuteness*

Are you going to be the Oyce who cried--just kidding. *flees*

[oyceter]

Hee! Yes, I seem to be ;).

I scritch the rats for you!

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

Or laziest?

Animals are such creatures of habit sometimes. One of my cats has decided that she cannot possibly eat out of the other cat's bowl (identical to hers, but on the other side of the water bowl), so she meows frantically to be fed in the morning even when there's lots of food left in his bowl. (Which there generally is, because he doesn't eat much and she's a glutton.)

[oyceter]

So lazy!

My rats usually do just about anything for food.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Darn. I was hoping there would be photos.

[oyceter]

Oh yeah, I have my camera back! I should take more pictures.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Domesticated rats, yay!

[oyceter]

Exactly!

[kate_nepveu]

Heh. Our dog won't stay *in* her crate when the door comes open, but she'll go in of her own volition: when she thinks we _ought_ to be leaving for the day or going to bed, or (as today) when it's raining hard and she doesn't want to go for a walk. In the later case, she goes _all the way to the very back_ in hopes of keeping us from dragging her out.

It's really pathetic in a cute kind of way.

Yay, pets and their safe spaces.

[oyceter]

Hee! The funny thing is, Fitz-rat did make an attempt at freedom last year when the cage door was open. I think he gave it up for food.

Maybe he's decided that the energy really just isn't worth it when I give him treats anyway!

[madam-silvertip.livejournal.com]

this is such a cute post! and the title is so funny!

[oyceter]

All credit for cuteness goes to the rats, who are wonderful and cute, and if you don't stop me, I will go on and on about them for forever!

Eh heh, the title is probably more a rueful acknowledgement than anything, but I'm glad it was amusing and not spork-worthy!