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[oyceter]

Alas, today has been a great disappointment. I went to the mall to look for the slouchy, flat boots I found that were on sale two days ago with my mom (that store didn't have the size) and this store didn't have the boots at all. So then I trooped over to Macy's to look for the brand of jeans that I got on sale last week to get another pair. It's hard to find jeans that fit. Might as well snatch them up when they're there! But the people at Macy's had never heard of the brand, and now I'm starting to wonder if it's imaginary. Except my jeans are sitting in my dresser. At least, I'm pretty sure they are.

ETA: And I tried to mail Totoro to rahael at the handy automated 24-hour post office, but they don't do international =(. But I managed to do it at Long's. So Rah, it's on its way!

Btw, the automated 24-hour post office machine is really, incredibly neat. I want one.

And because some people asked for it... Big Rat Pictures, aka more rat spam!

I never pass up an opportunity to make people ogle at my pets ;). Mostly this is because most people look at them and think, "Ew." Poor ratties.


Fitz-rat pretending to read the Wired article on anime. In reality, he is probably contemplating eating it.


Fitz-rat preening while being scritched between the shoulders.


Fool-rat deciding to venture out of the protective cover of blankets.


Fool-rat either sniffing at my fingers or trying to reach for a treat. Probably sniffing, given that his paws aren't waving around in the air.

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Awww... So adorable. Your ratties are so cute. I've had three rats in my life, but now that I have cats I can't have any more, so I like to ogle other people's. Hooded rats are my favorites.

[oyceter]

=(. The boy really wants to get cats too, and he insists one can train them so that they are rat-compatible. I have my doubts...

[rahael.livejournal.com]

Oooo! Thanks! I'm really looking forward to it!

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

And here we see the perils of reading LJ out of sequence. Here are the rat pictures! Aww, they look adorable. And v well-groomed and sleek and well-loved. (The sniffing picture is really disgustingly cute. SO cute. The little paws!)

[oyceter]

Eee, I know, isn't he so cute standing up like that? They've got such cute little fat rat tummies! And the pawses!

*sigh* I'm so embarrassing when it comes to talking about my pets... all the baby talk starts breaking out ;).

baby pet talk

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

Oh ghod, you should hear me around my cats. "Woojums" is about the least embarrassing thing I saw.

(And c'mon, da PAWSIES!)

Re: baby pet talk

[oyceter]

Hee hee hee hee! That's exactly how I am with the rats. Although somehow I ended up calling them "pies" (Cutie pies evolved to cute pies evolved to pies).

Re: baby pet talk

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

This is sickening, but our little calico, Tania, is so sweet I call her after desserts -- "Tania cupcake! Tania angel-food! Tania creme brulee!" while the husband and the other cat both look on in total disapproval. "Sweetie pie" went from "sweetness pie" to "pie of sweetness," so you can see how bad it gets....her nicknames are Sugar and Sweetie and Baby. I don't believe I'm revealing this on the net.

Re: baby pet talk

[oyceter]

LOL! I wonder what it is about nicknames and pastries (ala Lorne).

Re: baby pet talk

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

Well the other thing she gets called is Tania Lasagna because, yes, it rhymes....we don't do this with our other cat, although he is The Dude. Or The Guy, The Little Guy, The Little Nipper, and so on. I think Tim would rebel if I tried to call Max anything bakery-goods-related....

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

So adorable! How easy/hard is it to care for rats? (Have never had a pet. Except for the goldfish our family managed to kill in record time, not intentionally.)

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Rats are very easy pets to care for. They need a cage, food, and water; the cage needs to be cleaned, and the rats need to be taken out and played with regularly, taking care that they don't escape and hide within the bowels of the sofa. They're very intelligent and affectionate, and you can teach them amusing tricks and turn them into circus rats, if you have lots of spare time and enjoy that sort of thing.

The big drawback is that their natural lifetime is very short-- four years maximum, and usually three. That's the other reason I stopped keeping them.

[oyceter]

Rats are great pets if you don't have the space for bigger pets. Well, I think they're just great pets, period ;). They're really easy to take care of, like Rachel said. And I think they're fairly cheap relative to other pets. My biggest rat costs are their litter ($20/month or so, depending) and taking them to the vet. But they don't need shots or anything.

Plus, unlike a lot of small pets, they're really happy playing with people, if you like interactive pets. My roommate said hers used to ride on her shoulder with her (mine are too squirmy), but mine think I'm the coolest, largest toy ever or something! And they're pretty easy to train -- I actually didn't try with mine, but they usually come when I call anyway. I heard you can even litter train them.

Usually it's better to get two or more so they can keep each other company. And you just take them out of their cage and play with them a bit every day, because they do get bored.

The big problem is lifespan =(. I'm probably going to end up breaking my heart over them and stop keeping them for a bit until I recover. That's what ended up happening when I had mice before. Also, pet rats pretty much all have mycoplasma, so they're very prone to respiratory diseases.

Some of my fav. websites: The Dapper Rat, Curiosity Rats, and Rattie Ratz. Rattie Ratz is how I got my ratties ^_^.

Er, sorry to overwhelm you with rat enthusiasm ;).

[penmage.livejournal.com]

Your rats are so cute! I'd want some of my own, if N didn't hate rats so much. I can't really blame him, though - he had a huge one terrorizing his apartment. Ah well, I'll have to settle for a cat ;).

[oyceter]

Ohhh =(. That's too bad. Luckily, I have never seen the dreaded NY sewer rats, so I have no bad associations.

[penmage.livejournal.com]

He had this one huge black rat the size of his arm who was terrorizing the apt for months. When they finally caught it, he was so excited that he took pictures of it with his camera phone, and called me at 8:30 in the morning to let me know that the evildoer had been vanquished. :D

[oyceter]

LOL!

[deevalish.livejournal.com]

Which Macy's did you go to? And what's the brand of the jeans? I can tell you where they might be.

I'm currently on the hunt for flat tall boots. Maybe in tan or black.

[oyceter]

This time I was at the one in Valley Fair, but before that I was at the Macy's in Stanford Shopping Center. It's GLO jeans? I've never heard of them before, but they fit.

I really want these boots... I may order them online, hrm.

Man, we should go shopping together sometime ;). Fashionista and sometime-wannabe-Fashionista (that one would be me).

[deevalish.livejournal.com]

GLO? Are you sure it's not J.Lo? At the Stanford location did you find them in the Junior's dept.?

The boots are cute. I saw them at the Macy's in Union Square. I'm leaning towards these (http://www.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=129665&CategoryID=15351&LinkType=EverGreen) or these (http://www.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=125038&CategoryID=15352&LinkType=EverGreen).

Shopping is my therapy. It's also sometimes a very demanding mistress.

[oyceter]

Yup, definitely GLO. In the Junior's dept., but on a sales rack, so I don't know where they normally live.

Ooo, those boots are cute.

Mmm, shopping.... I bought too much with my mom, and now, to my consternation, I am finding that everything is on sale! Grrr.

[devrat.livejournal.com]

Awwww!

redredshoes sent me here to see rattie pictures and I've just melted all over my computer chair. I had rats a long long time ago and now I keep mice. I absolutely love my mice to death, but they're not as affectionate as rats. They're still very cute and smart and fun, but you won't catch them hanging out on my shoulder for fun like my rats did.

[oyceter]

Awwwwww! I used to have mice when I was a kid, actually, and then stopped keeping pets for a little. But now I have rats! I adore rodents, they're so cute!!

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

Your rats are adorable. They look smart, and healthy, and beautiful. Especially I loved the picture of the rat sniffing at something.

[oyceter]

Thank you!