Rat pictures!

[oyceter]

I have been really terrible about rat updates, particularly for Haru and Momo. I think some of it is because CB thinks they are adorable too, so I get most of my "OMG LOOK AT THE RATSES!" out in person, which has not been the case for all my other rats.

Also, now that I have a new phone, I can take much better pictures. (You can tell when I get the new phone in the pictures below...) Alas, the whole using a camera, uploading the pictures to my computer, then uploading to the internet takes a few steps too many.

Anyway, Momo and Haru turn two some time this month! Yay!

That said, Momo's hind legs continue to decline =(. He doesn't seem to be in much pain, and I don't think he's losing any more weight. Just in case, I have been feeding him Ensure every so often. It smells disgusting, but he seems to like it. This is especially good, since he absolutely hates his medicine. Rats: teeny little front arms, and yet powerful enough to make syringe feeding difficult. >_<;;

Haru is rather delighting in all this, since he is now top rat of the cage.

And sadly, CB continues to be incredibly allergic to the rats, so he spent this week staying at his brother's place. Our romance: fated to terrible separation, two lovers torn apart by allergies! He must choose his health, while she must nurse her beloved pet!

... my life, not really romance novel fodder. Thankfully!

Anyway, have some blurry rat pictures!


Momo proves he is still in charge of the rat cage.


Haru's paws!


Momo eating


Glimpse of a Haru-nose!


Momo dutifully eating his Ensure

Comments

[ambyr]

AWWWWWW. I love the one of Haru (?) sleeping with his paws stuck in the air.

[oyceter]

That's Haru! Hahaha, he is not sleeping though... he had just been pinned down by Momo (this is before Momo's partial leg paralysis) and I kept him pinned down to take the pic bwahahaha. /evil rat mom

[oracne]

Tiny! Paws!

[oyceter]

So tiny looking! Yet so capable of pushing things away!

[(Anonymous)]

I know! I had one rat who was on antibiotics for three quarters of her life. She hated them. I got pretty good at finding the corner of her mouth and squirting the meds in, but then she'd refuse to swallow and just let it trickle out. It annoyed me that, although she hated the meds, her sister would have loved to take them in her place. I once accidentally grabbed her sister, thinking it was her, squirted some of the meds in, and didn't figure out I grabbed the wrong rat until the shock that things were going unusually well hit my brain.

-LG

[oyceter]

Ahahaha yes! Haru keeps wondering what this wonderful thing I keep giving Momo is, so I have to lock him in the cage while I shove it in Momo's mouth. And then Momo hates the taste of it, but magically adores chewing up the syringe just to be ornery like that.

[rachelmanija]

Awww!

[oyceter]

They are so cute! When not being evil, of course....

[james]

Adorable ratsies!

[oyceter]

^_____^

[st_aurafina]

Rat rat ratties! *heart eyes*

[umadoshi]

How are they so cute?! I especially love the last shot.

[holyschist]

Little rat noses! Bright rat eyes! So cute!

[chomiji]

I love Haru's helpless little hind paws where Momo has him pinned! They are so cute!

[runpunkrun]

Aw, rats. So cute.

[colorblue]

I cannot remember the last time I encountered such adorable obstacles to romance! Also, I missed what the problem was with Momo's hind legs. Did he injure them in some way? Whatever the case, I hope that they get better soon.

[oyceter]

I fail at comments!

Anyway, a lot of rats end up getting hind-leg paralysis when they get older, and Momo's seems to have started up =(. So... they don't really get better, but hopefully he is not in much pain and still having a good rat life? Oh ratses... why suspect to so many sad medical things?

[torachan]

Cuties!

[vass]

Oh that rat belly in the first picture! And his little paws!

I love the way they hold solid food while they eat it.

I'm amazed they haven't chewed that blue mesh thing to bits. It looks just like a texture rats would find intriguing.

[oyceter]

I'm amazed they haven't chewed that blue mesh thing to bits. It looks just like a texture rats would find intriguing.

YOU WOULD THINK, RIGHT?!

No! Because of course I actually spent time and bought it for them! Therefore it is nowhere near as interesting as other similar cloth surfaces that they are NOT supposed to be chewing on! Or, you know, weird things I toss them like leftover bones or toilet paper roll cores or the much adored paper bags with balls of used sandwich wrapper.

Oh rats....

[badgerbag]

Aaaaaaaa, so cute!!!!!