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Published: 2007-11-10 08:26:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 996; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 28
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Our new baby, Sophie. She's a two week old rat, and the sweetest thing... she's in my shirt right now :3Related content
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I know!!! And always smiling!!!
(She just died a few days ago...
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Oh no :'[, Im so sorry to hear that :[
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Mm, it's okay. ^^She's happy where she is now with my little Crumpet.
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Awww I love rats. They have such cute weasel faces. I have my Eddie on my shoulder. He's probably 8 weeks, he's a broken mask. Brown spots on both sides split down the middle with white
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Broken mask, that's great! They're so beautiful! ^^ we got wolfe neutered because we didn't want babies. Post pics of your rats!!!
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I only have one now. My Eddie. I have a few pictures of my past rats but they have all been long gone. I actually had a number of cages. I had two for my girls Marchoro(both were guinea pig/rabbit cages) though one was a bit bigger. The other cage was a tall Super Pet for ferrets. Though since I only have one (I hope to change that) I just have my small single home cage. But as we all know, rats need friends. And they are like popcorn. You can 't have just two or four or eight.... yah. LOL
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Lol, of course! My bf was saying "darn they're so cheap... okay, this is the last one...."
good luck with that!
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They can be. Though with breeders (who I'd rather go through then the chain stores like Petco and such) since they don't mill they're animals like the chain stores do. Up until a few years ago petco never separated they're male or female mice or rats. Until the ASPCA (bless them) complained and enough people did. If a child went home with a female rat, it usually was pregnant, and the store would take the babies, although wouldn't seperate them. Now they wouldn't separate them either. I prefer breeders or local stores, since they tend to be a bit, well, kinder. But your right rats are such wonderful little creatures.
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^^ Yea, we got little Sophie from petco... she's way too young to be sold, but she seemed friendly, and to give one a good home seemed good idea. Our first rat was from petsmart, a female accidentally got into their shipment (the petsmart nearby only sold males) and got pregnant,so we adopted one of the daughters. I think Wolfe is from a breeder, the store we got him from orders them from a local "guy".... and I've seen some pretty rare ones... well, rare as in haven't seen many agoutis or russian blues...american blues? Well, some very nice ones.
They're so sweet and smart. ^.^
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There are many different varieties. I use to know quite a few from the top of my head. I love my rats, and they are bout the only pets I can have now (due to time and not being home much) though I'd love to have a cat.
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Lol, I love cats too, but i get asthma from them. T_T Rats are so loving... didn't think they would be... but they live for two years... and have so many health problems. T_T
Btw, you're irish? That's sooo awesome... do you have an accent?? I LOVE irish accents!!! xD
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They can live longer then 2 years sweetie. Though most of them live about 2 and a half. They have a life span of 3 to 5, depending on how not so inbred they are. Males I've heard have a tendancy to live longer then the females but I could be wrong.
Heh
No I'm half irish, I love scottish accents myself. Make me all go into mush. I just like running around the house screaming that
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Lol. xD That's cute. I guess we all have our cue quotes -girls anyway. Mine is "feed me." Mom doesn't like that one much. One more question... do your rats ever bite your toes when you have socks on? Mine bite like they're trying to tear my toes off... but only with socks on. x___X
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No. But I've had some in the past that would try to chew off the new skin my dad put on his thumb to seal the cracks. They know stuff like that isn't natural and want to get it off the skin. My rat Zoe waaaaay way back when, use to knot peoples hair with her fingers. Litterally. She'd tie it in knots
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Huh... they always try to bite my feet, so scary!!! T_T And my Wolfe loves to steal papers -he took the entire manual for setting up my bike when my dad came over. And now he sneaks onto the table and steals salt water taffy from the candy bowl. Faaaat children.
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LOL. Mine did that. I've had cats that will even sneak a donut if they are left out.
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Lol, now that's cute! xD cats like donuts?? .-.
My cockatiels used to...still do...(I moved this past september from Hawaii to California...couldn't take them with me...?) try to steal food from your mouth when you're eating something. They see yourmouth moving and figure if you'd bother eating it, it must be better than seeds. They also love warm soup... dunno, guess my rats love soup too... sneaky little fuzzies on the table stealing things.
Btw... little Sophie just went to rat heaven a few days ago...one night she was suddenly puffy and just sitting out in the open -which she never does 'cause she's so skiddish. I thought she might be choking, but she was just panting, and it said they'd be gagging, so I figured that wasn't it. So I thought maybe she ate a thumb tack since she used to somehow climb into the closed drawer on the t.v. stand, but I don't know. She sneezed a little blood which wolfe has done for a while, but stopped after he got his antibiotics. So I gave her a little of the leftover medicine, and a few hours later she was dead...
Do you know what happened maybe?
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It possible that she ate a tack but I doubt it. Did she have a cough prior? Some sneezing? Thats the reason mine tend to pass away from a cold that doesn't want to leave. I don't have any now, even my little boy passed away. I'm actually done with them for a while. I also had a cat pass away too. My Pierre was 16. It's hard when they go up on the rainbow road. However if Sophie was gagging, panting with her mouth open to breath, she probably couldn't breath through her nose. They'll do that too.
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That's the worse thing. But the thing is, she was healthy until a few hours before she died, and she was just a little short of breath, and cuddling up in my silk scarves, so she wasn't cold or anything, since silk isn't very warm. But... I dunno. Yea, my fav. kitty when I was a little girl ran away to die. He was an outdoors cat. We used to leave him cooked fish every night at exactly 8:00 and I'd wait for him to show up. One day he didn't come, and I still look for him every time I go walking around the house. But well, they're all happy together now. ^^ But yea, rats are so loving, you get so attached to them, and they die so quickly...
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Its really too bad that rat's lives are so short due to all the inbreeding that has been done. Thats why they contract cancer so easily, same with pure bred animals. I use to have a cat named Oreo, he was an outdoors cat though always came home. He was awesome, I swear he was human in a past life cause he acted so human. I miss that cat to pieces. He went missing one day too, though I feared he got killed by a fox, and if that was the case I know the fox probably had a good war wound cause the Orb's was such a street smart cat.
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Aw...
Yea, uhm...I was wondering, have you ever had a baby rat that suddenly started acting ill, then bled from the nose like the mycoplasma, then died -even without showing sneezing symptoms? My little sophie did that, and my baby Loki is doing that now too... she's acting sick, but she's been confined to the cage and watched very well... I think they both suffer from severe mycoplasma attacks... what do you think?
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Probably, tho none of my kittens have died young like that.
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Lol, she gives herself a bath so I'm pretty useless at that. 
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What else, oh ya! I'm going to go apply for a job tomorrow hopefully I can get it because my bank account is looking almost empty nooooo!
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That's cool, I'm gonna apply for a job soon too... it's a 15 min walk, not too bad... except it's soo cold here! T_T
Aaaand... tis our birthday today!!! Did my two tests and yup! Gotta clean and do laundry and the rats are running about, but it's nice.
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It sure is!!
I went to school today and thats about it.
Hey, you have two rats?
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Have three... Lol, michiko just hates posing, I have some pics of her on my myspace. Michiko is my cute tubby girly... she's so round. :3
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Oh!
I'm still petless. I'll eventually get a pet. I actually thought about getting a hamster today.
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Lol, thank you! You should feel her... she's like a cloud... all fluffy... soft... you hafta press down on her quite a bit to feel her tiny frame under all the fuzz. :3
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