Yay an update at long last!
With good photos!
So I gave the rats a cat bed the other day and they love it! I've attached it to the top of their cage so it hangs down like a massive hammock. It came with a cushion too which they just love.
Here is a pic of my oldest girl Ebby enjoying it!
Please ignore all her lumps, she has two but she is very nearly 3 years old so they are unable to be removed due to her age and the risk of her not waking up after anesthesia.
Here are some pics of the others enjoying snuggle time!
Elsie, Robyn and Roo (left to right!)
Here is Faye enjoying a snooze
Erin looking seriously comfy and content!
Now...
We have a new addition. This is Freya and she wasn't planned at all!
Here is her story:
We got her from a jolleeys petshop. This store didnt normally stock rats but had ordered her in for a customer. Who then decided she didnt want her… she’s been in the shop for over a month and hasn’t had any handling, company from other rats, or no space to climb, run or play. The tank was filthy and really needed cleaning out too.
I felt so sorry for her all alone and asked someone to let me see her. It was then when i started asking questions: why is she all alone? And then they told me her story.
I couldn’t leave her there. They don’t get customers for rats, hence why they never have rats in. She’d been there for over a month and no one had even asked about her. No one wanted her. So i had to have her. We even had to catch her ourselves because the staff were too scared of her. She’d run away from you and spin round when you went to pick her up, and squeak. But it was fear. Not aggression. They just didnt have a clue.
She’s now in the bottom half of my savic royal suite cage and is LOVING the space and toys. She is very skittish and does hide from me. But the minute i bought one of my other girls down and held her by the cage, she came running out! She craves playmates. Its so sad!! Soon i will begin introductions and soon she will hopefully come out of her shell a bit more :’)