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Maizie
post Mar 6 2011, 01:09 PM
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Baby(-ish) rats!! I've just arranged that on Sunday morning I am going to pick up 3 girlies, around 3 months old, who need rehoming.

O. M. G.!!!!
They are insanely insanely insanely wonderful. I think there will be a photo session later on. They are all siamese rats (so cream with brown noses and varying amounts towards the tail base, just like siamese cats), they have been so well handled it's unbelievable, they are just bouncing around the spare cage right now wanting cuddles and more cuddles and hello aren't I lovely and can I have cuddle and look at meeee!!!

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post Mar 6 2011, 03:16 PM
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QUOTE(Maizie @ Mar 6 2011, 01:09 PM) *

QUOTE(Maizie @ Mar 4 2011, 05:44 PM) *
Baby(-ish) rats!! I've just arranged that on Sunday morning I am going to pick up 3 girlies, around 3 months old, who need rehoming.

O. M. G.!!!!
They are insanely insanely insanely wonderful. I think there will be a photo session later on. They are all siamese rats (so cream with brown noses and varying amounts towards the tail base, just like siamese cats), they have been so well handled it's unbelievable, they are just bouncing around the spare cage right now wanting cuddles and more cuddles and hello aren't I lovely and can I have cuddle and look at meeee!!!

Now I just have to work out how to remember who is named who (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)


I learnt something today! Never knew there were Siamese rats.

Enjoy your new friends (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I am .. just glad to have a free day, where I don't have to do ot think about anything on the back of a horrible week at work. I got a head start on my housecleaning on Friday evening so while the house is cluttered, it is not dirty. I think I'll just sit here in a heap on the living room floor for a bit.
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post Mar 6 2011, 04:35 PM
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I learnt something today! Never knew there were Siamese rats.


These are not my girls, but here is a siamese rat pile:
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Mine are like the third one from the left, i.e. 'standard' siamese. Some are more marked than others, so some look very dark brown noses, and another almost white.
Here is a most wonderful website for exploring rat varieties (colours, markings, etc...now I read what I'm writing, perhaps it is a strange world, that of the rat fancy (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) )
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post Mar 6 2011, 04:56 PM
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Wow, that is a lot of different sorts of rats. I remember visiting a friend who had rats who had the run of the house - they were really sweet and would run up my arm and perch on my shoulder. However I am now owned by a former stray cat with rather well-developed hunting instincts so I suspect that any sort of small fast rodent would go down, um, very well in the wrong way.
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post Mar 6 2011, 05:49 PM
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Oh yes, our cat is a huntress - that's why the cat and rats do not meet in the open, ever! The rat cage is only opened if the door to the room is shut, and the cat is on the other side of it. The cat is mostly bemused by them, as she goes up to the cage and looks at these big-mouse-things, but they don't run away. They just view her as another visitor and come over to say hello. The cat eventually wanders off, thoroughly confused by these not-running-away things.
She is always extra-intrigued when young rats are in the house, since they are a lot smaller and I think she considers them a more mangageable size...if only she could get to them, and give chase!!
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Oh yes, our cat is a huntress - that's why the cat and rats do not meet in the open, ever! The rat cage is only opened if the door to the room is shut, and the cat is on the other side of it. The cat is mostly bemused by them, as she goes up to the cage and looks at these big-mouse-things, but they don't run away. They just view her as another visitor and come over to say hello. The cat eventually wanders off, thoroughly confused by these not-running-away things.
She is always extra-intrigued when young rats are in the house, since they are a lot smaller and I think she considers them a more mangageable size...if only she could get to them, and give chase!!


Aha, I see - my friend's rats had the run of the house (or maybe I am remembering wrong).

Friend with three cats was looking after hamsters for someone else - instead of seeing them as prey, one of the cats decided that the small fuzzy things were smaller versions of cats, and this embodied itself by wanting to eat vegetables. Apparently she will now eat vegetables but in a sort of are-you-sure-this-is-food way, all because she was copying the hamsters. And another of the household cats also will now eat vegetables, because her sister does so they *must* be tasty.

Funny things cats..
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post Mar 6 2011, 07:52 PM
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Seeing Baz, Panthera, PianoNotes, muffinmonster and Willard - and meeting louise1712 - at the Kodaly Choir today!

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And, over the past three days in Glasgow, having a great time at musiclearninglive!2011. Still suffering some emotional fallout...saw a session on Friday that reduced me to tears of joy and utter wonder. In life you probably only ever come across a handful of Very Special People - and this Hungarian teacher is one of them. Utter, utter genius.

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post Mar 7 2011, 09:09 AM
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Memories of a lovely day yesterday, meeting lots of lovely people and spending time with the lovely b-c (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Today, I'm looking forward to going back to York band (IMG:style_emoticons/default/yay.gif)
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I wish we could get our two (13 and 17) to play together, but the younger one just won't have it. Worse still, she has a wonderful singing voice with perfect pitch, but she just doesn't want to use it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

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Awww thanks, Diploma-buddy!
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Awww thanks, Diploma-buddy!


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