Two new additions to the family.

**0193081** · July 28th, 2004, 02:53 PM

Here are the new pets. Baby hooded rats, 6 or 7 weeks old. Got them from my brother, whose rats had babies.

I named them Sam & Twitch. They're females, but who cares, they're rats.

Here they are chilling on my desk.

rats

Here's Twitch (Sam was hiding behind my monitor. Let me tell you, it's a bitch trying to get her out from there.)

twitch

And here they are reunited on my neck. Not easy to take a picture of.

neck

<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ July 28, 2004 11:58 AM: Message edited by: Peter Hoffman ]</font>

**Peter Peeker** · July 28th, 2004, 02:56 PM

cute little buggers.
make sure you keep the away from Chaser's pets. [img]wink.gif[/img]

**Street Worm** · July 28th, 2004, 02:58 PM

Cool!
My wife used to have a pet rat-very cool little guy........

**0193081** · July 28th, 2004, 02:59 PM

The are extremely friendly. Every time I walk into the room, they jump onto the side of the cage.

And it does kind of suck having pets that are used as food. Have to keep my one cat far away from them.

**DemonsAngel** · July 28th, 2004, 05:12 PM

well tinker knows how to open her cage so i have to keep a little clip on it [img]wink.gif[/img]

**Quikman** · July 28th, 2004, 05:14 PM

they are cute.. [img]smile.gif[/img]

**StV** · July 28th, 2004, 05:17 PM

...and delicious, if you're a snake! [img]graemlins/devil.gif[/img]

Toy Warrior · July 28th, 2004, 05:26 PM

Rats are very cool animals. I had two females and they would come to their names, do tricks, and all sorts of cool stuff. The only bad side to rats is that their average lifespan is around 3 years [img]frown.gif[/img] Some can live longer than that but they are more prone to developing tumors and getting sick. I don't want to sound like a total drag, just warning you about their life span especially if you get really attached to animals like I do. One of my females developed a tumor at 3.5 years and the other ended up going blind in both eyes. They had reached a point where it was more humane for me to have them put down. It was the hardest thing I have ever done, I [img]graemlins/cry.gif[/img] like a baby.