Mouse The Rat & Babies - Continuing the Rescue Story

Yes, how is Mama Mouse doing? I hope she is well and relaxing a bit more now that the kids are getting bigger?

Auggh, your bubs are so freakin' cute!! And yes, I was not surprised in the least when they chose the food bowl for snuggling, ha ha. Rats love that cool and soothing ceramic!

And Grandma Spaz put out nice fleece strips too! I bet they will discover the fleece and say, "Ahh, that is NICE!"

Mouse lives to RUN, she's still a good mom but she would prefer to be out and running when they are not feeding LOL

The babies are still growing

Rico - 51 g
Zak - 50 g
Mason - 47 g

Here they are in an extra large Tim Horton's cup...



Mason chewing on poor Rico's tail



and now chewing on poor Zak's feet...well they were right there LOL



Out out little chew-monster!! Time for Mason to have a little groom



and a little scratch from me, which he seemed to like



Is he going to chew on me now? No? Awwwwww....Mason lives to lick humans. :heart:



Rico as the last of the eye-openers is not sure what he wants to do yet.








Zak knows he has to explore...its his goal in life, just like his Mom's.



(note Mason licking me in the background)

Group photos

Mouse ready to bounce



Zak and Rico




Up is a new concept...soon they will be climbing

Oh my goodness... oh my!!! It's crazy cuteness!!!! And Mouse, such a sweet momma. :lotsohearts:

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Grrr I'm gonna eat you!! Haha. So tough!

:thud:.........................

I cant wait for this stage. This is my favorite part right here. They are so cute and small.

Got a few more pics of the babies in-cage and with Mouse.

Rico wasn't very serious about the hard food




Zak was more serious but still perferred to play and be the King of his Boxo castle



Mason was very serious, and wants to catch up to his brothers in weight



They used to swarm Mouse's belly (milkbar) and now its the mouth where the food goes in, she did a lot of ignoring and spinning away as they kept trying to take it from her LOL







and Mason was grooming Mom's ears LOLOL

Oh so sweet to see them interacting like that. Love the ear grooming on mom. And Zak trying to climb her back. lol Rico is a doll. Oh my... so much love.

They are so adorable!!! I love Mason's blaze, and I especially love the photo of him grooming his Momma. Mouse seems like a great mother

So sweet giving momma baths. Poor girl havin all big busy boys. Least it was only 3.
I have this sneaking suspicion Mason will be a food stasher!

they are the sweetest..

Oh my lord, I think this batch of photos wins best baby pics of the year for the cuteness factor! Mason is such a oral fixation baby, so sweet! Cleaning momma, eating his brothers' feet and tails, so freakin adorable!

Those great pics of the three of them in that cup...squeeee!! Face splatting preciousness!

Okay, so can I please adopt all three boys?

It is my favourite time too - little fuzzy adorable balls of rattyness. :heart: :heart: :heart:

Butterball weigh in at 5:40 am, the babies will be 19 days old now at 8 pm tonight

Rico - 57 g
Zak - 55 g
Mason - 51 g

Mouse with her baby blanket...such a good tolerant Mom.







Sleepy Rico, last up as usual



Zak and Rico


Baby chin rest



The water bottle was set too high for them but Rico kept trying





Once the bottle was lowered Zak figured it out fast, after a few mistakes and nose full of water...he learned to dip his toes into the nozzle and lick them off LOL




Then a little popcorn and clamber onto mom



I was sooo upset I missed this pic, but even the wee bit you can see is adorable I WILL catch that elusive baby yawn one day!



and Mason looking very round here, is always eating and determined to catch up to his brothers

Sweeeeeet!!! Mouse is such a good momma. These babies are wonderful. Oh almost captured that perfect yawn, but we got the widdle tongue!!!!! These pictures are the sunshine in my mornings. :love6:

These pictures are the first thing I look at with my morning coffee! I never want them to stop

Mouse belly before her run Morning meds all over my PJ's LOL

Her face... lol So sweet

just a few more pics of the babies in my lap before the batteries died LOL

Rico licking



Rico grooming



and Zak