whoknew
Well-Known Member
Who knew Cheese and Crackers could be so gosh-darn cute?! Not I, my friends!
Cheese and Crackers are the two lovely girls I adopted today from the Ottawa Humane Society.
Cheese is a little wee smeezer and Crackers is a light gray (blue?) berk! These two also mark my first adventure into female rats!
Right off the bat I can tell you that they are about 100x more active than any boy rat I have ever had or met. Holy moly they ZOOOM. Both are very very skittish and afraid of almost everything, and I assume they really had not been handled much. Or if they had been, very roughly.
I'm at a loss of how to deal with these two, so I'm open to all suggestions. They nip a little, so I "eep".. and this seems to be working out. I'm just not sure what to do about socializing and making them less petrified of hands. I can't pick them up or touch them really because they squeek and squiggle away. Right now they've been running around on my desk like it's a motor speedway and I've been giving them little treats from my fingers, which they accept. I was thinking of starting "down the shirt" tomorrow but am afraid that picking them up and stuffing them somewhere odd may be even more frightening. So- suggestions welcome!
Right now I can't tell you too much more about their personalities, not having enough time to fully see them emerge yet. But these are two sweet, active(!), girls that I am fully looking forward to spending a lot of time with!
Cheese and Crackers are the two lovely girls I adopted today from the Ottawa Humane Society.
Cheese is a little wee smeezer and Crackers is a light gray (blue?) berk! These two also mark my first adventure into female rats!
Right off the bat I can tell you that they are about 100x more active than any boy rat I have ever had or met. Holy moly they ZOOOM. Both are very very skittish and afraid of almost everything, and I assume they really had not been handled much. Or if they had been, very roughly.
I'm at a loss of how to deal with these two, so I'm open to all suggestions. They nip a little, so I "eep".. and this seems to be working out. I'm just not sure what to do about socializing and making them less petrified of hands. I can't pick them up or touch them really because they squeek and squiggle away. Right now they've been running around on my desk like it's a motor speedway and I've been giving them little treats from my fingers, which they accept. I was thinking of starting "down the shirt" tomorrow but am afraid that picking them up and stuffing them somewhere odd may be even more frightening. So- suggestions welcome!
Right now I can't tell you too much more about their personalities, not having enough time to fully see them emerge yet. But these are two sweet, active(!), girls that I am fully looking forward to spending a lot of time with!