Say hello to our newest members of the family. They are brothers born on January 10th. We adopted them last Saturday from a family on Craigslist who had acquired a female rat that, unbeknownst to them, was pregnant. So they have been handled since birth and are very friendly. They are also litterbox trained. They were named based on the characters in one of our favorite movies, A Night At The Roxbury.
At the advice of our vet, they are in quarantine which means they are living in Templeton and Nutterbutter’s old cage in the dining room for the next three weeks. This makes it difficult, and time consuming, letting them out to play. We tried constructing a wall made of broken down and taped boxes to block them from getting into the living room but we had a jailbreak yesterday. So I’ve been taking them into the upstairs bathroom to run freely. Not ideal, but what can you do?
I cannot wait until they are in the rat room where it will be more mentally stimulating for them with all the stuff to explore and play with. Plus it will make my life easier as right now I have to spend an hour with Marshmallow, wash up and change clothes, and spend another hour with them. On my days off it’s no big deal but that’s two hours on work days which eats up a good portion of my evening. Being able to let them all run around together will be wonderful.