{"id":6074,"date":"2014-02-24T17:42:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T23:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=6074"},"modified":"2014-02-24T17:42:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T23:42:51","slug":"hello-new-rattie-rip-nougat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=6074","title":{"rendered":"Hello New Rattie &#038; RIP Nougat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we bought a baby rat (not yet named) from Petco to keep Hershey company and today I found my hamster, Nougat, dead. They weren&#8217;t housed together, so I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any correlation between the new rat joining our home and Nougat dying, but it&#8217;s certainly odd because it has been exactly a year since I got Nougat and he wasn&#8217;t showing any signs of illness. He was perfectly normal yesterday, but when I checked his cage this evening to give him food I noticed the food I had put there yesterday hadn&#8217;t been touched, so I had a bad feeling. Checking his igloo I found him curled up like he died in his sleep. How is it that my mean hamster, Oreo, lived over two years and Nougat only lived a year? RIP Nougat.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one of the last photos I took of him. It&#8217;s not good because I was messing with my new 50 mm lens. The photo below that is of Bella&#8217;s buddy, Mimi, who my sister-in-law was dog-sitting and brought over this weekend when we had dinner together.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/12758343604\/\" title=\"RIP Nougat\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3834\/12758343604_6125c8601e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"RIP Nougat\" class=\"entry\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/12757900115\/\" title=\"Mimi &amp; Nougat\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7403\/12757900115_d76724c582.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Mimi &amp; Nougat\" class=\"entry\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>And here are photos of the new unnamed rat. He moves his head side to side a little strangely, so I suspect he has vision problems. I&#8217;m not really sure. He&#8217;s separated from Hershey to let him acclimate and for us to make sure he doesn&#8217;t have any illnesses he could pass to Hershey. <\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/12727552023\/\" title=\"New Baby Rat\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3794\/12727552023_103edf112f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"New Baby Rat\" class=\"entry\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/12727397435\/\" title=\"New Baby Rat\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3703\/12727397435_56c284d2d2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"New Baby Rat\" class=\"entry\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we bought a baby rat (not yet named) from Petco to keep Hershey company and today I found my hamster, Nougat, dead. They weren&#8217;t housed together, so I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any correlation between the new rat joining our home and Nougat dying, but it&#8217;s certainly odd because it has been exactly a year since I got Nougat and he wasn&#8217;t showing any signs of illness. He was perfectly normal yesterday, but when I checked his cage this evening to give him food I noticed the food I had put there yesterday hadn&#8217;t been touched, so I had a bad feeling. Checking his igloo I found him curled up like he died in his sleep. How is it that my mean hamster, Oreo, lived over two years and Nougat only lived a year? RIP Nougat. Here&#8217;s one of the last photos I took of him. It&#8217;s not good because <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=6074\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6077,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6074\/revisions\/6077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}