{"id":6677,"date":"2015-01-11T14:42:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T20:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=6677"},"modified":"2015-01-11T15:09:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T21:09:28","slug":"rat-play-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=6677","title":{"rendered":"Rat Play Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I decided to let Doug run around on the bed with Milo and Gizmo to see what would happen. No fights broke out, but Milo was not too thrilled. He&#8217;s a bit of a wimp and would start squeaking whenever Doug came near him even though he wasn&#8217;t touching him. Then when I gave all the boys a treat, Milo was too on edge to eat his. He just sat crammed in a Kleenex box with the treat in his mouth. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/16069971130\" title=\"Nervous Milo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7492\/16069971130_dd75767753.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Nervous Milo\" class=\"entry\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He did eventually calm down enough to actually eat his treat.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sE3V200U3LE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Doug kept following Gizmo around, trying to challenge him a bit (when they get up on their back legs and stand nose-to-nose) but that was as aggressive as it got. <\/p>\n<p>After a few minutes, I sat down on the bed and both Milo and Gizmo immediately jumped onto my lap and hunkered down as if to say, &#8220;protect us from this new rat, mommy&#8221;. LOL! They don&#8217;t usually behave that way, so I can only assume they found some sort of comfort being by me since as soon as I removed Doug they both hopped off my lap and started running around the bed like usual. Silly boys!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to know that Doug can get along with those two in case Steve passes away first. Knowing my luck, though, Steve will live the longest because he&#8217;s such an ass!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I completely forget that yesterday was Doug and Steve&#8217;s birthday (they turned 1) until I got a text from the guy I adopted them from. Too funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I decided to let Doug run around on the bed with Milo and Gizmo to see what would happen. No fights broke out, but Milo was not too thrilled. He&#8217;s a bit of a wimp and would start squeaking whenever Doug came near him even though he wasn&#8217;t touching him. Then when I gave all the boys a treat, Milo was too on edge to eat his. He just sat crammed in a Kleenex box with the treat in his mouth. He did eventually calm down enough to actually eat his treat. Doug kept following Gizmo around, trying to challenge him a bit (when they get up on their back legs and stand nose-to-nose) but that was as aggressive as it got. After a few minutes, I sat down on the bed and both Milo and Gizmo immediately jumped onto my lap and hunkered down as if to say, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=6677\">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-6677","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\/6677"}],"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=6677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6681,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions\/6681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}