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Post by Die Fledermaus on Jan 14, 2010 15:23:02 GMT -4
As I posted, I had some sudden and unfortunate deaths, very unfortunate. So, I got over a month ago two fancy rats, and one timid girl is getting acquainted with things in the girls' cage behind me. The guy was allowed to grow elsewhere and then moved into a cage with Telly who is now alone. The new guy, a Himalayan with the points, as we posted about before, is VERY timid. And this is atypical; he is not even all white. Well, he squeezed out between the bars! To my shock!  It took days to locate him, and when I did he was safe behind the GP cage under the rat cage pressed against a bookcase - very narrow area. It was a major effort and very tiring. But with experience and skill, and patience, and luck, I got him!!  He is now safe in a tank with three smaller tame new guys I got yesterday. Oddly, the sister who was in with them died a day after I saw them: I came back the next day after I saw them with a carrier and towels and stuff to keep them warm while going home. Ideally, when bigger, they will go in Telly's big cage. I bought chicken wire to make escapes far harder, and that is my next task, along with thinking up names. Any assistance in that regard is welcome! |
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Post by Dezzi on Jan 14, 2010 18:59:59 GMT -4
If you have a rat named Telly you could go with Vision? Lols... I suck at coming up with names! I hate having my pets escape.  |
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Jan 14, 2010 20:10:44 GMT -4
No, Telly the name has nothing to do with television. Telly Savalas was a famous bald actor in the Sixties and Seventies. Telly the rat is hairless.
My pets almost never escape anymore. I do have one fancy mouse living in this bedroom here loose; I hear him, and someday will catch him.
What was odd about the trapping was that he walked right over AND ON a very sticky new glue pad I had blocking his escape route! I got him later, as I said. How he could do that I am amazed. If I caught him, or if I catch that mouse, I will easily oil them right off.
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Post by Hamsters82 on Jan 14, 2010 22:35:41 GMT -4
The Great Escape!  Good thing you found him and that he was safe and sound. And sorry about your other rats dying. |
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Jan 15, 2010 15:00:30 GMT -4
Thanks. They can be surprisingly fragile sometimes.
I will check your thread about your figures for name ideas. I have already done so many over the past decade.
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Post by Hamsters82 on Jan 15, 2010 22:59:44 GMT -4
Yeah use the names, that's what it's there for. Oh yeah and I couldn't send you the picture of Buttercup as for some reason it wouldn't send and it was a bad picture of her anyway.
But back on topic--how are your current rats doing?
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Jan 16, 2010 17:40:35 GMT -4
The ones who are still alive (four veterans, two from a few months ago, and three newbies) look fine.
I wanted to put the new males (the newbies and a guy from a few months ago) in Telly's big cage where he is alone (with Rangi, Max, and Petey very sadly gone), but they are too small, all of them, and will squeeze out through the bars! The newbies especially so. I have chicken wire here, and when I have time, when the weekend's football is over, and when I find my wire cutters, I will try to use it to keep them in. I dislike seeing Telly alone. being bald he also could use some warmth from other rats.
The four girls are behind me in a tall cage, the one Ebony and Ivory were returned in, if you recall that story. The newer one remains a little small and a little timid. The other girls, the veterans, and Annie (black, the late Petey's sister), Panini (white, who used to be timid, and being all white is very lucky to be here!), and the very friendly black and white hooded Kahini, my fave of the girls. She is the later Rangi's sister.
The three little new girls are very friendly, and the pet store worker I trust was glad I got them. we keep in touch.
I need names for one girl, and four guys. . . soon!
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Jan 16, 2010 17:43:07 GMT -4
The Great Escape! Good thing you found him and that he was safe and sound. And sorry about your other rats dying. The actual "great escape", as posted on RR, was when Moet and Chandon's surprise litters, after they became adults, gnawed a hole in the plastic side of a cage and ten rats got loose. I rounded up all but two very quickly, one of which I later found on my face when I was asleep. Glad I did! |
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Post by pinky on Jan 18, 2010 19:36:16 GMT -4
The Great Escape! Good thing you found him and that he was safe and sound. And sorry about your other rats dying. The actual "great escape", as posted on RR, was when Moet and Chandon's surprise litters, after they became adults, gnawed a hole in the plastic side of a cage and ten rats got loose. I rounded up all but two very quickly, one of which I later found on my face when I was asleep. Glad I did! I vaguely remember this! Sorry for your losses--and wonderful that you found your escapee! |
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Jan 19, 2010 0:58:42 GMT -4
Thanks. The thread must still be up in the Rat forum. Take a look.
It was very hard catching the escapee who was scared and very fast. I had to pin him between the cage side and the bookcase where he was hiding, block the rear area totally, sort of block the other side. . . and then with a face towel move it slowly towards and over him eventually having it on him and pressing on him. As I was doing that I was able with my other hand grab his tail. This was a long slow process.
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It took days to locate him, and when I did he was safe behind the GP cage under the rat cage pressed against a bookcase - very narrow area.
Good thing you found him and that he was safe and sound. And sorry about your other rats dying. 
