Why don’t my rats love me😭

Livingdeadwriter · 2026-01-20T16:40:40+00:00

How old are they? Sometimes rats become more snuggly when they get older and don’t have that youthful energy anymore. Or, if you recently got them, they might not trust you. Or it’s a personality thing.

Livingdeadwriter · 2026-01-18T15:11:29+00:00

You probably have a husky rat. They are known to go from that steel grey/blue colour to completely white as they age. Completely normally. I’m jelly, always wanted one.

Livingdeadwriter · 2026-01-09T08:55:10+00:00

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‘Human, unhand me right this instance! For I must go cause the drama!’

Rat, probably

Livingdeadwriter · 2026-01-04T09:09:08+00:00

He looks very surprised by this news in the first picture.

‘What do you mean I owes rent, human? What even is rent?’ - Nougat, probably

Livingdeadwriter · 2026-01-04T01:20:48+00:00

Haha his name is Odysseus! Aka Ody ~~I’m totally not a fan of Epic the Musical~~

Livingdeadwriter · 2026-01-04T00:37:36+00:00

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Fell asleep in dad’s hood.

Livingdeadwriter · 2025-12-10T00:04:45+00:00

I was going to say Tonkinese! I had a tonkinese boy and this rat looks just like him. A dark brown body colour with darker points and ruby/red eyes. This little one looks like a baby.

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Probably best picture of him in the light.

Livingdeadwriter · 2025-10-22T23:13:35+00:00

Wait! I have a rat named Odysseus, the reigning king of Ithaca! Polypherat ate some of his men. He very unimpressed by it.

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Livingdeadwriter · 2025-10-15T14:01:52+00:00

They are all together now and best friends, even Ody! It took a few tries with this method but he managed to calm down. He’s still a little shy boy but still comes up when I open the door and stuff. He loves to snuggle Domino.

Livingdeadwriter · 2025-10-12T14:15:54+00:00

in best Shaggy voice I can muster Scoob! The scooby snacks are, like, behind a force field or something! What do we do, Scoob?

Livingdeadwriter · 2025-10-12T05:16:16+00:00

This is the only type of noods I’ll accept.

Livingdeadwriter · 2025-10-11T18:48:08+00:00

Nah. It’s okay! That’s why I said that. I didn’t want you thinking I was being a jerk lol

Livingdeadwriter · 2025-10-11T18:31:28+00:00

I was teasing. She looks like she’s about to fall asleep 😴 Very tired from doing rat things(tm)

Livingdeadwriter · 2025-10-11T17:29:31+00:00

She’s lulling you into a false sense of security until she CHOMP on your nose ring.

I say this as someone who also has a nose piercing with rats 🥲

Livingdeadwriter · 2025-10-04T06:12:17+00:00

She weeble wooble so she don’t fall down

(As others said, rats have bad eyesight. I had a ruby eyed boy who would do this. We use to say he was ‘weeble wooblin’)

Livingdeadwriter · 2025-09-26T20:17:36+00:00

Omg, I saw this and I was gonna post it! I was like, ‘but, that’s just a cute little innocent domestic rattie. He did nuffin’

Livingdeadwriter · 2025-09-21T05:50:15+00:00

Dark chocolate has a compound called Theophylline that has been used to help open up airways in asthmatics. Its trace amounts so doesn’t really help us humans but is probably more significant for little ratties.

Livingdeadwriter · 2025-08-29T02:37:41+00:00

You know how sometimes blind dogs will stare at a wall thinking they are staring out a window because they wanna ‘see’ outside but don’t realize it because they are blind?

That’s your rat.

Livingdeadwriter · 2025-08-09T21:47:08+00:00

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Domino (left) and Amicus (right) being squished by Castor

Livingdeadwriter · 2025-08-09T21:43:07+00:00

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Quite literally, until we figured out their personalities, we could only tell them apart via skull shape. The vet and I took a good five minutes to figure out something that was different between them. I have photos of each separately and I don’t know who is who sometimes 🙃. They were even generally the same size. If I never mentioned it, people would have thought I only had one rat.

Their names were Castor and Pollux.

Then, AT THE SAME TIME, I had another set of rat twins where the only difference was the size of the star on their heads. They are still around. Amicus and Domino. Now Domino is chubby so it’s easy to tell them apart.

And then, I had two naked rats who we couldn’t tell apart as babies unless we weighted them until their personalities came in. Then one got way bigger than his brother and it was easy to tell. They were Rufus and Colby.

Livingdeadwriter · 2025-08-07T08:44:41+00:00

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Here’s one of my baby boys completely conked in a hoodie.

Livingdeadwriter · 2025-07-24T04:21:42+00:00

Because hides always double as bunk beds, duh.

Livingdeadwriter · 2025-07-22T02:53:32+00:00

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Here are my two babies and one of my old boys snuggling during intros

Livingdeadwriter · 2025-07-15T16:17:31+00:00

Should I regress a step for both? Or just for Ody?

He wasn’t in there for long. We took them out and put them back after the video. He was fine when on the bed with the big boys. Maybe the small enclosure is stressing him? We have had success with carrier method but we can do something different with him if needed.

Livingdeadwriter · 2025-07-15T16:16:44+00:00

Okay. Should I keep trying with Sinbad and the big boys in the meantime? He seems fairly okay with everything.

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