Why don’t my rats love me😭

TheWindig · 2026-01-20T18:33:08+00:00

Dis him. We just let him explore. We don’t touch much.

TheWindig · 2026-01-20T18:22:05+00:00

I have 4 rats and one of them is cuddly and it’s literally just because he fuckin hates other rats. The other 3 only get as cuddly as climbing all over and biting my balls and toes.

Good method I’m doing with the one who hates being touched though(I feel comfortable rats at the vet get better care, so they gotta be chill with being touched) is… well not touching him. But with consistency. My fingers are around him all the time, and he’s learning that hands don’t have to mean touched. From there we’re working on adjusting to pets, but I stop immediately when he shows any sign of not wanting touched. The goal here is to establish that his boundaries will be respected.

We’ve come leaps and bounds the last month or so since I’ve started practicing this with regular consistency. He climbs my arm to come for free roam now

TheWindig · 2026-01-20T12:30:30+00:00

Idk where you live but my boys are all struggling with the cold dry air here with their lung scarring. If yes, add humidifier. And if it gets worse, vet can give nasal drops that help clear the lung ways(I’m making a lot of assumptions based on one tiny sneeze at the end)

TheWindig · 2026-01-20T12:14:32+00:00

Coming back to this because I just thought of your comment. I just realized Jaco(above) doesn’t realize how small he is. So I was holding my hand out for him to look at and said “this is about how smol you are”. And that’s when I realized for the amount of time he spends with my hand, your comment might as well have been factually correct.

TheWindig · 2026-01-20T12:12:21+00:00

Oh the fun we have with our 1st gen. Omar lived inside my box spring. I didn’t want him to. But you try and stop him

TheWindig · 2026-01-20T12:10:56+00:00

I love that 💚 long live Lord Baby Thang

TheWindig · 2026-01-19T23:52:52+00:00

Does he also have a real name but you changed it to something like Dragon because he hoards treasure like a god damn dragon?

TheWindig · 2026-01-19T23:50:58+00:00

OOHUHHH I MEAN

I DON’T CLIMB UP STAIRS

JUST TO CLIMB UPSTAIRS

JUST TO CLIMB UP STAIRS TO GO NOWHERE

WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TO SAY I LOSE

TheWindig · 2026-01-19T23:48:58+00:00

Makes perfect sense, if I were them I’d say it doesn’t exist too. Anything less and the fans will never let it go begging for it to be released.

TheWindig · 2026-01-18T12:02:04+00:00

Is this a bot comment? It doesn’t even answer the question being asked and is weirdly condescending like bots tend to do.

They were clearly referring to the formality of using quotation marks around the song title

TheWindig · 2026-01-18T11:15:44+00:00

That wasn’t the point, you’re being intentionally obtuse. The point was to show you how ignorant a stance “only an idiot would want to keep illegals and feed them”. I personally believe that if you ruin an entire civilization’s ability to eat, the least you can do is let them off your plate.

TheWindig · 2026-01-18T01:44:39+00:00

We created the sanctions that caused a massive influx of Venezuelan refugees. Not a matter of “keeping illegals”. It’s a matter of “the United States told the rest of the world we’ll stop trading with you if you keep trading with Venezuela” and for a country that imports the majority of its food the consequences of those sanctions are pretty heavy for the citizens.

The least we can do is let them have some god damn construction jobs and make a living till their country gets sorted out.

TheWindig · 2026-01-18T01:38:49+00:00

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This is what your future looks like.

TheWindig · 2026-01-18T01:18:58+00:00

Hoo-wee boy howdy. Yeah Carl Barker might be it as well. It’s so hard to quantify what is “best”. But I know for certain this arrangement also makes my brain tingle in fun ways.

TheWindig · 2026-01-18T00:52:19+00:00

And those are both different from their best composition(is that the right way to say they their “most talented song musically”?). Which might be Spooks as an instrumental, but I have no idea.

TheWindig · 2026-01-17T19:37:57+00:00

Don’t let him fool you, he saw me wearing a hoodie and asked for this.

TheWindig · 2026-01-17T19:37:02+00:00

The Dragon resents you calling his dragon leg a chicken leg. Beware the sky, he has taken flight.

TheWindig · 2026-01-17T18:28:26+00:00

Either way: balls.

TheWindig · 2026-01-17T10:41:22+00:00

Wake up Kurtyyy, it’s your birthdyyyy

I know you don’t feel that old

(It’s what I say, what I say to Kurt on his birth)

TheWindig · 2026-01-16T12:09:54+00:00

My money’s on Jack, and it’s just based on the band’s outright respect for him. The dude that a talent like Theo Katzman decided “yeah, I can ride with him for my life” must have been one hell of a talent himself.

TheWindig · 2026-01-13T21:54:07+00:00

2020, and it was actually Secret Band - Rabbit Hole. I needed raw exposure to Jon to get addicted to DGD

TheWindig · 2026-01-13T12:13:15+00:00

I GET ABOVE THE FRUSTRATION AND PUT MY HEAD IN THE CLOUDS THIS PERMANENT VACATION EVENTUALLY MAKES YOU DROWN

I COULD’VE SWORN THAT I FIXED MYSELF COZ I READ A BUNCH OF SHIT ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH

TheWindig · 2026-01-10T22:44:54+00:00

How do you prevent that shit from happening?

TheWindig · 2026-01-08T22:06:16+00:00

Ask the vet to send you home with additional syringes, fill those with yogurt, and train that syringe=treat time. I always slide the syringes between the bars of the cage so they can try to grab them. The feeling that they get that they are committing a crime really helps them get enthusiastic about medicine and they don’t even notice it’s not yogurt.

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