Well, late last night, I finished "Radar Proofing" the big FN cage. Finally. I think it looks odd, but Steve and Jay think it looks cool, so what do I know? ;) The one convienient thing about it is that now there are more options for hanging water bottles, so I can put them lower so Radar doesn't have to stand on tip toe to drink ( Read more... )

Poor Lyra. He really is agoraphobic. He makes an unbelievable racket starting from the moment I put the harness on him. I stopped putting him in cat carriers a long time ago - they only made the racket worse. So, I put him in a harness and lead, set him on the floor on the front passenger side, and loop the end of the lead over the gear shift ( Read more... )

Well, Doc T. called this morning with Lyra's blood test results - Diabetes. Ugh. I'm to take Lyra in tomorrow for a couple of days to figure out the optimal dosage for the feline insulin equivalent, then I get to give him shots twice a day possibly for the rest of his life. He's gonna hate me. Doc says he'll probably LOVE the food he's going to ( Read more... )

Well, yesterday went well, with all the boys in the big cage, but there was no way I was going to leave "look ma, I can run through the wall!" Radar in there over night, unsupervised. So Radar and Recon went back into the little cage so I could get some worry free sleep ( Read more... )

Here's the intro I posted to the ratties community on Radar - silly me didn't think to cross post to my own journal.

http://community.livejournal.com/ratties/5816457.html

Well, a bit better than a week ago, I opened two new cages because I got two new boys at about the same time. One is from a part time breeder in Austin - a 5.5 week old agouti dumbo hoodie we call Radar. A couple of the wonderful ladies from the Texas Rat Association fired up the ratty train and got him up to me. The other was an impulse (kinda ( Read more... )

I went into PetCo for yogies one day, saw they were cleaning the rat cages, and asked if I could play. I'm real lucky in that we have a great PetCo nearby. They are crap for fish, but great for small furs. The small animal manager has several dozen rats himself, so the rats at the store get well taken care of and are socialized as much as ( Read more... )