IdahoRose wrote:
spiders wrote:
I have 3 rats. I love them.
I'd like to have horses again, and a dog (Labrador).
Also I'd like a few giraffes.
Tell me more about your rats. I love rats! Is that one of yours in your avatar?
Yes that is Clover in my avatar. He's named after the four-leaf clover marking on his back. He also has a star (which is about 10 white hairs) on his forehead. The other two boys are called Milo and Gimli. They're all brothers and they're the same colour.
These guys were not bred very well, I think they were bred for snake feed. We got them at the pet shop. Milo and Gimli have mycoplasma symptoms which I sometimes have to give them medication for. They sound like they have a rattly chest and they sneeze and cough. Clover's not too badly affected.
They live in a 3 storey cage which is about 1.8 metres high. They use litter trays, all the time for their droppings. They will use the trays to urinate in but sometimes they don't.
They sleep in hammocks, or an igloo, usually piled on top of each other. Rats have to have company.
Clover knows his name and he will come running to me when I call him, but not to my son
They eat fruit and vegies and a mixture of cereals and grains. They like to have the large bones from a cooked chicken. They don't get that very often because we rarely eat meat.