The Study Of Ratology

🌙 Ezra, Wheat, Hopper, Kit, Cricket, Albert, Patrick, Gage, Church, Jesse & Dwight 💜

[mastomysowner]

Autumn is rat time

[corpsebod]

He's looking right at me isn't he

[rslashrats]

[ratoiogy]

party on the top, business at the bottom

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this was my first time making a two tier cube! and they are obsessed with it.

[ratoiogy]

I think he fancies himself some kind of invisible adventurer

[rslashrats]

My boyfriend knitted a sweater for our oldest son (1 and a half) and he hated it 🥰 (he only wore it for the pic) had to share

ehat a little gentleman… ty for sharing he is adorable

[ratoiogy]

rats are disgusting

stewart little isnt real he cant hurt you anymore

[ratoiogy]

We gonna be HEALTHY in 2020 👏

[ratoiogy]

This post didn’t age well, lol.

[ratoiogy]

YOU STOLE FIZZY LIFTING YOGIES.

(he’s fine he was just fighting for his life to hide the other 2 treats he had stuffed into his mouth to make the perfect getaway)

(he did end up getting them in the end bc he was too funny)

[shadowtherat]

Blueberry (1st), Egg (2nd), and Donut (3rd) all took some fun flower photos today! We found the white vase at a local thrift shop and its turned out to be a nice size for the standard girls - not sure how we’ll rearange this for the dwarfies lol, but I think we’ll figure something out!

[angie-the-rat-witch]

fuck it. Rat Tube

[cecelovesrats]

he really likes to sit there and look at people

[ratoiogy]

Litter Training

Probably one of the worst and hardest things I’ve ever had to do is convince my rats to shit in a single corner and stick with it. I’ve tried pee rocks before in the past with significantly poor luck. Maybe my old boys were just horrible slobs tho, could absolutely be that.

With my partner’s new rats, we started them as early as we could on a single substrate— the dust free pine shavings. We introduced the concept of a corner early by moving any stray poops to a designated corner. Once they got that idea, we introduced a litter tray. The most important part about toilet training is

1) giving them a big enough toilet to stand and turn around freely in

2) making the toilet a different substrate (important!)

We have paper pellets in ours, and the boys took to it stunningly. We put the tray in the same corner that we had been moving the poops to, and while we still have stray poops here and there, it’s fascinating to watch them climb out of bed and go back themselves up into their litter tray. 😂

[thebeanbaguette-archive]

It’s coming soon, it’s time to cheer, Rattober Season draws ever near… 🐀 🐀 🐁

Here’s a 2022 RATTOBER prompt list I made for myself to celebrate these wonderful pets. All are invited to participate in a month of ratty fun with me starting October 1st! One whole month to prepare ✨

🐁 Special thanks to everyone who looked over the list and offered ideas

🐀 Tag your posts with #rattober #rattober2022 #beansrattober

🐀 There are 31 prompts for 31 days. Follow along each day, or skip around, or do one weekly, etc. it’s all up to you! I like to post the prompt list a month early for plenty of prep time.

🐀 All prompts are meant to inspire an idea but not result in one image. Feel free to stretch the prompt however you see fit

🐀 Please no NSFW pieces in the tag

🐀 Any medium, ALL RATS!

[ratoiogy]

Stank eye mcgee

[corpsebod]

Hehe I am over there

Hohooo now I'm over here

[ratblazer]

Day 5: Bearded rat 🧙