#rat pics

[thesideblog101]

[tesseractj]

Science, you were so loved.

Like most rats, I adored her from the start. I was so excited to get a rat named Science! She came to me with Bubblegum and Candy, and I'd later learn that this was a reference to Adventure Time.

Science could bite a bit at first, but she became a loving and laid back rat who enjoyed lots of people and other rats. She gained weight after her spay and we worked on healthy eating and using the wheel more. She preferred to walk in the wheel and not run.

Science was able to make friends with nearly any rat, even if I was having trouble introducing them to all the rest. She was eager to meet her new friends, and recent played with baby rats. She was delighted by them much like any old lady

Science's aging started with HLD, then her eyes starting paling and getting strange occlusions, like crystals, in them. Her final issue was a tumor. The tumor, blindness and HLD slowed her down, but she remained happy and content right until this morning.

A barely graphic description, and end of life, under the cut

Last night I could tell the small wound on her tumor wouldn't heal. It was bleeding more and skin was started to be lost around the edges. This weak spot had existed for around 4 weeks but been and to heal nicely with help. Now it was open and likely to get infected. So I arranged her final Vet appointment.

There's so much more to making this decision, but it's a lot to go into

This morning I gave her the best of the foods she loved

Looks yummy, right? She enjoyed a bunch of it too.

I wiped her down with a washcloth until she let me know she didn't want to be groomed anymore.

Finally, I took her to the Vet, where we said goodbye. All my doubts were washed away as I saw that the wound had started to show signs of infection. In her final moments, I held her and told her she did the best job and was so loved, and to please find her sisters and tell them I miss them too.

Science lived an amazing 3 years and 1 month plus about a week. I had her for over 2 years.

[igrab]

rat👏medicine👏 (extremely overdue)

ft. Sunday (or Sundae depending on who you ask, left) and Umeboshi (nickname Hamsterface)

i think the tail in the first pic is also umeboshi fwiw

[t-boy-puppyyy]

need to start looking at haircuts. Might go back to my favs

[rollmeagoddamnblunt]

Light box was definitely a success! Look at how sweet they are!

[murloc]

my rat... 

[raxit-rat]

Just a clarification

Because I was lied to a couple years back.

So before I had rats and was just thinking about them I would look up cute pictures on Google images and share them with my friends/family

Well one time I did this one of them made the comment, as if it were fact.

"most of those pictures are fake, they actually kill the rats then pose them like that for the picture"

Note this is for a picture of a sleeping rat with like a teddy bear or something.

Nobody has ever taxidermied a rat well, it's literally never been done, their fur and skin is too thin to remain life-looking when they're taxidermied.

So just rest assured that all the cute rat pictures you see are in fact real and not fake unlike some idiots believe. Rats are 100% capable of being adorable 24/7 without any human assistance.

[darklingghoul]