Unusual things our rats do

[Smilebud]

my rats... oh, my rats... those goofs dont know how to use, ahem, go down, the ladder between the levels of their ferret nation, so the sleep up top and have no problem getting up, but in the morning i have to bring them down so they can drink, use their litterbox and laze in thier favourite hammock. The thing is, they will only ever sleep in the top section. Never in the bottom.

[SIN_sarah]

I would love it if my rats did this, less cleaning lol

It was pretty good and did make it easier to clean but as soon as she went in a bigger cage it all stopped. she pretty much litter trained herself LOL

[Jan Jinkle]

Sometimes I'll sit in front of the cage and put arm in while I play on my phone or something, and my boys, Sev and Zeke will play around on my arm and shoulders. But one of Zeke's favorite things is to play peek-a-boo. We both duck down below the top of my arm, then I pop up and say "Peek-a-boo!" then as soon as he pops his head up, I put mine down. Then just keep repeating until he starts grooming my arm. It's adorable!

[graphite]

My rat Ezio will go all the way to the bottom of the fn, rip a long strip of newspaper off the floor, then carry it ALL the way to the top of the cage, tripping on it several times, just to stuff it inside a hammock, and repeat. even though there is newspaper up there by the hammock. lol

[brebre]

My ratties are just spiteful about the litterbox! They always purposefully land their poops right outside the box. So I thought I'd get them a bigger box and… they still do this.
They also like to give me manicures and they will only eat sunflower seeds from the mixed foods, so I have to give them oxbow too. Stuart also runs her teeth across the bars along the length of the cage…
*Sigh*

[Cypher]

Mine are fairly sane so far, although, especially when I first got her, Knives would constantly scale the walls of her cage. She never uses the ramps to go up, just climbs the walls. And when she's out she tries to climb everything else too...

[Babs]

I was looking at this and thinking "hmm, my rats are weird but I can't think of anything they do" and then I walked over to the girls cage and Jess was practising a new sleep position



I took that picture well over an hour ago and she still hasn't moved!

[JessyGene]

Speaking of litter boxes, one of mine likes to eat in their litter box.

My Jimi does this too! As soon as I give him a lab block he prances over to the litter box and eats it there. Luckily he doesn't stash food there, he just likes to sit in the litter while he eats haha

[aripatsim]

Babs, that picture is adorable!

My rats like to sleep on their heads, too! And everytime my rats yawn they always stick their right arm out lol

[steviej1980]

IMG_0708.jpgC.R. likes to hang from the pod