[stephigigo]

Re: Help me get Rats, have yours escaped? (Aiming for 100 vo

Well, another one of my rats escaped last week - bringing the total up to two escapees since September (my cage has a big plastic tunnel over it that sometimes comes loose).

When my boyfriend got up that morning he found the rat sat in the middle of the kitchen waiting for him because she wanted to go back to bed!

From my experience, it's not a problem if they escape. I think they enjoy the freedom for a bit but usually they want to go back in the cage and they even seem to get upset if they're out for too long and can't find the way back in.

I always shut the door to the rat room as well - so even if they do get out they can't leave the room. There's nothing they can damage in there either.

 

[Kathleen]

Re: Help me get Rats, have yours escaped? (Aiming for 100 vo

My boys are still small enough that they can slip through the bars of their cage. They don't for the most part, though. In fact, when I try to get them to free-range in my room, they just toddle back home...

On that note, Starbuck has gotten out before. I found him in my pillowcase. I didn't really mind.

 

[zombiedork]

Re: Help me get Rats, have yours escaped? (Aiming for 100 vo

Mine have yet to escape *knocks on wood*

 

[southpaw]

Re: Help me get Rats, have yours escaped? (Aiming for 100 vo

I've only had 2 rats, but in 2 1/2 years I never had an escape.
I had a Martins cage with a flip-top lid, and I never put the latches on the flip-top. I don't know how easy it would have been for them to escape that way, but they never tried to.

My hamsters, on the other hand, were very good at escaping. :?

 

[Crispen]

Re: Help me get Rats, have yours escaped? (Aiming for 100 vo

OK thanks guys, we might just get to 100 votes! lol

 

[Dravana]

Re: Help me get Rats, have yours escaped? (Aiming for 100 vo

I had an incident the other night where my rat Ziggy escaped, but it was my fault. My two rats have a makeshift playpen on top of our dining room table where their cage sits. We've been using the table for weeks because they won't jump off of it. We open the doors during the day and close the cage doors at night for their own safety. Oddly, they had a nasty sounding fight the previous night (my husband and I have never heard them do this before) this was full on rat screaming, not playful squeaks, and when we checked on them they just stopped and looked at us like "what?", so I really don't know what they were up to but it scared us to death and that's another story. Anyway, the next night we left the cage door open hoping that all the extra room on the table would prevent any quarrels during the night. I'd been dozing on and off for a few hours when I heard a very Ziggy-like sneeze. Being half asleep I asked my husband if that was him...no reply. So I checked things out and sure enough...Ziggy had been roaming our bedroom floor for who knows how long. Thank goodness she didn't get into any trouble and get herself hurt (we have so many cords everywhere in our house.) We still don't know if she fell off of the table by accident or decided to be daring and jump to a nearby chair. :roll:

So much for leaving the cage doors open at night like I'd been thinking of doing.

 

[CrazyBones]

Re: Help me get Rats, have yours escaped? (Aiming for 100 vo

My rats have escaped their cage. I didn't leave the cage door open, they opend it themselfs.

As they know where the door is and how it opens, they lift the door, or use their heads to bang it open.

Sadley, i found both female and male together, and im suspecting little ones in a weeks time.

Now i use heavy objects or paperclips to keep the doors closed

 

[Kathleen]

Re: Help me get Rats, have yours escaped? (Aiming for 100 vo

I have to add that, last night, I had Ahab and Starbuck out with me for several hours while I was reading in bed. I then put them back but Starbuck apparently didn't want to spend the night in his cage. Twice I woke up to him lying on me. LOL. I put him back the second time and made sure he was tucked into his hut before going back to sleep. He's stayed in there since.

I'd say that my boys are about a week or two away from being too big to slip through the bars. I'm waiting for that time. I really don't mind Starbuck getting out (his forays last night make escape numbers three and four; Ahab's never gotten out) but I'd feel more comfortable if he was only out when I'm there (and awake) to supervise.

 

[Volkl]

Re: Help me get Rats, have yours escaped? (Aiming for 100 vo

Once upon a time when i was younger and living with my parents, one of my girls discovered how to open her cage door (cheap cage, the door was a bit loose). she escaped while the other much more shy girl stayed in the cage.

she decided it would be fun to go visit people, but she got to see me all the time! that would be boring. she ran down the hallway and into my parents' bedroom. my mother awoke to a strange noise. she looked for where the noise was coming from and all of a sudden, a little rat head popped out of her purse to say "hello!"

my mother isnt a rat person so it was interesting to say the least.

 

[Crispen]

Re: Help me get Rats, have yours escaped? (Aiming for 100 vo

:lol:

almost at one hundred!