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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Harry's doing ok with the litter training, a damn site more than can be said for Master Pappercrapper! But.... he's doing it in the cage now so that's something, and I've got a hell of a lot of litter stuff here so he better get his ass on the stuff! I was looking at it the other day and I thought I reckon I have enough litter for a few generations! They like their walk the plank system, Archie has taken to bouncing down the plank! He's funny when he gets on there, reminds me of tigger to be honest, he sort of bounces and skips down! Harry walks down the first plank then when he gets on the second one he runs like hell, I make a den at the bottom and they dive in there then we fight, they run out the back and I get them, they run out the front then I get them, they think it's great fun, I hope they do anyway, I mean they could be saying oh god that pests here again!! The other day Harry jumped out from the den and nearly ended up in my mouth( and don't say you must have a big mouth!!) Then he ran over my shoulder and away! They go back to the cage for snacks and the litter (Archie just goes anywhere in the cage!) I gave then a cornetto box, now I've spent a fortune on beds and Archie has ate his way through the bunker, since the box went in to play with Harry's been in the bunker and Archie has taken to living in the cornetto box! I see his nose peek out now and again but you can see he's saying "this is my box back off!" So I've been saving boxes for when it needs changing.
I've been trying them on different foods, some they like some they don't but porridge seems to be the firm favourite, I tried it with banana in but they didn't like that so now I leave it just plain and they seem happy with that. A lot of the things I bought like the wine sticks, fruit wood branches, they haven't really shown any interest in, hope they do soon cause they'll have teeth down to the floor if they don't start gnawing on something! Archie bites his nails then very kindly spits them across the floor, or if he's sitting on the back of the settee he'll spit them at you, Archie has such manners! He sneezes in your face from time to time, very charming I have to say! Harry's sneezing has stopped and Archie's are just the odd one now and again so that's not so bad, sooner he stops the better tho! Harry is a hell of a lot bigger than Archie now, don't know if this is normal?
Harry has become as naughty as Archie, this morning I left them for about 30 seconds and when I came back Harry was running across the desk with a photo of Kay in his mouth, not sure if it's cause they like her or fancied chewing her to bits!
We've been building bigger and bigger dens for the boys, getting quiet adventurous to be honest then................... yesterday after dismantling it we found one of the cushins had been eaten!!! A couple of years ago I bought the covers at an Asian festival we have here in August, I quiet liked them!!! I have no idea which one of the two did it but they both had the grace to look guilty! So the den was dismantled, I put a fort house on the settee and put the fleece blanket over it , last night I discovered they've decided to start eating the covers off the settee!! It's not as if they aren't fed I have to say! I think letting them loose on the floor might have to wait a little while longer to be honest, I'll have no house left if I let them loose at the moment!
The other pic shows Archie manicuring his nails and kindly spitting them at me! Mind you he was probably saying get away with that camera for goodness sake! He's still not using the litter tray, uses the same corner of the cage all the time tho. Harry has for reasons only known to Harry been slowly but surely putting the little cardboard squares from the bottom of the cage into the litter tray so now you can't see the littler! Harry often comes out for a play around in the mornings where as Archie is not a morning rat so there's no signs of him at the moment! Harry has now decided to eat the settee covers so I think I'll go sort him out before I have no covers in the whole house!
The last picture shows Harry in the now demolished den, to be honest i lifted the cover up and took the pic quick and it makes Harry look quiet spooky!! Kay say's he's starting to look like a mini polar bear these days!
Posted by : Jason Hulott @ Wednesday, March 21, 2007
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