#rat owner

[clown-heist]

Cùmbêr 🥒🐀

#rat #rat owner #rodent #domestic rats #domestic rat

[vrtllyurs]

#rats #rat owner #baby #so cute

[kinqzaddy]

Love how my heart rat, Sweet Thing, just shoves herself down my shirt and burrows into it whenever she feels like it.

#kinqzaddy #rat #rodent enthusiast #rat owner #rat parent #rats are the best

[bebx]

be kind to all animals ♡ — (source)

#wholesome #rat #rats #cute #animal #animals #be kind #kindness #positivity #cottagecore #cozy #cozycore #mice #mouse #inspiring #inspo #pet owners #gardencore #nature #naturecore #inspiration #inspirational

[peppermint-rat]

Excellent things about rats:

-Friendly, polite, gentle (assuming they are well handled), very rarely bite

-Give u lots of kisses

-Teeny hands

-Fat and warm

-Make crunchy sounds and wiggle their eyes when happy

-Groom themselves constantly (and look cute doin it)

-Can be taught tricks

-Love to cuddle, especially in your sleeve or pocket

-Sometimes carry things so big they have to hop to run

-Twitchy whiskers

-Have been shown to free their friends before eating so everyone can eat

-Actually laugh when tickled (almost inaudible)

Rat enthusiasts feel free to add

#i got to cuddle with a rat for the first time in like 10 years the other night #achieved ultimate praise which was 'he never cuddles like that with me' #his owner came over and sat next to me #and he climbed over to say hi #but then came right back to me to cuddle more #rat #rats #ratblr

[todaysbird]

#this is very real for me as a rat owner #rat #ratblr #petblr #not birds #other animals

[mammalidentifier]

I’ve got good news for you! The rabies virus evolved to affect warm-blooded animals and requires temperatures around 36°C to 38°C (97°F to 100°F) to thrive. Which is the body temperature of your average placental mammal. Marsupials, however, have average body temperatures in the range of 35°C (95°F) and monotremes even lower, at 31°C (87°F)! 

This means that marsupials (even your average virginia opossum) are too cool to get rabies. Literally! It’s not impossible for them to get infected with it and there have been documented cases, but it’s very, very rare. Not only that, but also since most mammals in Australia are marsupials and monotremes, the rabies virus is considered practically inexistent over there! So the Australian possums from that post have zero chances of giving you rabies. Being placental mammals, it’s much more likely that a colugo would get infected with it, but by what I’ve been able to gather from some cursory research, it’s not common for them to be exposed to the virus. I haven’t been able to find a single documented instance.

I’ve also got some bad news, though: you still can’t hold them because they’re wild and have teeth and claws. 😔 None of these animals grow very large but as someone who has been badly bitten by a very angry rat once, small animals ≠ painless bites.

#In case anyone’s wondering the rat bit me because her owner gave me her *newborn babies* to hold without warning #Her maternal instincts kicked in and she bit the shit out of one of my fingers. Her teeth fully pierced my fingernail. #It took a few days for it to stop hurting enough for me to actually use it again

[eternalglitch]

By the way, re: a life update post I made last month to those that saw it:

I still have all three rats! I am quite literally nursing one back to health by hand as she luckily still had/has a good shot at a full recovery and the medication started working so she's acting fairly normal.

#glitch speaks #such is the life of a rat owner #VERY fragile little guys #I have been to the vet like 6 times this year so far

[final-girl-lorde]

Rats dont live very long (google tells me 2-4 years but the oldest known pet rat lived to 7!) So there is something very special to me about neil banging out his tunes. Its 2023, Neil's probably been gone for a long long time. But people still remember him, they love him and his tunes enough to circulate them around every single year :,)

#neil banging out the tunes #wahhhhhhhhhhh just a little rat #i hope he somehow knew he was so so loved #i hope his owners can see how much their little rat is still loved to this day

[fjordfolk]

i love the insistence on whether danish swedish farmdogs are still kept for their "original working purpose" because it's not like they're a hunting breed adapted to a specific way of hunting moose or ptarmigan in a specific environment or herding dogs for specific livestock. do they still live around people voluntarily? yes. do they still bark at strangers? yep. kill things small enough to be interpreted as vermin? sure thing! 100% true to their ancestors and as much of a working dog as they ever were.

#traits extremely easy to maintain #read a post a while ago by someone who'd taken their dsfs to a workshop where the owner was p sure he had rats #took them in to see if they could find the source or entry point. #1st dog marks under a cupboard. takes it around. marks positive a 2nd time. great #bring the other one in. marks in the exact same place. immediately. excellent #take the dogs back out. move the cupboard to see whats under it and find #half of an old wheat bun.

[sallllltywater]

I don't even know why the hell on earth i spend 10 minutes try to draw Ska without armor, might just curious how it would be… And turned out just awww cute… sorry for acting like this

#i still like them in armor i like armor #armor is the soul and way to identify them(? #be like i need so long to identify different fancy rats #when i follow a rat owner…

[vrtllyurs]

✰ about me/about the blog lol ✰

💕 my name is helena (yes like the mcr song) and my prns are she/her :D

💕 i love and have rats, but i rly love all animals so u may see be reblog some silly little goofy guys :P

💕 ill mainly be shitposting about drag race, sims 4, and def some other stuff too im just too lazy to list it out

💕 i loveee y2k (specifcally mcbling/trash) so ill prob be reblogging nostalgia accounts and maybe even some irl photos of me lookin fine ;)

💕 my favorite color is pink (if u couldnt tell ;-;) but a close second would be black!

💕 i also love love lvoe lady gaga but here is my playlist as well im still adding to it so shush

upd. 3/27/23

#about this blog #about me #spencer shay fan account #sims4 #the sims 4 #phoebe bridgers #drag race #willow pill #willowpillfanaccount #no really this time im telling the truth #lady gaga #y2k #mcbling #rats #rat owner #pink #Spotify

[madamrynodm]

Getting in the Halloween spirit with everyone's favorite... whatever they all are. We don't know and it's best not to think about it too hard

Also kinda sorta drew these for concepts in a Hotel-themed D&D oneshot I'm trying to draft up

#drawing #the hotel podcast #madam hotel #the owner #the manager #the lobby boy #a rat #halloween time #let's get spooky #the hotel fanart #cw: gore

[gnarlystarships]

so in pokemon go they have like seasonal stickers you can send with gifts to your friends. so like right now you can get autumnal ones from pokestops and stuff. and as far as i know its the same for the whole world? Like idk for sure, but I think people who are in the southern hemisphere are also getting the autumn stickers and stuff even though its spring for them.

ANYWAYS. I always keep a few leftover stickers from previous seasons on hand. just in storage. because I have (at least) 1 friend who is in Australia. and she doesn't play that often but whenever she does and she opens my previous gift it delights me to send her a gift with a sticker for the correct season she's in rn lol. So like right now I just sent her a gift with one of the springtime stickers I had saved from before. and im like <:)

#i dont know that this is comprehensible #but i feel like a cat proudly bringing a dead rat to its owner #everytime i send her a Correct Season sticker #i literally dont even know her i dont even remember how we became friends LOL #but i know shes from aus because all the gifts she sends me are from aus #pokemon #pokemon go #ograt

[catboygirlboss]

hey fellas if you have any pictures of your pet rats can i pls see them 👉🏻👈🏻 im really missing mine from… i think 2019?? im pretty sure i had them pre 2020. wow. time.

rip pumpkin and spice, my sweet baby girls 🙏🏻

#rats #ratblr #tagging so that rat owners will actually see this post lmao

[deadsh33p]

My favourites on pajamas

#my art #my favourites aka edward nygma #batman #nygmobblepot #harley quinn #harleen quinzel #edward nigma #riddler #bruce wayne #selina kyle #catwoman #batcat #GOD SO MANY TAGSS #oswald cobblepot #penguin #the penguin #edward is a rat lover btw #proud rat owner #tw sh scars #bruce hates this btw #edward the dog #gotham #wasnt gonna tag this as gotham because technically it isnt but #the dog is here. soo #RIDDLEBIRD #almost forgot the tag