Pet photo album

[Globalbloke (Tim)]

Mar 15, 2012 16:10:37 GMT Perpetua said:

Fantastic pictures and lovely stories to go with them all Global!

I should probably reveal that my name is Tim at this point, if I'm hanging about for a bit it only seems proper

[Chrissie]

Nice one Tim Glad to hear you will be hanging about for a bit

[beeratz]

Thought id add a couple of pics of my boys. Ive got pet rats, they are the most brilliant pets EVER and I absolutely adore them. I started with 4 boys in 2008 - Zeus, Achilles, Apollo and Morpheus and when they passed away I got my current bunch- Atlas, Hermes, Helios, Typhon, Chaos and Orion. Unfortunately Chaos had to be put to sleep about a month ago due to a tumour on his skull
Anyway pics
Chaos as a baby
Pretty Orion
Hermes
I'll have to try to find some good pics of the others, they can be difficult to get photos of sometimes lol just blurry ratlings.
Here's a pic of one of my doggys holly being daft squishing herself up on the chair. I can't find any pics of my other dog shamu (yep that's actually her name, my brother was 9 when he named her lol) so I'll take some and post them in the next few days.

[hissie]

Wonderful picture of your ratties bee. You dog looks well snuggled too.

I love rats, but have never had any. I did adopt 4 gerbils a while ago & I loved them to bits. They never failed to amuse me

Unfortunatly, last year, they all passed away one by one. I would just kinda get over one dying, then another one would go.

You must have a huge tank to keep them in, especially having that many. I had a proper gerbilarium (or whatever they are called). In fact I still have it. Not sure whether it would be too small for rats tho.

[hissie]

I love this thread

So many wonderful pets to admire

[beeratz]

Yep my rats live in a huge, almost 5ft tall cage!

Excuse the bedding that they have thrown out everywhere lol, I clean that up everyday and they still throw more out. I think they just enjoy trashing my bedroom haha. They are absolutely spoilt rotten! I rarely spend money on me (other than for my vaping stuff) all my spare cash goes on my pets lol they have me wrapped around their little paws!

[hissie]

Wow that is a cage & a half.

The one I kept the gerbils in was a glass tank at the bottom & wire cage on the top. It seemed big enough for them.

I also used to use bedding similar to the carefresh (i think that's what it called), but it was horse bedding & was loads cheaper. Didn't like the sawdust type stuff at all. Never used it.

[Karma]

Crikey, how do you manage to stop the dogs from eating the rats

[beeratz]

Yeah I use horse bedding too, I use ecobed. I use that for the main parts of the cage and then shredded paper in their sleeping houses. The shredded paper is the white bits all over my bedroom floor lol. The ecobed is brill stuff, I buy it a bale at a time at £20 and a bale lasts me about 3 months so it's well worth it, plus it keeps smells to a minimum and even though it's just cardboard squares it's surprisingly soft. The rats love digging in it as well as I scatter their food in it to make it more natural and enriching for them.

[beeratz]

I don't let the dogs near the rats, they're banned from my bedroom
I always make sure my door is closed so they can't get in to them.

[Karma]

Hope they don't learn to open your bedroom door like my friend's dog has just started doing

He's my dog's brother, who says that old dogs can't learn new tricks

[beeratz]

Luckily my carpet is so thick that you really have to give my door a good shove to open it and I've got one of those hook latches on the outside that I can put down when I close my door.
Speaking of being able to open doors though Holly is a master at opening the downstairs ones lol she's definitely has a collie brain! She also brings her brush to you when she wants to be brushed being part collie she's ball obsessed too

[Karma]

Yes Bee, part collie = very inteligent = very hard work, lol

[nicky]

Wow that's some cage Bee.

[magicma]

Lovely pics of all pets. MMa