Rattitude

(ignore my dirty and dog hair covered bathroom floor, just look at rattie cuteness)

Nibbitz and One of Two had two firsts today.

The first first was that they got their very first free-roaming time in the bathroom today.

The bathroom is the only room in the house where it is SAFE for the girls to run and play and explore and I know the dogs wont get them and I won’t accidentally loose them

I pictured myself having to scurry and chase them around the bathroom from corner to corner trying to re-capture them.  I was pleasantly surprised.  While they were a little jumpy and flinched when I moved, they didn’t run from me.

In fact, Nibbitz kept coming back TO me while she was exploring!

When I was ready to put them back in their cage I had no problem catching them, other than reaching One of Two who had hidden behind the toilet.

Then, when I was thinking about how WELL their first free-roaming went, I thought…..I should introduce them to Ezri.

So, their second first was meeting my big squishy butt rat girl.

The introduction also went really well!

For the longest time they didn’t even NOTICE each other.  When they did I expected Ezri to be a little rough with them, to pin them down and groom them.  But she didn’t.  There was just some mutual fanny sniffing.

They acted as if they had known each other for a while and not like rats meeting for the first time.  Maybe its just cause Ezri is so old, she didn’t feel like having to proove her “Top Rat” status.

The little girls did try to entice her to play.  Nibbitz and One of Two kept taking turns crawling over her back.  She’s so much bigger than them, but I’m sure they’ll catch up soon.

Ezri, however, mostly ignored the girls.  She waddled and sniffed and groomed herself, and made happy rat noises, and groomed herself some more.

As you can tell by the pictures, our little One of Two is a little bit bashful.  She’s a little scared by the camera’s pop up flash, so I dont get too many clear pictures of her.

However, when she was tired of exploring, she came to me and put her paws on my leg.  I put my hand in front of her and she hopped up in my palm, then climbed up on my shoulder and just sat.  She is such a sweetie.

I decided not to introduce Luka today because she wasn’t feeling too good.  Poor baby.