God! He's so big! And absolutely adorable. hahaha.
I love him already.

He's my big dumb squish. I love him to bits.

I've always wanted a rat but my mom hates them. I guess my chihuahua will be as close as it gets. LOL

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Rats love (Hate) nothing more than being cleaned XD

aww so cute ^^

XD I wish my rats were so chill about baths. I only bathe them if I REALLY have to, because they try to climb up my arms and get the heck out of the sink as fast as possible. A sudsy rat clawing its way up your arm = not fun.

Oh, it's still an experience. I've just gotten good at juggling them, and he held still juuuust long enough for me to snap a picture. Believe me, bathtime is full of lots of rats making flying leaps at my face repeatedly ;)

Some day, Gen, you should get Uriel to video that.

>w< niice. and he IS a big one D: but so adorable

Hehe

(hugs him)

Yeah, bath time was very unpopular with my girls. Dusty used to get seriously pissed off just by being put in the empty bathtub, loud angry-chitters and tail slapping abound!

aww

Man that reminds me, I need to bathe my boys, I am also out of Yogurt Drops somehow!
Greedy things that they are!

I've always wanted a rat, but they're illegal in Alberta, since it's a rat-free province (wild and domestic alike).

very cute dumbo there!

Beeg rat.

Smrt rat

Awsm rat

:D

I have a silly mental image of him going, "VENGEANCE SHALL BE ooh yogurt ..."

lol yogurt after a bath is like a lollipop after a shot XD

Such a cute little thing when he's squeaky clean....No pun intended, but it works well XD.

From now on I'll take "You look like a drowned rat" as a compliment. XP

My hairless rat is rather used to baths as in the summer she is in quite the state of mess. The furred one I think would rather take a trip upstairs to meet my snakes or brave the child rather than have a bath lol (no these rats are not food, yes I can have rats as pets as well as snakes, please no debates on this).

recently gave mine a bath, fattyrat kept trying to hop out of the tub

...He's gonna MURDER you so haaaaaaaaaard.

I haven't had the guts to try to bathe the girls yet....

They definitely need it, but I'm planning to start out gradually.
Since Spazz can actually get nippy when shes pissed off, (She never breaks the skin, but she does take a halfhearted nip when pushed too far,) I'm not looking forward to the experience.

-Badger-

There's little pet wipes you can use although I've heard that baby wipes work just as well as a method of cleaning them without having to dunk them. I had a rat with a skin condition for a little while and it required him to have weekly baths, poor little thing.

I had thought of damp paper towels- but the baby wipe idea sounds better to me.
Thanks.

Both my girls came out of a chain pet store where they were never handled or socialized.
(Stocked for live snake food, though they would never admit it....So the employees didn't spend any time on them.)

Getting them used to handling has been a slow process, as I only have a limited amount of time per day to play with them- but they are better than when I started.

Now they plaster themselves to the cage bars every time I come near, and want out.

-Badger-

Mine would start shaking themselves off almost immediately!

Oh noez! Poor ratty!

y u do dis? XD

*outraged* Who cleans rats >=| we're supposed to be clean regaurdless! D: *shiney rat fur of softness* <3*

really like his eyes and whiskers.

Woah! I knew you had rats for pets but I never knew they were this big. I guess that means more rat to cuddle and play with.

Irvine is the biggest rat I've ever had. Amusingly though all the rats push him around like nothing.

good to know I'm not he only one who refers to rats as "squishy"

Now that, ladies and gentleman, is a big old rat!