Meet the new rats!

[Zonlover]

YAAAaAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A few hours ago we brought home 2 adorable, 5-week-old, male rats! YYYAAAAAAAAYYYY!!!!! (Sorry I can't help myself.)
One is black hooded, and one is black with white on his belly! They. Are. So. Stinking. Adorable!!! And tiny!
Um. So. Pictures. Weeelll. They are a little bit.... ridiculously fast. So, prepare yourself for loads of blurry photos. Gimme a minute.

 

[Zonlover]

@Mizzely @BirdWorld @Aves @ParrotNuts

 

[Kiwi & Co.]

 

[Zonlover]

Here's the black hooded boy.

 

[Zonlover]

The hooded boy is bolder and friendlier, whereas the black boy would rather stay hidden.

Here's the black boy peeking out from inside his "safe box".

 

[Mizzely]

Yaaay!! Love me some rat pups! Congrats!

(I think out of hundreds of photos of my boys like 6 came out good )

 

[AlisaL]

The hooded boy is bolder and friendlier, whereas the black boy would rather stay hidden.

Here's the black boy peeking out from inside his "safe box".
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They are so cute I can hardly stand it! Congrats!

 

[jzarc17]

Absolutely adorable! Congratulations on your new babies

 

[Sparkles99]

Congratulations! What are you going to call them? I like the climbing one.

 

[DesertBird]

Congratulations! They are super cute.

 

[Sunni Tiel]

Congrats! They're so tiny!

 

[AussieBird]

Yyyyaaaaayyyy!!!!
Ahem, why wasn't i tagged?

 

[ParrotNuts]

Yay!!!
They are cute!!!

 

[SeñorBirb]

Rats are so cute idk why so many people think that pet rats are bad/gross

 

[Zonlover]

What are you going to call them?

The Berkshire one(that's the color pattern of the shy one) is Benji, I'm pretty sure. I have loads of ideas for the other one, but I can't decide!

 

[Zonlover]

Yyyyaaaaayyyy!!!!
Ahem, why wasn't i tagged?

Oh, whoops, I forgot! I also didn't want to go tagging a massive horde(hoard? Hord? Horde? Idk).

 

[Sparkles99]

In this context, horde. Benji's a great name for a rat.

 

[Zonlover]

I got a half decent picture!

 

[Dartman]

When I was a little boy we had rats and mice. The rats especially were very social and tame. We had white, hooded, and black rats that looked like a wild rat. The black ones were new to the pet trade and my best friend was Ratty who rode around with me every where I went. He loved getting his head stroked, getting treats, and riding on my shoulder or in a pocket if I had a safe one for him. This was in the mid sixties. We also had Gerbils and a hamster much later.

 

[Zonlover]

Last night was my second night of having them. I missed those little rat noises so much. Thud, bump, squeak, cage bar twanging noise, rustle, crunch crunch crunch. They haven't figured out how to use the water bottle yet, so I don't have the "click click click click click click click click click click click" noise yet.