randomness

[ratcreature]

I still had some leftover squash from the butternut squash risotto I made this weekend and with all the US Thanksgiving talk on my f-list I decided to bake a small pumpkin pie. So this was what I had for dinner... Well, it's not like there isn't a tradition of sweet main dishes and this even has a vegetable in it.

I've also been reading a lot of Star Trek and SGA Bigbang stories, though because of the ST Bigbang I haven't yet read that many of the SGA stories. I've been wondering whether I shouldn't do an extra Bigbang recs post for the stories I enjoyed that weren't AUs (those will of course end up in the next AU recs post).

My rats continue to be adorable. Linus in particular always wants to groom me, climb into my clothes, and even likes to cuddle and to be petted. He actually sometimes stays still for that, which is a great feat for a young rat. I could do without his love for the inside of my clothes though. And I do not care at all for two or three rats to start roughhousing while inside my sweatshirt. Their flailing limbs have too many claws for that.

BTW I don't know whether I mentioned this, but Linus looks kind of funny because he lost the tip of his tail in an accident when he was really tiny. The breeder thinks his mother somehow dropped their house on his tail tip so a bit got cut off. Sometimes rats just aren't the sharpest knife in the drawer. But it healed really well and he learned climbing with a shorter tail so it doesn't bother him, and it's not like I got them as show rats, but his tail is a few centimeters shorter than normal. It's somehow more noticeable now that he gets more properly rat sized though, rather than being really tiny.

Comments

[basingstoke]

so cute! I want to snorgle their little ears!

[ratcreature]

Hee. I actually tried tickle games on them because I read in some article that young rats laugh and are ticklish and like it. So far only Linus really seems to. He actually comes back to have his sides and belly tickled, and likes tumble games with my hands as much as with each other. It's adorable.

[hugglewolf.livejournal.com]

They are awesome! Poor wee Linus! *hugs ratty*

[ratcreature]

Yeah, it must have been some bad luck. But with such young animals tail injuries are less problematic than when they injure them older, I think. And it's still plenty long enough for him to balance and to regulate his temperature (which is the other thing rats need their tails for).