random rat post

[ratcreature]

Why is it that rats themselves can smell so awesome, when their pee smells just like smelly pee? Seriously, rats themselves smell very nice: If you bury your nose in their fur it is a pleasant smell, much better than most other animals I've smelled up close (admittedly mostly cats and dogs so the comparison sample is small). And yet -- they pee in their sleeping spaces where they then lie down, and they pee on each other anyway, but while I smell like gross rat pee when they inevitably mark me or my clothes, they come out smelling like roses. Well not roses, but a nice non-pee smell. I just don't get it.

Comments

[draigwen]

Probably because they spend so much time washing themselves! I particularly love the smell of does - particularly when they smell pepperminty. But even my boys smell lovely ... most of the time ...

[ratcreature]

Yeah, it must be something like that. Mine only smell bad if they just got peed on.