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

[auroramama]

Um, maybe they produce an organic version of Febreze? Cats don't mark people with the same smelly pee they use to mark territory (or they wouldn't be nearly so popular); they rub their faces (with scent glands) agsinst people instead. Perhaps rats have scent glands that neutralize the pee smell on their own bodies.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, I guess they could have scent glands. At least overall rat pee is not as bad as cat pee, probably because they are not meat eaters. Also smaller, so there's less of it, lol. So having male rats is not as smelly as an uncastrated tomcat.