random rat post

[ratcreature]

I forgot about my coffee mug still having a rest in it, and apparently Linus likes coffee. I had to pick him up from balancing on the rim of my mug, lapping it up. Well, at least I got to him before he drank more than a mouthful, because I'm sure caffeine is not good for rats, also these guys really don't need to be any more hyper. As it is they've torn down a whole chunk of my wallpaper recently and are still trying to intermittently investigate the underside of my (glued down) carpet.

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[ratcreature]

I already get glimpses with Leo, who has very sweet moments when he dozes curled up on or next to me.

What I really wonder how lab rats don't go all crazy in these tiny boring cages they are kept in. I mean, I remember that film from a few years ago in which someone put a colony of lab rats in an outdoor area to dispute these claims that they are bred so that they don't even want to climb and dig and explore anymore, and they did not have precisely wild instincts of course (so they were kept in an area with a fence that kept predators out and food was relatively easy to find), but they found shelter, made nests, looked for food, climbed and explored. And actually the film maker wasn't even anti-animal experimentation, iirc, the argument was that all the data would be even more messed up than it already is from the animal/human differences, because they are kept in such awful conditions.