well, I guess this explains why I couldn't find that eraser.

[ratcreature]

It was mostly eaten by the furry menaces cohabiting with me. I either must have dropped it, or they made away with it when I didn't look. I found the stubby remnant (less than a fourth of it's original size) below a shelf today. It's a wonder rats don't all die from bowel obstruction and the like considering that they insist on gobbling up inedible stuff. Well, in practice rubber seems mostly harmless for them, they chew it up in small pieces and those aren't sharp or anything, so unlikely to injure. But still. I give them plenty of tasty stuff, why did they have to eat my eraser? It was one that I quite liked because it worked well too. *sigh*

Comments

[nacbrie]

Oh, dear. My previous rat managed to chew through the cabling of about ten different appliances (without harm!), and the current lot have destroyed a couple of towels and sofa cushions ... but they're so cute, you can't even be annoyed at them for very long.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, I'm very familiar with the damage their teeth do. Mine have destroyed many cables as well. Among them that of my DVD player (unfortunately sort of fixed to it on the one end, so not easily replaced), though at least they let the cables that are going to the outlets mostly alone (my building is old and the electricity connections haven't been put beneath plaster). I've finally found a decent and affordable cable protection which is a tubing intended to bundle a cable mess from IKEA. Cheap, and it takes them a while to chew through it.

They also destroyed the USB cable of my tablet, which is so thing that it basically only takes two bites for them to get through the insulation and sever it. I have temporarily fixed it with tape, but the tablet never has been the same. (On the bright side I probably wouldn't have tried acrylics if they hadn't eaten my means for digital coloring.) Several earbud headphones were a total loss as the cable of those are so thin that it takes a rat only one curious bite to sever.

Prior rats ruined one feather duvet when I wasn't careful about putting it away. (It's now synthetic cushions and blankets, which cope much better with chewing damage, as they don't spill feathers everywhere with a tiny hole.)

Previous ones also chewed on rare signed (with art!) comic editions when my rat proofing turned out to be not so rat proof.

My carpet has been chewed on as has most furniture... so in the grand scheme the eraser is very minor damage. (I think people who can't cope with damage to stuff shouldn't live with animals, I mean my siblings cats and dogs certainly did enough damage with their claws and teeth as well, and at least rats' peeing is constant rather than them taking revenge on you.)