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*

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[ratcreature]

Yeah. With actual food they're omnivores just like humans (that's why my pets' wild cousins like to make away with our food so much after all), and all inedible things are at least good to hone the teeth on.

There are a couple of things that are not good for rats, like some rat books say certain kinds of avocado are actually toxic for rats, and they should not be fed things that lead to gas (cabbage, legumes) though they are not as susceptible as rabbits to colic, and large amounts of stone fruits are bad for the cyanide traces (as they are so much smaller than human, the obviously get to toxic dosages much quicker), but otherwise all the dietary advice is more for their health just like human diet advice is (don't feed them refined sugar or too much fat, too high protein diet may be bad for their kidneys etc. etc.) not rules that you have to follow or it will drop dead.