GRPP (gratuitous rat picture post)

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It's been a while since I posted pictures of my rats.


There is a disproportionate number of pictures that show them munching on rice waffles. That is because they sit still then, and are too busy with eating to bother investigating the camera. I can't count the number of times I get photographs of a tail with the rat vanishing off camera, or just a rat nose against the lense.

Leo & Noah:


Linus:


And Leo again:


Noah actually likes belly scritches (many rats are not so thrilled with them in my experience):


Sometimes he even lies down with his belly visible to invite scritches, however in the picture below he had just lost a scuffle and was just still playing dead and just lying very still as the loosing rat sometimes does (when he wants scritches he doesn't look so uncomfortable and like a dead rat):


However a moment later I used the opportunity to scritch his inviting belly anyway (and a bit later he relaxed):


And finally two more of Leo: