all is well at the rat house.

well now it looks like the rats have started to go in the litter box again.
maybe putting all the little "raisins" in there helped them remember what it was for. who knows!

Garbo has become quite an adventurer. she always was but now she'll go crazy if I have to put her back in the cage. she'll literally start chewing on the bars and chattering her teeth with frustration. it's actually very sad to watch but as I've said before - when they get too impossible they have to go back in the cage until they've calmed down. unfortunately it doesn't seem to calm her down until I've left the room. when I'm not in the room it's kinda like nobody's "teasing" her. I just had one of these situations with her but since I'm in the bedroom now it sounds like she's calm. poor Nixon who hasn't gotten to stay in the living room for that long today nor yesterday :( I just don't want to keep her out while Garbo has to go back inside the cage so I always put both of them in there. it's not really fair when both get punished for something only one of them did but at the same time it keeps Garbo calm. Nixon is very adaptable anyways. and she usually just goes and takes a nap when she gets back in the cage.

Garbo is a smart one (aren't all rats though?)
just now she figured out that if she runs into the dining room I will follow and try to catch her. eventually she figured that if she lets me catch her - she can climb up on my shoulder and get a ride back to the living room this way. so she started doing this and actually just stopped so I could grab her. she didn't even resist because she just wanted to get up on my shoulder. Garbo knows that shoulder rides mean being able to explore places at new heights. such as the book case or the second shelf in the hallway closet. the book case was very interesting to her. I should have taken a picture of her sitting on top of the toy dinosaur that we have in the book case! I wonder why Nixon never does anything like this. lately all she's been wanting to do is sit under the couch or lick the plates we might have left in the living room :/

speaking of Nixon and licking - we shared a soda can today. not a SODA because rats can't drink carbonated drinks but we did share the CAN itself. with me obviously drinking the contents of it and Nixon licking off the condensation that had formed on the can :D team work occurs at the rat house.

well I suppose that's it for now.
I did take a picture of her in the book case but it's not on the computer yet.
will probably post it later.