Playtime!

one day it occurred to me that perhaps our bed would be a perfect rat playground and turns out I was right!
the ratties are now allowed to play in our bed and they love it! there's a big blanket that's perfect for tunneling and stuffed animals that provide perfect hiding spaces!
Nixon loves to eat her treats under my stuffed polar bear. the bed gives Garbo access to the window which she likes a lot. Garbo knows how to get down from the bed but when she's on the floor she's being good and she doesn't spend much time under the bed so I'm not too worried about letting roam around on the floor. Nixon hasn't figured that out yet but I'll let her do that in her own time. she's a lot less daring than Garbo and it seems like she's actually worried about getting hurt unlike Garbo who jumps head first into all kinds of trouble and often ends up falling down (luckily Garbo has an alert mommy who does her best to catch her!)

today the ratties were extra playful and we played a fun game together. I have some cereal in the shape of stars that have a little hole in the middle so I put some string through them and the ratties were chasing them around and once they caught the string with the treat they had to figure out how to detach the treat from the string. Garbo even started doing some of the tricks she has learned just so she could have an extra treat! Garbo walked in a circle and stood up on her hind legs for me so I think she deserved the extra treat :)
Nixon liked chasing the string around even when there wasn't a treat on it so we did that for a while too. of course there are some crumbs in the bed now from Nixon eating under the blanket and under my polar bear.

I've taken lots of rattie pictures again since the bed is a great surface for them to play on. this way I can sit in the bed while they play and interact with them while they run around without having them go too far away from me. it's good for socialization and rattie picture taking!

I've also made some clips because my mom requested to see some. I guess that means that I'll have to send her a link to this blog.

now that playtime is over for today I'm off to study some biology and the ratties are preparing for a nap.