Fuzzbuts!

Seth reporting again,

Sorry that a few days turned into a few weeks, exams do strange things to the flow of time.

Our pinkies have long since turned into fuzzbutts and are now fully fledge little ratlings.

Here are some pictures for you ~^_^~

This is our dark hooded boy. He's a deep chocolate brown colour now.

Ratling piles- like twister without the mat.

They were even more adorable when they started opening their eyes:


This is Winston (a girl) She was the first one to open her eyes. We nicknamed her that because I thought she looked like Churchill when she was a pinkie.



And this is what they looked like at the beginning of this week.

They were 4 weeks old today and mid-next week we'll be separating the boys (5) from the girls (8) to prevent any "accidents." And then before you know it they'll be off the their new homes :(

Pinkies!

Hi, Seth here.
(Trying to post again without the computer eating everything)

Florin dropped her litter on Friday, in the middle of the day. Typical Florin to go against everything we've read. ^_^
She had 14, but sadly one died in the night. She's doing just amazingly as a first time Mum with such a big litter. I don't think she's ever been happier or more proud of herself. She keeps coming over to me and bruxing like: "Look what I did!"

Here's a corner of the wriggly pile.

They're squeeking right now, probably fighting over poor Mum who doesn't have quite enough nipples. *peers* ... ^_^ I can just see some little legs trying to kick a brother out of the way ^_^

Most of them seem to be dumbo and taking after Mum in markings, although they're mostly variegated, there are a couple of lighter/darker ones that have me a bit confused. Their fur will come through in the next few days and then I can do some reverse genetics on Mum. I thought I'd got it all figured out from looking at her sisters, but that's the fun of genetics isn't it. (Geek alert)

Anyway! Here's a video of them all (it's a bit poor but there's a good shot of them all in there) and a picture of Mum helping herself to a snack ^_^.

I'll update again in a few days when the sausages have turned into fuzlets. ^_^

Prison Bar Blues.

Hi! Seth here.

We just put the girls back into their cage after an extra long weekend playtime but no matter how tired we get them, they never want to go home! So here are a couple of pictures of them using their evil psychological methods to make me take them back out again...



Here we have Pippin employing the: "I'm so adorable don't you just want to take me out and play with me" look.



Here's Penny using the "I want outta here so bad I'm gonna chew the bars" Guilt-trip method.

Bella is opting for the more subtle but no less heart-breaking "mournful staring" regieme.



And finally we have the oh-so-obvious, Mistress of Glaring "You will pay for incarcarating me!" Miss Florin. (She's quite scary.) 

Needless to say, if you're thinking of owning a rattie, make sure you have a heart of steel, or they'll take over your life, then your house and then... it's only a matter of time before I find Florin using my credit card to shop for cheesey puffs online!

Laters!