Hey there, O-zies! How are you all today? I hope that you are relaxed and well-rested- so you can share some of that with me. LOL!!!
Rat sitting for the babies has been, shall we say a bit difficult? Panic inducing? Full-on freakout?
Before I get started, yes they are fine. (I am practicing for when I have to tell this to Caitlyn)
When I went to bed on Tuesday, I checked on them and the babies were in the medical cage, the big girls in the regular one. Cait had left the ceiling fan running and her door open so it wouldn't get too stuffy in there so that is the way I left it. I decided to check on them before I went food shopping and THANK GOD I DID!!!!!!! Evie escaped. She (or Imogene although she was sleeping in the hammock) popped open the cage door and was gone. All I could think was holy **** the door was open, she could be anywhere in the house. I closed the bedroom door and looked for her in her regular hiding spots in the room and whew, she was hiding between the bed and heating vent. Evie does *not* like to be handled, is super fast and squirmy so every attempt that Gary and I made to grab her was fruitless.
One good thing about the babies is they know how to put themselves back into the big cage, so I opened the top doors and put some treats up there and she scrambled inside. Took me a few tries, but I was able to grab her and pop her back into the small cage, and used a ring/clip to keep the door closed. In the afternoon, I went back upstairs to play with them a bit and they had tried to open the door but the ring held it almost all the way closed. So far, so good.
But wait! There's more!
W is whining at me at 2.30 am and I was hoping that she would jump back on the bed and go to sleep if I ignored her. As I am laying there, I hear a small crash/thud that sounded like it was from upstairs. I get out of bed, run upstairs and the cage is open and both babies are gone. They had pushed against the door so hard that they popped the ring open. I found it halfway across the floor. These are the same rings that Cait uses to hold the hammocks to the cage bars so they can hold the weight of several rats securely. Both babies were under the big cage so I decided that I was going to let them back into the big cage for good. I was going to put them in there at some point today since they are 1-week post-op but I wasn't planning on doing it in the middle of the night. They are so darn naughty. [tsk tsk smilie]. I put in some cheerios and they scrambled up the side of the cage and went right inside. Cordelia and Liv seemed very happy to see them and all four were running around to get the cheerios.
I am still cleaning out the cabinets b/c those pantry pests are still popping up. So disgusting. My mental downtime (as if!!) was trying to get ACDSee working again and it is running -- for now. Talk to me in a few days and see where I am at.
I am cleaning for my friend today and will be trying to get my hands on the babies to make sure they didn't bother their incisions with their nighttime escapes. ha-- I meant to type "escapades" but escapes works just as well.
Never dull here. SMH. Even when it is boring, there is *always* something weird going on. It might be a good day to wear steel-toed boots when I clean since I am going to be at my weapon-collecting friend's. LOL
Have fun!! xoxo
Rat sitting for the babies has been, shall we say a bit difficult? Panic inducing? Full-on freakout?
Before I get started, yes they are fine. (I am practicing for when I have to tell this to Caitlyn)
When I went to bed on Tuesday, I checked on them and the babies were in the medical cage, the big girls in the regular one. Cait had left the ceiling fan running and her door open so it wouldn't get too stuffy in there so that is the way I left it. I decided to check on them before I went food shopping and THANK GOD I DID!!!!!!! Evie escaped. She (or Imogene although she was sleeping in the hammock) popped open the cage door and was gone. All I could think was holy **** the door was open, she could be anywhere in the house. I closed the bedroom door and looked for her in her regular hiding spots in the room and whew, she was hiding between the bed and heating vent. Evie does *not* like to be handled, is super fast and squirmy so every attempt that Gary and I made to grab her was fruitless.
One good thing about the babies is they know how to put themselves back into the big cage, so I opened the top doors and put some treats up there and she scrambled inside. Took me a few tries, but I was able to grab her and pop her back into the small cage, and used a ring/clip to keep the door closed. In the afternoon, I went back upstairs to play with them a bit and they had tried to open the door but the ring held it almost all the way closed. So far, so good.
But wait! There's more!
W is whining at me at 2.30 am and I was hoping that she would jump back on the bed and go to sleep if I ignored her. As I am laying there, I hear a small crash/thud that sounded like it was from upstairs. I get out of bed, run upstairs and the cage is open and both babies are gone. They had pushed against the door so hard that they popped the ring open. I found it halfway across the floor. These are the same rings that Cait uses to hold the hammocks to the cage bars so they can hold the weight of several rats securely. Both babies were under the big cage so I decided that I was going to let them back into the big cage for good. I was going to put them in there at some point today since they are 1-week post-op but I wasn't planning on doing it in the middle of the night. They are so darn naughty. [tsk tsk smilie]. I put in some cheerios and they scrambled up the side of the cage and went right inside. Cordelia and Liv seemed very happy to see them and all four were running around to get the cheerios.
I am still cleaning out the cabinets b/c those pantry pests are still popping up. So disgusting. My mental downtime (as if!!) was trying to get ACDSee working again and it is running -- for now. Talk to me in a few days and see where I am at.
I am cleaning for my friend today and will be trying to get my hands on the babies to make sure they didn't bother their incisions with their nighttime escapes. ha-- I meant to type "escapades" but escapes works just as well.
Never dull here. SMH. Even when it is boring, there is *always* something weird going on. It might be a good day to wear steel-toed boots when I clean since I am going to be at my weapon-collecting friend's. LOL
Have fun!! xoxo
