Mortimer and Wheeler in Tissue Box Squish

The humble tissue box can fit at least two rats but only with some special rat teeth modifications.

Wheeler Vs. Paper

Cage clean and Tom went a bit mad adding paper for them to make their space comfy.

So Wheeler had no choice but to tidy!

Some ten hours later (I'm going to assume he slept for most of that):

but then 30 minutes later (promise there are two rats in that hammock!)

You can't get me...

Hello!

One Tube - Two Rats

Hey I want in too!

Hanging out on the couch

When the rats come out they like to hide under my blankets but for their birthday back in November I gave them a rat house. What these pictures don't show is Wheeler's love for dragging in the tunnels so the whole thing is blocked off from the outside world.

Box of delights

Happy dreams

Sym-rat-ry

Ratty Dreams

A Wheeler inspired piece of embroidery. In fact this isn't all that rats dream. Mortimer had a nightmare the other day. Don't know what he was thinking about but he leapt out of his hammock and legged it to the furthest point of the cage. It was the same as Tom when he wakes with a nightmare and takes a good ten minutes to decide there really is no bomb in the alarm clock. It was so bad Wheeler even went to see if he was ok and neither would take a treat for a good few minutes.

Happy New Year

Dear Kateri and Tom,

We are having a lovely time at the D'Alby's. The little people are always talking to us and telling us about cartoons and ponies and things. The very littlest one doesn't say much but she does bounce around a lot.

They have been feeding us well. They made us a lovely kabob with banana and cheese. The Gouda was particularly deeeeelish. Here is Wheeler hiding out with the biggest bit.

It's not all fun and games though, they like to exercise us. It's all very stressful.

It's not so bad though, because there are usually (healthy) treats after our workout. They've popped away for a couple of nights but left us with a variety of boxes and hidden and hard to reach treats. Why do they think we will do anything other than sleep? The silence is glorious. There was only one horrible moment when we thought we had met our maker. This giant bearded tattooed bloke came in, peered at us, took some stuff from boxes and left. We needed to have a good long sleep after that.

Rattily yours,

Mortimer and Wheeler

Surprise Balls

For Christmas one of my friends gave us a surprise ball. So I made some up for the rats (instead of the plastic toys I put a bit of food in the middle) they tended to chew through each layer rather than gently unwrap them! Anyway from the original ball we were left with long strips of crepe paper so we thought Wheeler would enjoy tidying some of it.

There was one time when he was in the hammock and was pulling the paper streamer in through the bars. When he was nearly at the end, the end of the strip flicked and ended up poking through a different bar. Wheeler thought this was another strip so started to drag it through. There was a priceless moment when he twigged that he was pulling the new bit in but the bit he'd dragged in and folded neatly was unfolding. I swear you could see him mutter a profanity as he turned back to pull the original section.

After such exertion it's time for a nap.

Christmas fun

Cracker (wrapping paper, spare tube, tape and a treat) + rat = fun!

Snow Day Fun!

A snow rat!

Snow Day Hugs

Extreme Tidying

The boys even tidied themselves!

Clean up obsession

Wheeler loves to tidy - everything has a place!

Hello!

Do you have any food?

Sleepy Rats

Hinging aff the hammock...

The latest trend in the world of Mortimer and Wheeler is to rest their heads off the hammock - they can sleep stretched out like this or open sleepy eyes and watch 'Murder She Wrote'!

ROUS

The Bosavi woolly rat was found in a crater in Papua New Guinea. These ROUS (Rodents of Unusual Size) like the creatures in The Princess Bride, except that instead of attacking humans they want to be our friends. I want one.

Sleep Toodles!

Trying to get comfy

Wheeler having tried to tidy the tissue box into the box he was hanging out in.

This was a snoozing Mortimer a year ago - I know so small so sweet.

Super cute sleepy Mortimer!

Frozen Peas

Tom came across this idea online (at The Dapper Rat). It's simple idea:

• get a dish
• add some warm water
• add frozen peas
• give to rats!

Wheeler was pretty fast to work out that he could use his paw to scoop the peas towards him, Mortimer continued to dunk his head in to grab a pea. Wheeler refused to eat the pea husk, Mortimer was happy to eat the whole thing and left over husks (this may explain why Mortimer is a big rat!).

More Sleeping

Tom woke them up trying to take this and as usual they look pretty unimpressed with the whole awake idea.

Bubbles

While Wheeler took an interest and even chased the bubbles Mortimer remained completely unimpressed and just ignored them.

Cute Rat Pics

Hammock Take 2

Wheeler ate the knots (plus there were a few issues of separation in the weave so we had dangling nuts). So another hammock. This one is machine quilted with hand stitched holes for the hooks. It's also massive compared to the other one.