I thought I'd share this funny thing that Piper Akasha does.  My desk is right next to my bed, and so she'll always jump right to my bed.  But she still wants me to play with her, and she'll make this clear by staring at me from a fold in the blankets, then, when I put my hand down, she'll slowly advance to lick my fingers.  But if I move my hand at all, she'll dart back underneath the covers.  But then, just a few seconds later, she'll be staring at me again.  Eventually, the game will get into the rhythm where she'll dart back under the covers, and then hop right back out to lick me again!

And where is Kaela during all this, you ask?  Well, she's still on my desk, dragging my big black comb behind my computer...  ::sigh::

Anyway, I thought I'd share this story with you, and ask what cute things your rats do!

Jair smiles when he wants something.  When he wants to ride with me he hugs my wrist.
My female likes to dump aspen on Jair's head when he's sleeping.

Ok i started this reply oh about an hour ago when my connection was lost.about 2 seconds later here comes carmen looking quite innocent...but i know.I don't know if that counts as cute or not...seems to me everything my girls do is cute,now had that been the daughter or the dog there would have been hell to pay.[[thay was hanna...cute to.I could tell you about sara and hanna but i don't want to take all the space.

   Hehe. That's funny.6 Beige does something like that. When I hand him a sunflower seed or a yogie, he'll stuff it in the back of his mouth, and then grab like he dropped it. He'll then look at me and beg for another.

oh my lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

Just last night, our new Dumbo Rex was being very cute.  We're using newspaper to line the bottom of the quarantine cage (yes it's the safe kind).  She started pulling up one corner with her paws.  Then she would stand behind it and fold it over.  She'd start walking toward the other corner, and the newspaper would come back and fold over her head.  So she'd push over a bigger chunk, and a bigger chunk...  It was just too funny to watch the exasperated look on her face everytime the paper would come back and cover her up.  LOL

Mr. Higgins was funny the other night, he was up on the bed and I was eating ice cream.  He decided he was very interested and stuck his head in the bowl, he somehow grabbed a chunk and tried to make off with it.  Hubby just rolled his eyes at me as much as to say - look at the mess!!  Mr. H. was trying to hold onto his bit of icecream and eat it and of course it was melting everywhere

Hannah and Holley are turning into my velcro rats.  When they have their free time in the mornings they like to launch themselves from the arm of the couch onto Mr. Higgins' cage about six inches away, it's funny to watch because they look like someone wearing a velcro suit being thrown at a velcro wall - you know they just stick to the cage.  Then they run up and down the bars taunting Mr. H. -- I think he's getting used to it now, he wanders from the bottom to the top and back to the bottom, trying to keep pace with them.

Oh I have so many cute things to share.  hmmm which ones........

Maggie likes to sit where the dinner bowl goes around the dinner time.  She'll lay there and hang her head with this "I'm so starved" look until I show up with the bowl.

Mousie does many cute things but she is my shirt diver.  When she was a baby, she could bolt up my front and be down my shirt in a flash.  So fast that I could never stop her.  Now she just gives me the "look" and I know it's coming.  She also has a favorite spot when out for playtime, she will climb on this shelf and lay there watching tv.  Mousie also HAS to have some of whatever I have for desert.  She loves to climb right in the ice cream bowl and go for it.  If I pull it up out of her reach, she will try to launch up to it and hang off the side.

Ellie is the greatest at giving the "oh mommy, can I come out" look.  She is always so eager to see me and get loves.  Ellie is my typist.  I don't mean that in the keyboard sense.  She eats her nutro's dog food in a way that sounds just like typing.  We have a bowl of dry food for them in our room for playtime.  All of a sudden you'll hear this little rattie letter being typed :-).  My hubby looks at me and says "Is Ellie belly typing a letter again"?

Bailey will rub her teeth on you if she wants you to move out of her way (and it hurts, so you'll move).

Abby is my hopper.  She gets sooooo excited that she hops all over the place.  She also is the tail snake wiggle champ.  She will be all wound up, then stop, stare off into space and her tail will go 100 miles an hour.

Ok, I'll stop, but I could go on and on about all the cute things my ratties do.

This is what Midori did the other day.

I was eating ice cream, and of course Midori's hanging off the cage being the desperate her desperate self. (as for other girls, they can really care less what I'm doing )

So I got a little ice cream, on the plastic spoon I was using, and Midori thought that it wasn't enough for her. SO she took the whole spoon from me! I never got my spoon back...

I've got an old PC on my dekstop that Jason likes to play in. At first I was afraid that he might hurt himself, so I removed a bunch of the cables and such. It's not plugged in or even connected to anything.

But he likes to climb inside it and poke his nose in the little nooks and crannys! Then he'll climb to the top and sit on the old CD drive and look out the top at me while I'm typing on the new computer. He's got his own little "play fort."

Rick--

Just wondering...

Do mothers (with HUMAN children) do this too? Talking about all the cute things their children do, what the kids did today, etc.? Is there a web forum out there somewhere where mothers talk about their children the way we talk about rats?

I love they way they look longingly at you.  Mousie does that too.  She will dive down my shirt, then poke her head up and just look at me.  :-).

Another cute thing that Mousie does is flirt with the vet.  All my girls really love him and I have to keep the carrier door closed in between him looking over each one.  Otherwise, they all come barreling out and up his dr.s coat.

Mousie is definitely the biggest ham.  She will squeek and sqawl like he's hurting her, then start licking his hand, giving him kisses.  He said "Awe Mousie, are you licking me"?  I told him "She's flirting with you and giving you kisses"..    She is sooooooo obvious.  Little harlett  

Oh I just thought of something else!! When I pick them up and they get anywhere near being upside down, they'll spin their tails around really fast like a helicopter...it's so funny!! Anybody else's rats do this?