For those wondering those are his mildly annoyed squeaks he makes when he’s outside his cage and also when holding the farter so he cannot run off and fart again.
After putting it off for 4 years, I added some more magical girls. It started with me brainstorming with a friend to make a cholita magical girl and it expanded from there.
Best diet/exercise scheme for keeping maximally healthy rats? I struggle to find folks online who don't have obese rats because they overfeed and underexercise them. I'm considering getting a few rats, I've got a space that can have a 2m x 1m x 1m cage and my best friend as a kid had ferrets so I know how to escapeproof a room for free roam time. Dietwise and exercisewise, though, I want to maximise health and lifespan on top of general happiness and it feels impossible to do that with the general advice!!
Hmmm well I live in the US so it depends on the country you live in but I measure out 20 grams of oxbow adult rat pellets per each rat (I weigh it out each feeding). I think there’s also lab blocks and other types that also work. Mixed feeding and giving treats a lot is usually how they end up fat.
I tend to forget to give them treats so that’s probably why they aren’t a lil chonky lol
As for exercise, I free roam mine in a pen for an hour a day. For a pen, I got a plastic one that’s tall off amazon. Make sure its not cloth or has bars.
