| BIO Name: RnRR Cricket of JS Date of Birth: March 3, 2003 Date of Adoption: August 14, 2004 Variety: Hairless hooded Sex: Female Favorite: Riding in my shirt.
Cricket has to have some of the best personality I have ever seen. She is usually waiting for me in the mornings with her nose sniffing outside of the wires as if to say "Where are you?". She loves to climb on my shoulder, climb on her shelf and of course climb into her plant (a catgrass plant I keep on her shelf). Now the funniest part of her has to be her maternal instinct. While Cricket is older, and too old to breed, she seems to think she is a mother to Jewel. When I give her a snack, she promptly hides the first one. The second one she takes it to the bowl in her cage to share. Recently when I was changing her bedding she decided that if I was going to mess up her home, she was going to fix it. So rather than allow me to pile in the bedding, she insisted on taking it a piece at a time and arrange it into her home. Now after about ten minutes of this, I gave up. I put in a bunch and told her to make her bed. I placed a bowl of the litter next to the cage where she could pull it through. A few minutes later she was in the bowl deciding if she wanted to keep it or take it into the cage to share. Cricket has dealt with a few health problems from being older and hairless. She came to me with a few abscesses. One much older and could not be drained but had to be treated. She has no eyelashes so she requires her eyes to be cleaned daily. (I use a cotton ball or make up puff and water). She loves to climb all over me, and especially loves to hide out in my shirt. Cricket is just one rat that shows an older rat still makes a wonderful pet. |
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