Mando Helped to the Bridge

Mando had been plagued with health issues. He was a super sweet boy and he was a joy to take care of. He was always so calm. He was adopted, along with 6 brothers, his sister and his mother, from a nice lady in St. Helens. They were all passed over because they were mostly white and from feeder lines. She had accidentally purchased a girl instead of a boy and oops, there was a litter of mostly PEW ratties that no one wants. :( But I don't care what color they are so I adopted them!

He is survived by 3 brothers, Bob, Franc and Millo.

Run and be free little one!

Babs Passes

Babs, mother to the late Tina, Alex, Merle, Mavro, Mando has passed. She is survived by her 3 sons here at the village, Millo, Franc, and Bob. She has been prepared for private cremation at the Oregon Humane Society.

Be free little one!

Our Tickers Need Help & Tank and Mando Hijack the blog!

Our skin parent is taking a break from writing so I had Tank hop on the keyboard with me so we could enter our thoughts on this visiting the doctor business.

Mommy took us to the doctor to get our tickers rechecked. First, the nurse came and weighed us. It is so embarrassing that everyone knows our weight! We are now on heart medication for life. :( But hopefully with the medication, it will be a nice long life, so that is ok. Mommy is going to get our medications from nw compounders, http://www.nwcompounders.com/. The pharmacist there has a reputation for making our rattie medications taste good! And the medications get sent right to our door. (Damn, that sounds like the contact lens commercials.) We also like the fact they are a local company as our mommy likes to use local first.

Anyway, back to this doctor business. Ok, what is with that big metal cold thing being pressed to us? Please. It is so cold! Blow on it first! Oh all right, maybe it isn't that cold, but can't you imagine us thinking that? ::sigh:: [This typing is hard work! Between our 8 paws and 2 noses and keeping ourselves from swatting each other with our tails...] I myself have to say the scritches are nice. And the doctor is very gentle with us so maybe it isn't such a bad thing.

It is good to be a rat in mommy's house. Me and my brothers finally moved into our multilevel cage. OMG!! It is 3 stories with hammocks and a wheel and an igloo and tunnels and balls and stuff stuff stuff! We are getting new chew toys soon too. Tank and his brother and friend Knick have been living in their new cage already. They have a single level divided cage. But I have 6 brothers in my family! The cool thing is my rattie Mom, Babs, and my sister, Tina, live in Tickle Tower which is just across the way, so we can call each other whenever we want. Mommy adopted me and my brothers (Mommy calls us snowballs), my sister and mother last year from a nice lady in St. Helens. We were an accidental litter due mistaken gender of Babs when "he" was purchased from a feed store as a friend to our rattie Papa. But no matter, we are ok.

Uh oh, Mommy, just came in. Humph! She thinks we are going to pee on her laptop.

Off we go...........

Mando's Eye and Health Update

Poor little Mando. His right eye had been pulled back into it's socket. I took him to the doctor 10 days ago and he has eye drops and oral medication. He went back yesterday and now he has different drops. Poor little guy. Anyway, he has also been started on blood pressure medication for heart issues. He is just under 8 months old. His brothers will be going in a couple of weeks for their heart checks with Dr. P.

Dr. S said his eye is reactive, so he can still see out of it. She is hopeful that they won't have to remove the eye.

Little Mando is a real sweetie, but very squirmy. Once you have him in your arms, he calms down and loves getting scritches.

Transport, Cages and Ratties Oh My!

Today was a rat filled day. I had to drop one of my boys, Mando with his brother Alex at the vet today. (Alex went for moral support.) And who should I see? Debbie! :-) She was so nice and was going to give up some of her appointment time since my appointment was not on the schedule but it all worked out with the "drop off" as my boy got seen and that was what was important. Turns out he has two heart problems and I brought him in for his EYE. So he has to take eye drops and medicine and get rechecked in another week or so for his eye. And I got to meet two of Debbie's lovely ratties.

I had to meet someone else in a few hours and needed to be rat free....so I could transport a little rattie boy from Woodburn to Portland where I was met by a friend that was adopting him but could not get to Woodburn. So off I went. Don't you all kind of feel like the people running organs to get to the patient on time or if it is dark and stormy...a drug runner? lol Shhhh! The rat is in the cage. Here's his stuff. Ugh. The young man that had Popcorn was very nice and he himself had rescued Popcorn.

Popcorn. I have to say, Popcorn is an absolutely amazing rat. He was the one I was transporting. He is going to a great home too! 4 mamas (mother and 3 daughters) and a very understanding dad, that love ratties and have 2 boys. They bought my 3-level cage too. So 3 rats have a HUGE cage to run around in.

I got to Quality Cages and their showroom was empty. I about had a heart attack! Then they told me that they were shampooing the carpet because of the bird festival. Phew. A lady came in and turns out she has rattie kids that are grandkids of ratties from 13 Moons Rattery. :-)

Well, the family got there and Popcorn took to them immediately. I'm sure it is a perfect match and I was happy to help Popcorn find a new, loving home. Good luck to the person that originally rescued Popcorn.

After running all over looking at the cages, Mr Cage Designer extraordinaire, Guy, patiently listened to me describe my new design. God Bless him, he is so patient. People, I'm telling you, support our local manufacturers! There is nothing quite like going in and seeing the process. Besides, it supports our LOCAL economy.