RatPalace.com - Pet Rat Care and Discussion

Mon Jul 21, 2003 1:05 pm

While browsing through the Cage gallery,I couldn't help but notice that there are two types of cage people.

Here they are:
Store bought:
You bought almost everything in your ratties cage.

Scavengers:
I place myself in this category. You spend every waking moment trying to find new things to make, create, alter, for you rat's cage. It is some what of an addiction. You are often seen digging in the neighbors refuge looking for things that can aid you in your quest for building things to keep your ratties intrigued.

The question? Which one are you?

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This stanza is my lament. This world is my imprisonment. I know I can never be...
I know I'll never be free.
The cut that never heals...

Mon Jul 21, 2003 2:01 pm

Well, I'd have to admit to falling in category one = Store bought
I have no artistic skill or patience for making hammocks etc I absolutely hate sewing!! lol
(I wish MousiesMom lived next door, her hammocks are brilliant! wink

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Everything my ratties own from plastic tubes, cardboard tubes, hammocks,hanging toys and chew sticks, hanging objects that you can push fresh fruit and cheerios onto etc are all shop bought! I have travelled all over the place just to find stuff to keep my ratties happy.
Any "easy" ideas are always welcome hehe

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Mon Jul 21, 2003 4:16 pm

Hmm.. I like to mix it up. my cages are store- bought, but I sure do like to make my own hammocks, and fleece tunnels! (and the boys seem to like my own creations better anyway. Especially my nekkid boys, they love the tunnel!!!!)

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and Little Bear, Pinkie, Igby, Dewey, Curly, and Mo

Mon Jul 21, 2003 4:21 pm

Yeah, I'm a 'combo' person myself! I have 2 homemade cages and one shop bought one and both are filled with a mixture of DIY stuff and shop-bought stuff.

Either way, it all gets chewed and peed on!

Mon Jul 21, 2003 4:48 pm

I have a combination as well. The cages are all bought, but all the shelves and ramps in my big aviary cage were home made, and all the cages contain a mix of DIY and shop bought stuff.

My rats are happy to wreck it, whatever the source. They are equal-opportunity chewers.

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Many have forgotten this truth but you must not forget it. We remain responsible forever, for what we have tamed.
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Mon Jul 21, 2003 4:59 pm

well im a Store bought / Scavenger ... dose that work ? Well i like to get like littel toys and stuff that are not really made for rats but what ever i think thay will enjoy playing with.

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Mon Jul 21, 2003 6:42 pm

I'm mostly store bought, except for my hammocks. I "make" those by folding a piece of flannel to fit the cage and safety pinning the corners up. And that is the extent of my crafting abilities

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Mon Jul 21, 2003 6:48 pm

	RattieFan wrote:
	(I wish MousiesMom lived next door, her hammocks are brilliant! )

I think we should import her over here for a continual supply of wonderful hammocks. And she would have to bring her rats, of course, so we could steal them.... wink

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Linda and the RMDs

Many have forgotten this truth but you must not forget it. We remain responsible forever, for what we have tamed.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

Mon Jul 21, 2003 8:58 pm

I never thought of that, but I think you're right! Everything Abita and I have is store-bought, tho I have scavenged some empty cardboard tubes from work.

What about improvisation--where does that fit in? I mean, you convert something for rattie use that wasn't meant to be used for rats (like Bob's hat)?

(It's like there are two kinds of people in this world (or at least the United States): those who dip their fried potatos in ketchup, and those who put the ketchup on their fries.)

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Mon Jul 21, 2003 9:12 pm

Well, I'm a store bought, I'm not very crafty. I buy everything except the obvious little toys, like boxes and such. I'm actually getting really broke right now though, so I think I'll have to change my extravagant ways!

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Mon Jul 21, 2003 9:31 pm

	Last_Stanza wrote:
	You are often seen digging in the neighbors refuge looking for things

You mean "neighbors refuse" and not "refuge," right? Because I'm pretty sure pulling things out of your neighbors refuge is against the law.

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Good night, Witter, Kono, Rat, Olie, Metro, Calle, Mr. Ratburn, Arwen, Leather, Ohana, Zoe, Misto, and Kanga.

Tue Jul 22, 2003 3:08 am

lol
Typo... Those keys aren't even in alignment... Hmmm

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-=Stanza=- [Riding shoulder is:]
Sugar [Magnolias], Peanut, Willow, and Scarlet [Begonias].
This stanza is my lament. This world is my imprisonment. I know I can never be...
I know I'll never be free.
The cut that never heals...

Tue Jul 22, 2003 3:38 pm

I am both, this new cage is store bought, but I have things I made for them or jimmy rigged myself

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