Ratparty and Grey Morning
Apr. 10th, 2006 07:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormYesterday I went to the world rat day party in New West, at the house of the woman who bred nmy babies. I got to meet other rat people, including someone who knew me through a couple of social threads (KMM? Livejournal? Graham? Check). That was pretty cool. Meeting Lizzie and Susan was very cool too-- these people are intensely knowledgeable about rats, and also friendly and nice. I got to meet some lovely boys and cuddle them (I miss my boys so much, and these guys were huge) and that felt wonderful.
Even more cool, though, I got to hold my babies. They are, as I knew they would be, the cutest baby rats anywhere. Their daddy is awesome. Their mom is very sweet. The babies are just adorable. Amber is a little shoulder-baby, who every time I picked her up (and this happened often) would seek out my shoulder and sit there comfortably, being fuzzy at me. she's white with one very tiny light grey ("blue" spot behind one ear. Miss Elisabeth is white with a bunch of dark grey over her face and shoulders in scattered patxches, and a little lightning-bolt of white down her nosae. She's an adventurous one, at only a few weeks already seeing how far she can travel. They're both dumbo-eared, which means they have big ears set low on the skull, and terribly comfortable around a horde of all ages. I want to call them Silver and Lightning, but I like Amber and Miss Elisabeth too. Sigh, choices.
Then, I slept. Through the night. First time in a long time. It's weird, cause I'm actually quite worried about this surgery for no real reason except that my Sweetie is involved.
It's a grey morning, and I need to run to the vet both before and after work, so I should get started. Best thoughts to my baby.
Even more cool, though, I got to hold my babies. They are, as I knew they would be, the cutest baby rats anywhere. Their daddy is awesome. Their mom is very sweet. The babies are just adorable. Amber is a little shoulder-baby, who every time I picked her up (and this happened often) would seek out my shoulder and sit there comfortably, being fuzzy at me. she's white with one very tiny light grey ("blue" spot behind one ear. Miss Elisabeth is white with a bunch of dark grey over her face and shoulders in scattered patxches, and a little lightning-bolt of white down her nosae. She's an adventurous one, at only a few weeks already seeing how far she can travel. They're both dumbo-eared, which means they have big ears set low on the skull, and terribly comfortable around a horde of all ages. I want to call them Silver and Lightning, but I like Amber and Miss Elisabeth too. Sigh, choices.
Then, I slept. Through the night. First time in a long time. It's weird, cause I'm actually quite worried about this surgery for no real reason except that my Sweetie is involved.
It's a grey morning, and I need to run to the vet both before and after work, so I should get started. Best thoughts to my baby.
