My heart Rat, Kiwi passed away peacefully in her sleep today.

She was the sweetest little soul. I’ll miss her terribly. 🩶🤍

I just wanted to share my favourite photos of her.

that’s it. that’s the post.

the drama of getting his paws wet for a pea 🙄

That cartoony face... I took this picture yesterday in his usual spot🩷

I left the room for 3 minutes to cut up a mango for myself (they been left alone for much longer before without any issues) and this little fcker some how manages to pull out my CD box from my tv stand (mind u that shit is HEAVY), get behind the plastic cover that I put there SO THIS WOULDN'T HAPPEN and then EAT THROUGH THE ENTIRE CABLE!

My entire room is rat proofed, or so I thought.

And no, I'm not accusing this little guy with no evidence, I know it was him because it's not any of my older boys (this i know for sure) which only leaves this little jolly fckur and his brother as the suspects.. And while his brother does love chewing on things, I know he wasn't guilty this time, because i left him on my bed when I went downstairs, and he was in the same spot chilling when I came back. Meanwhile Jeff, the criminal. Was sitting suspiciously close to the crime scene.. 🤔

(No rats were harmed, it was a cable with no electricity going through it, thankfully. And no cable was ingested, which I know because I found a whole bunch of cable pieces scattered behind the tv stand)

I was however harmed, because i had a fcking heart attack before I could confirm which cable it was, and before i got a hold of all the rats to check them all. Safe to say that they're grounded tomorrow until I worked out a solution.

(right after this he took off running with half the banana)

My elderly rat has been on antibiotics for a few weeks for sneezing and puffiness. The vet noted possible neurological issues because he kept falling over, and suggested looking into palliative care (like steroids) after the antibiotics.

He was improving, but took a bad turn today:
- He became much more unresponsive than usual.
- He started chasing, biting his tail, and grooming excessively.
- About 10 minutes ago, he tensed up in a strange position while boggling and bruxing in an obviously uncomfortable way.
- He is now sleeping in an odd position.

I feel like he might pass away tonight. I'm willing to pay for medicine, but I don't want surgery or treatments that will just prolong his suffering, and my vets haven't been very helpful.

Should I take him into the vet tonight or just focus on making him comfortable at home? Any advice is appreciated.

These girls have opened up so much in their space to run and play. They are more affectionate and outgoing all around and I love sitting with them (even though they're both little asshole toe biters).

Their free roam space is not in the rat room and I have experimented with having their cage in here vs not in here. It doesn't seem to make a difference to them at all. I do usually have either their carrier in or their temp cage, but they have no interest in either. What about your rats?

We wear hat!

Also, abs workout.

Roxie still allows Lily to clean her and is an absolute saint with just letting her do it- none of the other rats are as tolerant of her constant urge to groom everything and everyone, bless her little heart. She‘s allowed to groom my hand as much as she wants to of course (and she does want to.)

Husband says if I want to hang this photo in our house I have to edit out his balls 🙄

I don't have any siblings, but this is how I understand it

Hello everyone. Right now I am crying, i have love lost my rat. I keep blaming myself because i think I am a bad parent. I really don't know why he died today.
His name is "Jirniy Brain" what means "fat Brain" on Russian. At 1 of p.m i was working and i listened some weird, loud and scare sound. It’s as if the person is suffocating. Then one more sound. I thought these sounds of my black rat, but i really don't know what that was. I blame myself because i didn't check my fat Brain, i thought he was sleeping. He was HEALTHY, just a little bit sneeze. My workday had ended and i went to their house. And i decided to check why fat Brain wasn't walking. And i touched him. I didn’t believe it and ran to my husband. He said that it's true.
It's my nightmare for today. And nightmare which will escort me all my life. Now i don't want to be a parent of rats. I want to avoid to be scared of death again. I have 3 rats. And it will happen 3 times.

I pinned some photos of him. He was very cute.
I'm very bad for my English, im not good in English definetely.

UPD (after 5 minutes of posted):
We have prepared him to be buried. I can't believe.