By popular demand, Finnegan the Rat

[binzing]

We just got our highspeed working (wahoo, the inner geek is content) here are some pics of my christmas gift.

He was being odd that evening in choosing to lay ON TOP of the box instead of INSIDE.

 

[fileen]

omg! He is soooo cute! I had one just like him. Its too bad they don't live longer, Sebastian the rat was one of the best pets I've ever had. Enjoy him!

 

[lisab]

Well...I'm sure he's a very nice rat, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder, for sure.

His head looks like it came from a different rat than the rest of his body. Kind of a Frankenrat look to him.

But I'm sure he's a very nice rat...certainly love his name :!) !

Congrats on your new high speed!

 

[turbo]

My best friend's son had a rat that he named after his grandfather (heh!) and the rat was a real sweetie. If you cuddled him in your hands, the next thing you knew, he'd scoot up to your shoulder to cuddle against your neck and lick your ears. Rats crave attention, so please be nice to Finnegan.

 

[binzing]

Yeah, he's pretty nice, I hope to train him to sit on your shoulder as our last rat (we got him at the age of 5 or so) did.

One of his favorite things to do so far is we'll set him on the back of the futon in the living room and we have a blanket on there for the cats that lay up there and he loves to run back and forth underneath the blanket. I'll get pics of that up sometime.

 

[Evo]

Adorable Rat! Love his name.

Congrats on the high speed!

 

[Ganilisto]

Cool rat man. When you teach it to talk, let me know haha.

 

[Math Is Hard]

What a sweet face!

 

[binzing]

There you are MIH, the popular demand was mainly referring to you, lol.

 

[Math Is Hard]

I must confess I was very eager to see him!

 

[binzing]

I could tell. LOL

 

[Crazy Tosser]

Frankenrat. Ew.

 

[Andre]

Cute critter, Binzing

 

[NBAJam100]

We should start a pet picture directory, similar to the member picture directory where we can all post pictures of our pets . thoughts?

And nice rat binzing!

 

[Danger]

That's a mighty fine looking rodent, Binzing.
Since you had a previous rat, you know that they crave affection. I have no doubt that you'll be a terrific daddy.

 

[hypatia]

He is adorable. All pet rats remind me of this movie.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uAJV4p0aet4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uAJV4p0aet4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

 

[binzing]

We should start a pet picture directory, similar to the member picture directory where we can all post pictures of our pets . thoughts?

And nice rat binzing!

That would be a lot of work for me, with a pot belly pig, 5 goats, 2 miniature donkeys, 6 dogs and 5 (or so) cats.

 

[physics girl phd]

Coincidentally, my sons and I were just looking at the rats during our pet store trip yesterday. At first our youngest didn't like the idea, but I asked him to keep watching them. After a while, he noticed them running about and investigating... and even moving/flipping their little houses. One then came up to the part of the window where he was sitting and sniffed around (there were air holes in the glass so he could be heard and smelled). He decided they were cool.

We were, however, just there to get food for Cha-Cha (the cat). Fortunately, rat was not to be on her menu, which is also why I had to tell our youngest he'll unfortunately have to wait til he goes to college to get one (or at least til we get a larger abode, where he can possibly bar the cat from his room).

Rats are decidedly cool... and finnegan is decidedly cute. Right now, he's making me wish I had some time to be that languid.

 

[Kurdt]

Hello Finnegan.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Cool rat, Binzing.

Did you know that rats are ticklish?
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=69429

 

[Danger]

5 (or so) cats.

?
Is one of them of the Schrodinger breed, so you don't know whether or not it's there?

 

[Math Is Hard]

Do the 5 cats make Finnegan nervous? I am imagining a scenario like this:

 

[physics girl phd]

Do the 5 cats make Finnegan nervous? I am imagining a scenario like this:

That is certainly what our cat would do!

 

[binzing]

Finnegan is in one of my two rooms, which are closed off from the animals. Though when he's out in the living room on the back of the couch (with supervision of course) the cats seem interested but not overly so.

Oh, I said 5 or so because I didn't feel like taking the time to count.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

?
Is one of them of the Schrodinger breed, so you don't know whether or not it's there?

The problem is that you don't know if they're dead or not, which is actually true of many breeds for about 19 hours out of the day.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Do the 5 cats make Finnegan nervous? I am imagining a scenario like this:

THAT is a great photo!

 

[binzing]

Tonight my mom says he was actually walking around on the couch proper even walking up and climbing under the cats and dogs.

 

[Danger]

The problem is that you don't know if they're dead or not, which is actually true of many breeds for about 19 hours out of the day.

Well, cats are notoriously inefficient from an energy-use standpoint. The tradeoff is in how they work when they work.
I was just thinking, sitting here with Lucy on my lap... The most perfectly engineered killing machine on the planet is flopped down on me, purring her fool head off. If I walk the 2 metres to the bathroom, she follows me. Downstairs to change, she follows me. We close the bedroom door to keep her out because she wakes us up every half-hour or so... and this morning she woke us up. I've always known that she can open doors, but that's only the second time that she's let herself into our room. Gonna have to start locking it.

By the bye, that white cat in the background of MIH's photo could easily be Lucy, except that the collar medallion is different.

 

[Kurdt]

Well, cats are notoriously inefficient from an energy-use standpoint. The tradeoff is in how they work when they work.
I was just thinking, sitting here with Lucy on my lap... The most perfectly engineered killing machine on the planet is flopped down on me, purring her fool head off. If I walk the 2 metres to the bathroom, she follows me. Downstairs to change, she follows me. We close the bedroom door to keep her out because she wakes us up every half-hour or so... and this morning she woke us up. I've always known that she can open doors, but that's only the second time that she's let herself into our room. Gonna have to start locking it.

By the bye, that white cat in the background of MIH's photo could easily be Lucy, except that the collar medallion is different.

You do realize you're going to have to start a thread with Lucy pictures now.

 

[fuzzyfelt]

I didn't expect Finnegan to look so cute. Nice rat!