Updating on unplanned rat family.
About two weeks later, on second round of giving out treats, I was hovering over the end of the aquarium that held the roiling wriggling mess of rattins, now with fur. I was trying to determine if there were 7 or 8. Mother was not happy with my studying (eyes only mind you). I decided to offer her another treat. She bit me with a lunging intention I would have previously only attributed to a shark. Foffdaughter had shown me the movie at the end of Ratatouille which stated that rats can chew through stainless steel. So doing a pincher move piercing my index finger nail bed and my finger pad was an easy task.
You know in cartoons when a rodent bites a finger, the human then waves around the finger trying to shake the rodent off? While an unavoidable instinctive move, I do not recommend it, because the full weight of the rat swinging off your finger really really hurts worse than the rat bite, which hurts plenty. And no they do not turn loose to fly through the air, they wait until they are firmly planted to release you. I have not gotten an infection, and have an interesting puncture/blood bruise in my nail bed, that will grow out eventually.
The rattins are really really cute...
I think there are 8 of them..
Maybe.
Don't care as much now.
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