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[ans99]

i have a tumblog now.

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Comments

[eyeteeth.livejournal.com]

Hay, turns out I'm not going to be in California again until October, in case you were saving that art. I would like to see you then though.

[freyja.livejournal.com]

sweet. i was worried it was going to be when i'm on vacation in the boston area, and that would just be too pathetic for us to be visiting opposite coasts. :P so yes, october. looking forward to it!

still working on your art. ran into a snag :/

(also busy making sure rats don't develop ulcers or kill each other-- watching them figure out the particulars of the dominance hierarchy is vicariously exhausting)

[eyeteeth.livejournal.com]

If only you could speak Rat, you could say to them, "Look, the biggest one usually gets to be top rat, now just sleep in a pile and swap odors and deal with this, OK?"

[freyja.livejournal.com]

the little ones are very scared of the big one, though. i really don't know what they're going to do to resolve this.

[eyeteeth.livejournal.com]

Could you maybe put them in adjoining cages so they could sniff each other for a while and have rat chats without fear of a beatdown?

[freyja.livejournal.com]

i had their cages right next to each other, and right now i have a divider in the big cage and both parties in there. i guess we'll see.

[eyeteeth.livejournal.com]

I bet it works out OK. I was always a bad rat steward and just dumped them all in the same cage willy-nilly. Usually what happened was that the new rat or rats would be paralyzed with fear for a few minutes but after a couple of hours everyone would be in a snoozy ratpile.

[freyja.livejournal.com]

we gave them all afternoon yesterday.

[eyeteeth.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wasn't suggesting that you should DO AS I DO and then everything would be OK, just theorizing that because rats are lazy and would rather just cuddle and love, like little raver kids, I bet it works out. Eventually.

[freyja.livejournal.com]

i hope so! i'd be so surprised if it didn't, but i don't want to put anyone through hell either.