Listen to me you punk-ass hyperactive crack-addled but completely adorable baby rat:
(What?)
Stop peeing on me!
It’s bad enough that eneryone’s nicknamed you Piddles. I know you’re excitable and you’re little. Can’t you pee in your own cage and not in my hand? I run out of shirts at least once a week because I have to change them all the time! And for the gods’ sakes quit peeing near the computer equipment!
…How do you train a pet that’s too cute to discipline? :smack:
Have it stuffed. Still cute. No piddles.
Adorable RAT???
You like it, admit it.
Beware the deadly rat wee.
You have a rodent that pisses on you, yet you still feed and otherwise care for it. I admire you greatly. Truly, I do.
And here I thought this would be about someone harrassing you on IM with “do you like water sports?” questions! EHehe
One mistake and you get all pissed off.
I used to have a turtle that would aim his pee at people if he got annoyed. Once he doused a vet trainee from the tips of her shoes, to the top of her lab coat. I had warned her, but of course she didn’t listen. It was very hard not to laugh.
Hey now, rats are awesome! We have a fat li’l Dumbo Rex, she’s got big ears that are set a little lower on her head than normal, and she’s got wavy crazy fur. She’s incredibly adorable, even people who normally have an aversion to rats think so.
I have a slightly similar traning problem. We have a three month old kitten with white fur and blue eyes. Which means, like many other cats with that appearance, she’s deaf. So we can’t really yeall at her to quit dipping her paw in the toilet, or stop running around in circles on top of my monitor. And squirting her with water doesn’t work, as she likes to attack running faucets and hop in the shower while either of us try to shower.
While we don’t have an official name for her (since she’s deaf, what the hell will she answer to?), we sometimes call her Death. You can’t stop Death…
I’ve been telling my own kids that I don’t enjoy getting blessed either, but they just start that clicking and wiggling their noses…
How can I resist such cuteness?
We’ve taken care of a friend’s rat for over a week now, while they were out of town, and I have to say he’s a cute little guy. I could get used to it. He’s peed on me a couple times, and it’s no big deal, I just wash it off later.
My girls love watching him wash his face… such cute little hands. And the way he eats an almond is positively adorable.
Oh no! I’ll be adopting two sweethearts next week! I know they pee…but they pee that much? Oh well, they’re adorable. I guess I’ll deal.
If anybody cares, they’re at www.humanesociety.dane.wi.us/adopt/search.html. Just search for female rodents - you’ll see my Sleepy & Sneezy, soon to be renamed Dangerous Beans and Peaches!
This rat, while astoundingly cute, is nervous and high-strung. I chalk it up to her being one of 14 babies. (She’s hiding in my shirt as we speak.) I’ve had friends walk into the room where the rats live saying “Where are those nasty little plague-carrying flea-bitten - - awwwwwwwwwww!!!”
Piddles is a fatal attack of cuteness. She’s pretty much impossible to train, because immediately after she lets loose with the waterworks, she’ll turn her head and give you the Cute Animal Face.
AAAAAARRRGGGHHH!!!
Not one full minute after I made that post, the little ball of awwwwwww wets down my last clean gray T-shirt!!!
Well, you know what they say:
Golden showers make rather odd flowers…
Take it as a compliment- rats pee on things they think belong to them. (Scent-marking purposes, no doubt.) You are a treasured possession!
My rats will ‘leak’ a bit, but when Finwe (little black & white hooded girl) was a baby, every time you picked her up, she’d leave a puddle in your hand. Her sister Satchel (cream and white hooded) will still sometimes let fly when the urge takes her, and you’ve got to watch, because it could be anything from a dribble to a dam-buster.
But I gloat over people who start in with the “no vermin in my house…” speech, and end up begging to feed the rats “just one more treat, please, they’re so adorable when they eat!” 
But I also get a lot of that “they’d be soooo cute if it weren’t for those tales.”
Perhaps they’re right. I know a lot of people who’d be stunningly gorgeous if they just had different heads.
Take it as a compliment- rats pee on things they think belong to them. (Scent-marking purposes, no doubt.) You are a treasured possession!
Hey, if you really love 'em you’ll piss back!
Smokey Ferret is a good little guy. He always goes right to his cage if he can get to it.
A few months ago, he was in for a check-up. After being insulted with the thermometer, he dashed straight up my neck to hide in my hair, where he commenced to pissing right down the back of my shirt.
It’s not a good feeling.