RATTY TOWER: how to make and what it's useful for.

This post shall be about how to make a RATTY TOWER!                         

This is a picture of our final design:

To make this, all you need is:

• boxing tape,
• 3 cardboard boxes,
• pieces of random cardboard in various sizes,
• kitchen towel*,                                                    
• pen*,
• scissors,
• fingers.      

*optional                                                

Step 1:

Obtain 3 cardboard boxes.

Step 2:

Use a piece of the random cardboard to make 3 ramps 10cm wide and long enough to fit into the box diagonally.

       
       

Step 3:

Get one of the boxes and cut one of the sides off. This shall be your bottom box!

Step 4:*

Get a piece of kitchen towel and cut some fringes on it. Use boxing tape to stick one side to the top of your bottom box.

Step 5:

Stick your ramp inside the bottom box and cut a hole where the ramp and the ceiling of the box meet. Make sure the hole is big enough for your rat!

Step 6:

Do the same for all the other boxes.

Step 7:

Make windows on each floor by cutting squares in the side of the boxes.

Step 8:

 Put your boxes one on top of each other and use boxing tape to tape the sides all together. 

Step 9:*

Use a long strip of cardboard to make a barrier around the top box so your rats have a little balcony!

If you want, you can shape the barrier like a real tower!

Step 10:*

Now use a pen to write your rats names and the name of the tower. I called mine "Darwin & Galileo's RATTY TOWER"!

Now all you need to do is give it to your ratty friends!

This tower is a great play time home for your rats. If you hide treats in it, it encourages foraging!

Rats may decide to change things around a little bit!

Hope you enjoyed making RATTY TOWER yourself!

 

Hooded rats

There are many different types of fancy rats such as the dumbo, the pink-eyed white and the platinum. In this post, I shall be talking about the Hooded Fancy Rat.

 

About Hooded Rats

Hooded rats are the most common of all the fancy rats and they are called hooded because their body is one colour, and the head another. They also have a stripe - which is the same colour as their head - running down their back as shown in the photo of Darwin:

You can see Darwin's black head and stripe, which runs from head to tail.

Did you know...

In the first rat show ever (like a dog show, a rat show is where rats are inspected by judges and are awarded different rosettes for their appearance, but also sometimes their agility), which took place in England in 1901, it was a black and white hooded rat that won the "Best in Show" prize.

After the event, the popularity of pet rats grew stronger and stronger...

I hope you've enjoyed reading this post!

My first post

Hello all you rat lovers out there!

This post is just to say what I am actually DOING in this blog.

 

What this blog is really about:

In this blog I am going to be writing about the adventures of my pet rats (Galileo & Darwin, both males) and I. I shall also be giving advice to anyone who has rats or is planning to get rats.

Darwin (right) and Galileo (left) in there home-made hammock.

More about my rats:

My rats are called Darwin and Galileo. They are hooded fancy rat brothers (I shall explain more later) both at the age of 12 weeks (on Sunday 6th of November). You can tell the difference between them because Galileo has a bit of white on his snout.

Darwin is the more adventurous one and Galileo is the bigger and calmer of the two. Both are loveable and adorable.

We got them at 9 weeks old, on my 10th birthday. I love them soooo much!

Hope you have fun while reading my blog!

Happy Reading!