By Courtney Benson on Friday, 02 February 2024
Category: Candidate Journals

Rat Update

Today I donated blood at Red Cross today. I'm glad I did my requirements before because I not supposed to do any heavy or excessive exercise for 24hrs.

Honeysuckle, the outdoor rat we found was unable to really socialize with the baby rats we got (two more since I last update, so four babies). She was getting overstimulate, in a state of fight or flight. She would hide in the corner of the bin when we introduced her to the others. When we tried to put her back in her separate cage, she started biting and we were unable touch her. We discussed re-releasing her. We can't keep her if she is getting overstimulated, and we have enough animals in our apartment. It's a tough decision. 

We started introducing the 4 babies with our 4 original rats and looks like things are going well.

Going to end the night with a pizza outing and a walk around town.

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