So it occurred to me I hadn't done any blog updates in forever, and then discovered that I'd written a 'boys intro part 1' and never concluded it.
Well, the conclusion is that I now have six boys (poor Nightcrawler died some months ago) living in the bottom of a Savic Royale Suite (SRS) - Cyclops, Gambit, Robb, Rickon, No More Mr Nice Guy, and Awkward Customer. This is a giant of a cage and absolutely wonderful. Had Bran and Jon got on with them the eight of them would share the whole cage. As they don't, these two are on their own in a Furet Plus (which I want to downsize slightly). The top of the SRS contains the four girls: Sansa, Arya, Broken Sword, and Beneath a Steel Sky. It's a pain having to have an extra cage and long term I want to just have the SRS, but this is the only way to work it with this many animals and their personalities.
I won't be able to get any more rats for quite some time. Next up will be another pair of girls - but probably close to Christmas time. I doubt I'll get more boys until Cyclops and Gambit decide to finally depart, but the two are going strong despite lots of snuffles. Cyclops is still the loveliest, lickiest rat around. Awkward Customer is absolutely mad - he gets very erratic if you take him out of the cage, and his tilty head swivels backwards and forwards constantly.
Really happy with all the boys now, and all of the girls but Sansa. Sansa has improved over time but still hates being picked up with a vengeance and has to be handled very carefully.
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