Gnawing!

[Geelanco]

Sox (Mu's new friend) has a horrible tendancy of gnawing through my clothes, I have already had to patch up my hoody twice, any ideas how i can get her out of this habit :?:

There should be pictures of her up by the end of the weekend

 

[SQ]

Some rats are chewers.
I don't think there is much you can do other than restrict their access to things you don't want chewed.
Many of us wear "rat clothes" when we have our rats out to play
- clothes we don't mind getting chewed and peed on.

 

[petlover]

HAHA SQ... good advice.
It amused me that you said " we dont mind getting chewed and peed on"
ITS TRUE... They chew holes in our clothes.. Rip off our wallpaper and pee all over us and we smile and coo and call them cute. :lol:

Yvonne

 

[jorats]

Yep... you got rats. lol
You might want to have two sets of clothes, one set for playing with rats and the other set for "everyday" living. :lol:

 

[user 78]

I have my 'housecoat' which is the hoodie I wear when I'm playing with the rats. They're happy to crawl around in that and chew it to pieces, leaving my pants and shirts alone. Even when reaching into their cages, I have to make sure to pull up my sleeves. Lil always has to have a nibble of whatever I'm wearing otherwise.

 

[SQ]

When I get comments about my "rat clothes" I tell people I was attacked by giant moths ... for some reason, no one buys it :wink:

 

[KristyR]

The most my kiddos have done with my clothes (so far) is try to pull me in the cage by my shirt! What's really funny is when one grabs my shirt and when I reach down to remove shirt from rat mouth, another one or two will grab onto my hair and pull! So nice to be so loved, eh?

 

[Godmother]

I also wear special clothes, usually someting old and worn or something I got cheap at a yard sale. I got some cheap T-shirts for $6 at a sporting goods store, e.g. basketball shirts in XXXXL --- great for having layers for the ratties to crawl through.

Time for me to dig up the photos from an old thread on another forum, entitled Ratty Couture! The most stylish item on the runway was SQ's rat pants. You could fly an airplane through the holes in those.

It's kinda boring now. My current gang don't chew holes in my clothes.

 

[Geelanco]

hmmm, ok,

I shall buy me some rat clothes!