Pillow Time

As I typed the title to this post, Saké climbed up the front of my sweatshirt. She's suddenly rather rambunctious tonight, so I may end this prematurely to chase her down wherever she may wander off to. Now, as their play time is winding down, she and Sushi are finally acting energetic.

We handle the rats frequently throughout the day. They're cute, which makes it difficult to walk by their cage without getting them out. However, in addition to holding them, we also try to give them play time outside their cage every night. Usually this means laying on the bed reading while they climb, explore, wreck havoc, etc.

Tonight, however, they were feeling a bit lazy. Instead of climbing on the pillows as usual, they instead decided to climb inside. And nap. That really isn't the quality of play time for them that I envisioned.

Saké wanted nothing to do with playing.

Sushi wasn't much more impressed.

Saké finally considered venturing out of her pillow fort.

Sushi leads the charge out of the pillows.

Despite their reluctance to play when the opportunity was available, I guarantee they will wake us up at 4 a.m. tonight playing in their cage. They are sleepy rats when they want to be. They are not quiet rats when they do not want to be.