Accidental Animal Cruelty

[MonitorLove]

We don't mean to do it...but it happens to the best of us.


My worst case of AAC happened a few days ago.

I leave my rats outside on cool days and warm nights, usually just out on the porch in the shade. Normally, before bed, I check the weather forecast to see if it's going to rain or get to cold, or whatever.

The only day I don't check the weather, it pours.
Not overnight, but in the morning.
Oh boy, did it pour.

By the time I woke up, realized that the rats are outside, in a wire cage, without protection they were all soaked. The bottom tray of there cage was a lake, and almost everyone was packed into the soaking cat bed/rat house.
I dragged the cage inside,then started unloading them into a empty ten gallon and drying them off.


They forgave me after I gave them there favorite sugary treat; peanut butter Captn' Crunch.

[wolfy-hound]

Awww, poor ratties. Call it a unplanned rat bath day. I'm picturing teeny shower caps and towels.

[MonitorLove]

My brother kept cracking jokes about them hanging on the sides of the cage, shaking their tiny fits and going 'YOU JERK'

I have to admit though, they did smell much fresher than before.