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**Takako** @otterX · 5d

Takako @otterX

Miss Ella: *notices the cam* *ignores the cam*

#mischiefOfDivas #CompanionRats

**Takako** @otterX · Mar 6

Mar 6

Takako @otterX

my sweet darling ratties… Aretha and Helena

#mischiefOfDivas #CompanionRats #WhiskersWednesday

**Takako** @otterX · Mar 5

Mar 5

Takako @otterX

lol Helena…

Left to right: Dinah, Aretha on top of Ella, and Helena

Four adopted sister ratties are lounging in the hammock together. Helena on the right is smiling and blowing raspberries at us while others sleep. She’s white with a faint smudge on the nose and has star-ruby eyes, pink ears and nose, and beautiful white whiskers.

#mischiefOfDivas #CompanionRats #TongueOutTuesday

**Takako** @otterX · Mar 3

Mar 3

Takako @otterX

@sqrl_23@birdon.social oh she LOVED food! So much.

A big bowl of rattie dinner is being delivered to the RatManor. Helena the white rattie with Ruby eyes and a little brown smudge on her nose is standing on the lava ledge mounted right outside of the manor door, stretching to reach the bowl, both arms extended. Other three girls; Ella, Dinah, and Aretha, are at the door, trying to reach the bowl. Ella and Dinah are dark brown hooded white ratties, and Aretha is dark brown with MilkyWay tummy.

#mischiefOfDivas #CompanionRats #veganRats

**Takako** @otterX · Mar 3

Mar 3

Takako @otterX

Ah, my phone delivers me random photos from the past, and I can’t not share it. Look how smug Helena looks, getting the first dib at the snack (big papaya chunks)!

5 years ago today

I’m holding a human-size bowl with four big chunk of ripe papaya in front of the open door of the RatManor. Helena, the white rattie with a little brown smudge on her nose is at the door, just grabbed a piece. There are a couple of dark brown snouts coming out of the blue hammock at the top.

#CompanionRats #veganRats #mischiefOfDivas

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**Takako** @otterX · Feb 27

Feb 27

Takako @otterX

Our companion rats weren’t on a calorie restricted diet. They were on a healthy plantBased diet.

Four adopted girl ratties sharing a big bowl of meal in the RatManor. From left to right: Aretha, dark chocolate rattie; Dinah and Ella, dark chocolate hooded white; and Helena, ruby-eyed white with brown smudge on the nose. Their table manners were impeccable.
August 2019.

#CompanionRats #mischiefOfDivas #veganRats

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**Takako** @otterX · Feb 27 *

Feb 27 *

Takako @otterX

I know that, but to put this info into practice is another story. (When your ratties beg for snacks, impossible to say no) Thus, I stick with PlantBased food which is naturally low in calories.

Our longest-lived rattie, Lil Marty never ever over-ate. He also didn’t touch human junk food. He never got sick.

Lil Marty, our beloved agouti rattie, with a shallow round white dish full of colorful bites of plant based food, mostly fruits, cooked grains and lentils, with a bit of greens. The food is chopped up in tiny dices, so it’s easier for him to eat. The dish is bigger than baby Marty.
October 2021

#MartyMcBean #CompanionRats #veganRats

**Takako** @otterX · Feb 21

Feb 21

Takako @otterX

Rats for that matter, too!
Left to right: Dinah, Aretha, Ella, & Helena.

#PowerToTheRodents #mischiefOfDivas #CompanionRats

@sqrl_23@birdon.social Your piggies are adorable beyond belief! Beautiful creatures!!

Dinah, Aretha, Ella and Helena, eating corn from the same little dish in front of them in the RatManor. Their table manner is impeccable.

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**Takako** @otterX · Feb 1

Feb 1

Takako @otterX

Their first week of being home.

Two albino girl ratties in the small under-the-shelf hammock that’s made of an old sweat pant leg. Tillie is on top, looking this way. Tessie is looking up, sniffing the air. Beautiful young girl ratties. March 2017

#TillieAndTessie #RaturdayPast #CompanionRats

**Takako** @otterX · Jan 27

Jan 27

Takako @otterX

… thinking of Marty …

Our darling agouti rattie is on my shoulder, kissing my cheek. We’re both facing away from the mirror and the selfie cam captures the mirror image. My dark brown, straight hair is bunched up with clips.

The same scene, Marty is on my shoulder, now facing the selfie cam, and it captures both the mirrored image of him in the middle and him in the foreground.

The same scene, now you can see the phone cam I’m holding in the mirrored image above Marty on my shoulder. It also captures his butt and feet in the foreground.

#MartyMcBean #CompanionRats

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**Takako** @otterX · Jan 20 *

Jan 20 *

Takako @otterX

@mwl That’s so cute!

Once our Marty achieved “down,” there was no stopping him. From that moment on, he was set to explore every surface in the rat room. He was neophile, somehow knew he was safe in his surroundings.
Here’s him looking out the window, perching on the rim of rat laundry bin, sniffing the early morning air.