The Compulsive Ramblings Of A Philotherian: Dentists and Pet Stores and Rats

My poor dear sister had to go to the dentist today to deal with her tooth ache. Not sure if you remember me posting about her last dentist visit, but it didn't go well. She left with a tooth ache and $50 poorer. Well today, she got to go to her childhood dentist, Dr. Hutchison. We were in the waiting room for probably 20 minutes before she got called back. All the while being forced to watch the funerals of all the kids that were murdered in CT last week. Thanks a lot waiting room TV!

Anyway, she was probably in the room for 15 minutes before she came out and was ready to go. Apparently she had a mass infection an had a hole drilled in the back of her tooth so that the infection could drain out - ouch!! By the time we got to the car, she was already a million times better! Not all she has to do is take her Z-Pack over the weekend and come back next Wed. to get things finished up!

On out way out of town, we noticed that Jungle Gems pet store was still open. So, of course - we had to stop! As soon as we walked in, LaVaughn saw the baby rats! They had them separated into: Small, Medium and Large. Of course, we went for the baby ones. We only hung around the rats for a few minutes, then we started exploring the rest of the store. So much has changed since the original owner that we knew passed away. There are WAY more animals than ever before - especially guinea pigs! They had everything that your typical pet store had, except the Patagonian Mara! Man that thing was cute! And of course, they had a poor, poor sugar glider. seeing him in that cage made me want to cry. He was also already spoken for, so there was no chance of us taking him home.

After we made our rounds in the pet store, we eventually made our way BACK to the rats. We talked about them throughout the entire store and contemplated getting a couple babies. And it just so happened that these babies were only $3 each! Ugh, the horror! We asked the lady if we could hold them and she said yes. She just opened the cage door for us and walked away! She really doesn't know what she did there! After about 20 minutes of looking at/playing with/holding and kissing the baby rats, we finally decided on two!

I asked the girl if she gave discounts on multiple gliders and she said that since they were going to pet homes, she would let them go for $2 each. Hey, a dollar savings is a dollar savings! I think we both floated out of the sore - rats in hand. Now we have to decided if we want MORE when we go back next week!

We got two little girls, by the way. A mink hooded and a mink berkshire dumbo.They're to die for! Okay, enough talking - time for some pictures AND videos!!

Love & Peace

-Megan

Here are the pictures from the dentists office:

Fox News debates suck! I had to watch this the entire time she was in the back.

Pretty Christmas tree by my side, though.

Fake snow all over it!

See how pretty the tree was? I wanted to take it home, lol.

Here are the pictures from the pet store:

This big boy is a Blue and White Tegu!

Tegu's are huge!

Of course, they had to have a Rosehair Tarantula.

That wasn't as bad as the Brazilian Salmon Pink Birdeater! Shudder, shudder, SHUDDER!!!!

Cute little Chinese Water Dragon.

A Tokay Gecko.

Cornsnake.

An adorable little Chinchilla! This little guy loved LaVaughn. If only we had the space...

This parrot loved me!

Despite her look, I have video proof that she loved me. :)

Blue Tongue Skink.

Awesome water turtle.

And of course, Red Eared Slider.

A ball of ferrets! As you can tell, they were in bad need of a cage cleaning.

Can't forget the bunny!

And the guinea pigs.

And more guinea pigs.

More adorable bunnies.

LaVaughn had a favorite.

Even more cute bunnies!

Oh how I love hamsters...

And MORE guinea pigs!

Such adorable little hamsters.

This tank was full of to die for gerbils! I wanted one so bad!

A skinny pig!!

More cute guinea pigs!

And yes, these are more guinea pigs.

This was the Goblin King of guinea pigs.

Now for the Patagonian Mara!

Such a cute baby Patagonian Mara.

This little Patagonian Mara was only 2 1/2 months old.

Cutest Patagonian Mara EVER!!

The poor little pet store sugar glider... made me so sad.

This hairless guinea pig was awesome!

Of course, there was a puppy.

And lastly, a parolette! :)

Now for the pictures of our new ratties:

Yes, the girl gave us a cricket container for them.

At least they had air screens.

This is our berkshire girl.

And this is our hooded girl.

Of course, we had to stop at Dairy Bar:

Love the neon lighting.

The menu that's been up for as long as I can remember!

Where they come out to deliver your food.

Bonus Blog!

The excitement of new rats quickly came to an end when we got home. Our little berkshire girl (Emilie) was fine. She ate some cheese and walked around like normal. Our other little girl (Sally) was a different story. I puller her out of the box and she was stiff! She was just sitting in my hand, frozen! She wouldn't move and was hardly breathing. I kept her in my hands, hoping that once she got warm she would be better. Well, she wasn't. LaVaughn made her some "gruel" and put it in a dropper feeder. Gruel is just a mix of dry food, water and a tad of milk. Anyways, poor little Sally was just sitting there with her mouth partially open. I pulled it the rest of the way open and LaVaughn started putting a little food in her mouth. She didn't do anything at first, but then decided to lick the rest of it up. This went on for about 5 minutes. Then out of no where, she leached on to the dropper and started swallowing the food! I think she went through 3 droppers before she was done! This poor little girl was starving to death! Of course, we gave Emily some and she loved it equally as much. Well... maybe not as much.

Here are a couple pictures of them from when we got home:

See how tiny she is compared to the dropper.

Not sure if you can tell, but these little girls are TINY! We were told that they were 6 weeks old - give or take a day. WRONG! These little girls are 3 weeks old, 4 weeks max! They are far too young to be away from their mom. I hate what breeders do to their animals. It's sickening. If we hadn't got her when we did, she wouldn't have made it.

While the girls were napping, we also decided to make them a little mini cage set to go in their smaller cage. They'll get a HUGE upgrade once they're bigger and can't fit through the bars.

Here's their cage set and cage set up: