Poor Charlie!
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Topic: Poor Charlie!
Posted By: daikini
Subject: Poor Charlie!
Date Posted: 13 February 2006 at 12:25pm
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I was changing the litter in Charlie's cage this morning. Josiah thought it was great - he could see Charlie running around under the top half of the cage on the floor, so both boy and rat were amused...
All was fine, until I had put the bits and pieces into the bottom half of the cage, and put Charlie back while I wiped out the top half... I hear banging and look up to see Josiah with a good grip on the skin on Charlie's back lifting the poor rat up and down! I stopped it, and Charlie went straight to his sleeping corner to recover. Other than a couple of pulled out hairs, Charlie seems to be fine with no tenderness where he was "got", and is moving around without problems - but he didn't move out of the corner until the top half of the cage was on! I guess the moral of the story is: if your 9mth old can reach, don't leave the pet rat within reach! ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 13 February 2006 at 12:33pm
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LOL, poor Charlie! I'm sure Josiah was only trying to 'help'... -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 13 February 2006 at 3:43pm
ooh poor wee thing i,m sure he was trying to help and moral lerned! ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: AlyAyde
Date Posted: 13 February 2006 at 4:11pm
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Ohhh poor Charlie. Sounds a bit like our picked on cat Miles ------------- Jayde 25/12/04 Alyssa 08/04/03 http://Alyayde.bebo.com |
Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 13 February 2006 at 7:29pm
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We've had Charlie for 2.5 years now, and I've taken him along to Kiya's kindy a couple of times... this was definitly the roughest treatment he's endured so far!
He only squeaked a couple of times while Josiah had him, and didn't try to bite me afterwards while I was checking him over... animals sure seem to know when young children don't know better! ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |