{"id":21958,"date":"2020-11-28T12:05:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T17:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/?p=21958"},"modified":"2020-12-06T18:19:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T23:19:32","slug":"ricky-jeffy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/ricky-jeffy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky &#038; Jeffy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These boys came to us on 11\/22\/20 because they weren&#8217;t getting along with the other rats in the home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fostered by Jamie in Lancaster, MA.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ADOPTED!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><del>#2020828N, &#8220;Ricky&#8221;, Rat, Black, Hooded, Standard Ears\/Standard Coat, Male, DOB: 05\/31\/2020, Spayed\/Neutered?: No<\/del><\/p>\n<p><del>#2020829N, &#8220;Jeffy&#8221;, Rat, Black, Hooded, Dumbo Ears\/Standard Coat, Male, DOB: 05\/31\/2020, Spayed\/Neutered?: No<\/del><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 11\/28\/20:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both boys are coming out of their shells a bit now! Jeffy is the more outgoing of the two and the more food motivated but both boys poke their heads out when they hear a person coming. They\u2019ll take treats from hands and learned the click sound I use to call them for treats very quickly. They\u2019re both impeccably litter trained; there was one accident outside the box the first day they arrived and nothing since. Being lifted out of the cage makes both boys nervous but they\u2019re snuggly and calm once they\u2019re in your arms and not in midair. They\u2019re the first rats I\u2019ve dealt with who really enjoy a wheel!<\/p>\n<p>At first glance, the boys look very similar but Jeffy is actually a dumbo while Ricky is standard ear. They\u2019re very sweet together and I haven\u2019t seen them fight once.<\/p>\n<p>The areas we\u2019re working on are all about fear. Both boys are weirdly freaked out by normal household sounds like conversation in the same room as them or the dishwasher running. I\u2019m not sure if that\u2019s new-ness or if they were used to being in a room away from the main household but I\u2019m slowly increasing their exposure. They definitely don\u2019t have much experience of kids, even quiet ones. Also, the boys are scared by anyone trying to pet them inside the cage. Outside the cage petting is making good progress but inside is really alarming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ricky<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hosting.photobucket.com\/images\/ff234\/MaineRatRescue\/ricky1.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeffy<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hosting.photobucket.com\/images\/ff234\/MaineRatRescue\/jeffy1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Together<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hosting.photobucket.com\/images\/ff234\/MaineRatRescue\/rickyjeffy.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These boys came to us on 11\/22\/20 because they weren&#8217;t getting along with the other rats in the home. Fostered by Jamie in Lancaster, MA. ADOPTED! #2020828N, &#8220;Ricky&#8221;, Rat, Black, Hooded, Standard Ears\/Standard Coat, Male, DOB: 05\/31\/2020, Spayed\/Neutered?: No #2020829N, &#8220;Jeffy&#8221;, Rat, Black, Hooded, Dumbo Ears\/Standard Coat, Male, DOB: 05\/31\/2020, Spayed\/Neutered?: No UPDATE 11\/28\/20: &#8220;Both<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":21960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-previously-adopted-2020"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/edited_rickyjeffy.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Lena Maurer","author_link":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/author\/lena\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21958"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21990,"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21958\/revisions\/21990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}