{"id":27324,"date":"2023-06-16T09:33:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T13:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/?p=27324"},"modified":"2023-06-19T21:08:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T01:08:19","slug":"dusty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/dusty\/","title":{"rendered":"Dusty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dusty came to us on 5\/27\/23 after he was found abandoned outside of Petco.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fostered by in Jamie in Concord, NH.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ADOPTED!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><del>#2023344N, &#8220;Dusty&#8221;, Rat, Blue, Berkshire with Lightning Blaze, Standard Ears\/Standard Coat, Male, DOB: 12\/07\/2022, Spayed\/Neutered?: Yes 05\/30\/2023<\/del><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 6\/16\/23:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dusty is a sweet but shy little guy.\u00a0 He&#8217;ll readily take treats but he is not super food motivated.<\/p>\n<p>He loves to explore during free roam, but is not a fan of being picked up.\u00a0 I generally leave the cage door open and just let him come out of his cage when he&#8217;s ready.\u00a0 When it&#8217;s time to put him back, I can usually coax him back in with a small piece of banana chip.\u00a0 Sometimes I&#8217;ll have to catch him when he&#8217;s in a large cardboard tub or hut and then just move that to the cage door to lett him hop back in.<\/p>\n<p>He isn&#8217;t bitey or nippy, but he can give a little bit of a light teething when exploring your hand to see if you have any yummy treats so he would probably be best suited to someone with prior rat experience.<\/p>\n<p>I have been able to scoop him out of his cage to bring him out onto the couch to watch TV with us in a room away from the cage area.\u00a0 He&#8217;s not a fan initially (lots of squirming and fear poops), but he&#8217;ll eventually settle in for head scritches under a blanket with lots of bruxing and boggling.<\/p>\n<p>The person who found and surrendered him said he got along with her rats in the short time she had him so I&#8217;m optimisstic that there shouldn&#8217;t be trouble on his end with future intros.\u00a0 He does desperatley need some friends to teach him &#8220;how to rat&#8221; again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dusty<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hosting.photobucket.com\/images\/ff234\/MaineRatRescue\/Dusty_76pi7vjAhYSSZT265MrvT8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dusty came to us on 5\/27\/23 after he was found abandoned outside of Petco. Fostered by in Jamie in Concord, NH. ADOPTED! #2023344N, &#8220;Dusty&#8221;, Rat, Blue, Berkshire with Lightning Blaze, Standard Ears\/Standard Coat, Male, DOB: 12\/07\/2022, Spayed\/Neutered?: Yes 05\/30\/2023 UPDATE 6\/16\/23: &#8220;Dusty is a sweet but shy little guy.\u00a0 He&#8217;ll readily take treats but he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":27326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-previously-adopted-2023"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/edited_Dusty_b9m6cQd9AtNiTcEwNcJ.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Jamie Cross","author_link":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/author\/jamie\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27324","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27324"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27417,"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27324\/revisions\/27417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}