RAT FACT OF THE WEEK
Rat tails have 2 main purposes; provide balance and dispel heat. A rat's tail is composed of bone, tendons, lateral veins, dorsal vein, smaller veins and a ventral artery. These various veins help a rat to thermoregulate by dissipating heat; dissipating approximately 17% of its body heat in just 5% of its body surface area.
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VIDEO: Panqué checking The Wooden Rat Finders Keepers Foraging Toy for more treats.
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FINDERS KEEPERS FORAGING TOY
This foraging toy will challenge your rat's olfactory and problem solving skills. Place food or treats in the holes of the foraging toy. Your rat will have to find which holes contain treats and retrieve them. This foraging toy adds additional complexity of movement as the toy will swing when they try to get the treat.
This foraging toy is made of 100% kiln dried wood and jute making it safe for your pet rats if they decide to give their toy a few nibbles.
Difficulty level: 4/10 whiskers
RAT FACT OF THE WEEK.
Rats spend a significant amount of time sleeping or foraging for tasty snacks. On average, a healthy adult rat eats approximately 10-20% of their body weight each day depending on activity level and age.
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VIDEO : Panqué emerging from the depths to rescue her favourite treat from the Wooden Rat Peekaboo Foraging Toy.
PEEKABOO FORAGING PUZZLE TOY
This foraging toys will challenge your rats cognitive and balance skills. Place food and treats between the wooden holders. The foraging toy adds the additional complexity of movement as the toy will swing when they try to get the treat.
The foraging Puzzle toy is made of 100% kiln dried wood, apple tree wood and jute making it safe for your pet rats if they decide to give their toy a few nibbles.
Difficulty level: 4/10 whiskers
RAT FACT OF THE WEEK
Porphyrin will glow magenta under black light. Porphyrin is a normal secretion that is produced by the tear gland around a rat's eyes and nose. An excess build-up could indicate stress or illness.
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VIDEO: Tochtli, Mielita and Mocha playing with The Wooden Rat Finders Keepers Foraging Toy.
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FINDERS KEEPERS FORAGING TOY
This foraging toy will challenge your rat's olfactory and problem solving skills. Place food or treats in the holes of the foraging toy. Your rat will have to find which holes contain treats and retrieve them. This foraging toy adds additional complexity of movement as the toy will swing when they try to get the treat.
This foraging toy is made of 100% kiln dried wood and jute making it safe for your pet rats if they decide to give their toy a few nibbles.
Difficulty level: 4/10 whiskers
Customer review:
I bought this for my African Grey Sydnee. He quickly figured it out!!!
RAT FACT OF THE WEEK
In Japanese mythology, Daikokuten is one of the Shichi-fuku-jin (Seven Gods in Japan) who is the patron deity of wealth and farmers. He is often depicted surrounded by riches and other symbols of bounty including rats who themselves symbolize industry, fertility, and good luck.
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PHOTO: Coco taking a break from playing with The Wooden Rat Finders Keepers Foraging Toy.
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FINDERS KEEPERS FORAGING TOY
This foraging toy will challenge your rat's olfactory and problem solving skills. Place food or treats in the holes of the foraging toy. Your rat will have to find which holes contain treats and retrieve them. This foraging toy adds additional complexity of movement as the toy will swing when they try to get the treat.
This foraging toy is made of 100% kiln dried wood and jute making it safe for your pet rats if they decide to give their toy a few nibbles.
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Difficulty level: 4/10 whiskers
RAT FACT OF THE WEEK
Dwarf rats were discovered in a laboratory colony of Sprague Dawley rats in 1977. Their size difference is due to a recessive mutation that causes them to have a reduction in growth hormones. Dwarf rats are on average about 1/3 the size of their normal-sized counterparts.
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VIDEO: Notchli, Totxhli and Pika are playing with the Flip and Hide Foraging Toy.
FLIP AND HIDE FORAGING PUZZLE TOY
The Flip and Hide Foraging Puzzle toy is available in 4 sizes and is made of 100% kiln dried wood making it safe for your pet rats if they decide to give their toy a few nibbles. Rat teeth are constantly in growth and the foraging toy is 100% safe for gnawing.
Hand Made with Rat safe material (100% kiln dried pine)
4 size options available: 5x, 4x, 3x, 2x
Difficulty level: 2/10 whiskers
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Week 1 winner: Maggie Keachie
Panqué, our social media rat coordinator, is happy to announce the week 1 Winner for free shipping of any combination of our products from The Wooden Rat.
To enter the draw for free shipping of any combination of our products from The Wooden Rat, simply comment below on this post with the names of your pet rats and their absolute favourite snack. One draw winner will be randomly selected EACH WEEK by Panqué throughout October. Each entry will be valid for all the draws throughout October and winners will be contacted directly.
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VIDEO: Coyotl playing with The Wooden Rat Finders Keepers Foraging Toy.
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PEEKABOO FORAGING PUZZLE TOY
This foraging toys will challenge your rats cognitive and balance skills. Place food and treats between the wooden holes. The foraging toy adds the additional complexity of movement as the toy will swing when they try to get the treat.
The foraging Puzzle toy is made of 100% kiln dried wood, apple tree wood and jute making it safe for your pet rats if they decide to give their toy a few nibbles.
Difficulty level: 5/10 whiskers
RAT FACT OF THE WEEK
Rats can and will fart. Typically, their farts are not audible but they do not go unnoticed by their owners to their dismay. Rat farts can be...strong which is incredible considering their small stature. There isn't a particular food that makes a rat gassy. As with humans, some food will sit perfectly fine with one rat while another may become very gassy.
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PHOTO : The Wooden Rat mischief playing with The Wooden Rat Peekaboo Foraging Toy.
PEEKABOO FORAGING PUZZLE TOY
This foraging toy will challenge your rats cognitive and balance skills. Place food and treats between the wooden holders. The peekaboo foraging toy adds additional complexity of movement as the toy will swing when they try to get the treat.
This foraging Puzzle toy is made of 100% kiln dried wood, apple tree wood and jute making it safe for your pet rats if they decide to give their toy a few nibbles.
Difficulty level: 5/10 whiskers
RAT FACT OF THE WEEK
Beatrix Potter, a renowned English author and illustrator of many children's books including The Tale of Peter Rabbit, had a pet albino rat named Mr. Samuel Whiskers or Sammy as a child. She even wrote a story called The Tale of Samuel Whiskers and dedicated it to her beloved childhood pet rat.
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PHOTO: Notchli playing with The Wooden Rat Breakout foraging toy.
Rats are inquisitive and intelligent little creatures. They are food motivated and enjoy a good challenge. The Breakout Foraging Puzzle toy provides enrichment and amusement to you and your little ratty friends.
The Breakout foraging toy will challenge your rat's problem solving skills. Place food or treats inside the bars of the foraging toy. Your rat will have to figure out how to extract the treats. This foraging toy is configurable to increase or decrease the difficulty by removing or adding bars. The Breakout Foraging Puzzle toy is made of 100% kiln dried wood and bamboo.
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At The Wooden Rat, we love seeing our little customers enjoying their new toys!
Kiba and Yume's mom sent in an adorable video of them playing with their new Breakout Foraging Toy. You can literally see their brains turning while they try different ways to get to their treat! Aren't they the cutest?
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Enrichment is important in keeping any pet happy, healthy and entertained. Rats are active and playful creatures. They are food motivated and enjoy a good challenge. Foraging toys are a fun way to encourage exercise and play. The Breakout Foraging Puzzle toy provides enrichment and amusement to you and your little friends and is available at The Wooden Rat Etsy page
The Breakout foraging toy will challenge your rat's problem solving skills. Place food or treats inside the bars of the foraging toy. Your rat will have to figure out how to extract the treats. This foraging toy is configurable to increase or decrease the difficulty by removing or adding bars. The Breakout Foraging Puzzle toy is made of 100% kiln dried wood and bamboo.
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The Wooden Rat is a small Canadian business dedicated to providing great natural products for small pets while being environmentally conscious. The Wooden Rat products are made of biodegradable material. Check out our products on Etsy at The Wooden Rat. https://thewoodenrat.etsy.com
RAT FACT OF THE WEEK
Rats only have four fingers on each front paw and lack opposable thumbs. They have little thumb-like nubs and use the muscles in their paws to grip their food.
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PhOTO : Notchli playing with The Wooden Rat Peekaboo Foraging Toy.
PEEKABOO FORAGING PUZZLE TOY
This foraging toy will challenge your rats cognitive and balance skills. Place food and treats between the wooden holders. The peekaboo foraging toy adds the additional complexity of movement as the toy will swing when they try to get the treat.
The Peekaboo foraging Puzzle toy is made of 100% kiln dried wood, apple tree wood and jute making it safe for your pet rats if they decide to give their toy a few nibbles.
Difficulty level: 5/10 whiskers
RAT FACT OF THE WEEK
At a time when many researchers discounted that animal emotions could be studied scientifically (or even existed), Estonian-american neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp affectionately known as “The Rat-Tickler” spent many years tickling rats as part of a study on the neuroscience of affect. Through his studies, he demonstrated that rats enjoyed being tickled and wete motivated by having fun as much as human beings. The rats in the study were particularly ticklish in their nape area and would often seek out the human hands they knew would tickle them.
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PHOTO: Metzli playing with The Wooden Rat Finders Keepers Foraging Toy and Peekaboo Foraging Toy.
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FINDERS KEEPERS & PEEKABOO FORAGING TOY
These foraging toys will challenge your rat's olfactory and problem solving skills. Place food or treats in the holes/lids of the foraging toy. Your rat will have to find which holes/lids contain treats and retrieve them. These foraging toys add additional complexity of movement as the toy will swing when they try to get the treat.
Both foraging toys are made of 100% kiln dried wood and jute making it safe for your pet rats if they decide to give their toy a few nibbles.
RAT FACT OF THE WEEK
Did you know that rats can move their eyes in opposite directions?Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen Germany used miniaturised high-speed cameras and high-speed behavioural tracking to discover that rats move their eyes in opposite directions in both the horizontal and the vertical plane. Each eye moves in a different direction depending on the change in the animal's head position. An analysis of both eyes' field of view found that the eye movements exclude the possibility that rats fuse the visual information into a single image like humans do. Instead, the eyes move in such a way that enables the space above them to be permanently in view – presumably an adaptation to help them deal with the major threat from predatory birds that rodents face in their natural environment.
Source: Excerpt from the Max Planck Society Newsletter
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VIDEO: Panqué and Notchli only have one thing they are focusing on, the yummy treats in the Breakout foraging toy handcrafted by The Wooden Rat. Rats are inquisitive and intelligent little creatures. They are food motivated and enjoy a good challenge. The Breakout Foraging Puzzle toy provides enrichment and amusement to you and your little ratty friends.
The Breakout foraging toy will challenge your rat's problem solving skills. Place food or treats inside the bars of the foraging toy. Your rat will have to figure out how to extract the treats. This foraging toy is configurable to increase or decrease the difficulty by removing or adding bars. The Breakout Foraging Puzzle toy is made of 100% kiln dried wood and bamboo.
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This rat fact of the week is brought to you by The Wooden Rat, a small Canadian business dedicated to providing great natural products for small pets while being environmentally conscious. The Wooden Rat products are made of biodegradable material. Check out our products on Etsy at The Wooden Rat. https://thewoodenrat.etsy.com
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