What Happened Next

A lot has happened since The Beginning, sneezing? still there but only a few times a day. I'm monitoring it closely. Taming? He's no longer terrified of me touching him, he's actually a pretty good boy at it and getting better everyday. He will let me pet him, which is a BIG improvement, and he likes riding my shoulder (until he gets board and climbs down my shirt lol).

Of course not everything is going smoothly. Trying to find Dapper a rat buddy to live with him has been a bust so far. All the  breeders are pretty far away and rescues only allow you to adopt two at a time (three rats isn't something I can handle right now).

Also, health problems have been getting in the way of this goal as well.  Something  we are combating right now is dandruff. When I first got Dapper he just had a little around his bum area and I wasn't too worried about that, He had a URI to worry about. Last week I noticed him scratching a little bit... this did worry me, and so I looked  closer. There was quite a bit more dandruff now (or what I hope is dandruff and not something slightly more alive).

 Today Dapper let me scratch his back for the first time. He REALLY enjoyed it and just sort of layed limply while I scratched away. I looked down at his back where I was scratching and STARED. There was dandruff everywhere! And I mean everywhere. If salt was yellow and flakey, he would have been a salt shaker. He's a flake shaker. Fun, fun, another mystery to solve, another thing to research. Lets hope I find a safe way to give a rat a bath without me or him having a heart attack.....

A lot of fun and a lot of stressful things have happened over the month and a half I have owned a rat. It's only been a month and a half! Sometimes I have to put that in perspective because I feel bad for the things I don't know or can't do for him right now! Well anyways, more to come soon, hopefully all good, but who knows what craziness lies ahead:)

Wet Dapper after bath. P.S Both Dapper and I survived the bathing.