Ronnie and Derek are again fishing for leftover food in their buckets in the video below – this time it’s spaghetti. Watch how they carefully hold it while eating!
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Bean Bucket Buffet
Ronnie and Derek always enjoy eating leftover food – in this case, some fine beans and carrot, which they fished out of their little buckets. Look out for some bonus footage of Derek grooming in the video!
Gardening
Watch Ronnie and Derek have a (supervised!) short mooch around part of the garden, which they recently enjoyed during the warm weather.
Fleeced
Like any rat, Ronnie and Derek appreciate soft blankets or clothing and delve into folded parts which have the benefit of being dark as well as soft! Here they are diving in and out of a fleece blanket which was on the sofa.
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It’s a Rat’s Life
The Cress Mess
The Cress Mess
Watch Ronnie and Derek making a cress mess as they tucked into a tub of tasty watercress.
The Buckets
The Buckets
Watch Ronnie and Derek rifling through their food ‘bouquets’, picking out the best bits of some rat muesli and making a mess in the process – not exactly ‘keeping up appearances’!
The Cheesy Ball Brawl
The Cheesy Ball Brawl
Leaving a ‘cheesy ball’ potato snack on top of Ronnie and Derek’s cage is one way to keep them occupied, although not often as they’re not exactly nutritious!
Watch the videos below to watch them in action – the first one is the ‘fisticuff’ highlights and the second one has more of the action.
‘Fistycuff’ highlights
Main action
Air assault
Air assault
Ronnie’s been caught on camera stealing from Derek – see video below.
It’s the usual routine – Derek goes to the side of their house with a couple of rat nuggets, then Ronnie spots him, goes up on top of the house and launches an air assault by stealing one of the nuggets Derek has. Usually there’s a bit of protestive squeaking from Derek but he was quiet this time.
I suspect Derek takes two nuggets because he knows Ronnie’s likely to steal one. It’s a mystery though why Derek always goes down the side of the house when he must realise Ronnie will be a thief – but perhaps it’s more of a mystery why Ronnie has to steal from Derek in the first place when they both have easy access to the nuggets!
Pasta hoovers
Pasta hoovers
Watch Ronnie and Derek hoovering up some pasta!