Rattie update
Oct. 22nd, 2013 01:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anthimeriaWith the fairy book going and revisiting The Novel yet again (this time for the Strange Chemistry unagented submissions period), I've been writing more than I have since I got the kids. This has resulted in me attempting to multitask: play with the rats AND __. Insert "watch tv" "read" and today "write."
They don't mind the tv, but to be fair they can't get at it. The book freaked them right out--I don't know if it was the inconstant page-turning noise, or the big paper presence, or what, but books freak Hardison and Parker right out. So today--as I type, in fact--I decided to try them on the laptop.
I am extremely amused that they find books scarier than the computer.
I have music going, and I'm typing, and it's a big new black shape, and while they were a little bit wary, they're more interested in chewing on it than they are scared of it. I mean, they're sniffing it, but they're treating it like they would any new object in their space: with curiosity and just a little bit of "Is it going to bite back?"
While I don't know what's up with the book thing, their reaction to the computer is evidence of how far they've come in just a few weeks. Baby Hardison and Parker would've sat, frozen and quivering, terrified. Teenage, better-socialized Parker and Hardison are curious and kinda annoyed every time I keep them from gnawing on the keys. It took a lot of work, and I'm not done, but they're getting there.
In conclusion, next time I try this I'm going to try to get a picture of each rat reaching up to paw at the screen, one on each side, like heraldry. If I can accomplish this picture I will find SOME way to show y'all.
They don't mind the tv, but to be fair they can't get at it. The book freaked them right out--I don't know if it was the inconstant page-turning noise, or the big paper presence, or what, but books freak Hardison and Parker right out. So today--as I type, in fact--I decided to try them on the laptop.
I am extremely amused that they find books scarier than the computer.
I have music going, and I'm typing, and it's a big new black shape, and while they were a little bit wary, they're more interested in chewing on it than they are scared of it. I mean, they're sniffing it, but they're treating it like they would any new object in their space: with curiosity and just a little bit of "Is it going to bite back?"
While I don't know what's up with the book thing, their reaction to the computer is evidence of how far they've come in just a few weeks. Baby Hardison and Parker would've sat, frozen and quivering, terrified. Teenage, better-socialized Parker and Hardison are curious and kinda annoyed every time I keep them from gnawing on the keys. It took a lot of work, and I'm not done, but they're getting there.
In conclusion, next time I try this I'm going to try to get a picture of each rat reaching up to paw at the screen, one on each side, like heraldry. If I can accomplish this picture I will find SOME way to show y'all.