What ratspeak do you use?

[wulfyskingdom]

For new and experienced rat owners - do you use nicknames or cute words to describe your rats or things rat related?

i.e. when you're telling someone about your rats do you refer to them as your ratkids? I think it sounds adorable

Or when im talking to someone who knows nothing about rats i might make a reference to 'raisins' and watch their face change when you explain "what a raisin really is?"

I love calling my boys "bears" because they are so cute and furry and cuddley, not like a real bear of course but a teddy lol although i always have scratches from their claws, so maybe it is more like the real thing.

i know dapper rat has a huge dictionary, its a great read too.

anyone else have some names to share?

[travntill]

well I usually refer to my rats as my babies...and that gets some really weird looks from some people lol...but to me they seriously are. I love them!

[dimruthien]

My rats are my kids. Sometimes ratkids, or furkids, but usually just kids Makes for interesting conversation when I tell people I need to get home to feed my kids!

"Oh! How many do you have?"
"10! *beams proudly*"



I refer to poops as "poopies". My boys are "squishy".

[Colleen]

I just call my ratlets, or cutie pies! i love the name 'bears' for male rats very cute!

[wulfyskingdom]

definitley ratlets and squishes make their way into my vocabulary...

I really like how a male rat is a buck and female is a doe. sounded odd to me at first but i quickly decided that they were very suitable.

Put two and two together = Squishy Buck hehe

[cassandra]

we call our cats bears and furkids

i called my rats my kids, babies, or just podges!

[Colleen]

Podges! now there's a new one

[wulfyskingdom]

Jul 19, 2008 13:40:25 GMT 10 Colleen said:

Podges! now there's a new one

you read my mind, i was just about to say that when i saw your reply!

[Colleen]

Jul 19, 2008 19:59:26 GMT 10 wulfyskingdom said:

Jul 19, 2008 13:40:25 GMT 10 Colleen said:

Podges! now there's a new one

you read my mind, i was just about to say that when i saw your reply!

heheheee.
well as they say... great minds think alike!

cassandra, where did you get the name Podges?

[bnrats]

my ratties are known around here as the eating machines and raisin makers

[Colleen]

hehehee, very appropriate.

[wulfyskingdom]

An extra one to add:

Fur Squids

Came from a lady who calls her human kids 'squids'

Oh and when they're all sleeping together, i call them a Pile of Cute

[planetj3]

I now refer to Kiore as "Lilove" because she and everything about her is lil (little) and I love her so!!! My lilove is having surgery this Fri 8th Aug to remove a growth from her chest, I so hope everything will be ok!

[sdaji]

Wow, I feel so boring! I've always just called them rats. If I was going to call them anything cutesy it would probably be 'vermin', in a sarcastic, affectionate way. I suppose I could probably get used to calling them furballs or pellet munchers or something. I'll probably refrain from calling them kids/babies though; people already think I'm a little insane, I don't need to lie to/mislead them as well!

Squishes seems a little, um, violent to me.

When I feed them anything other than standard feed pellets I refer to the meals as 'treats', even if it's just bread or something (the rats seem to agree with me! ).

Fur Squid and 'pile of cute' are terms which I find appealing for some reason!

[wulfyskingdom]

Aug 6, 2008 1:50:46 GMT 10 @sdaji said:

I'll probably refrain from calling them kids/babies though; people already think I'm a little insane, I don't need to lie to/mislead them as well!

Squishes seems a little, um, violent to me.

LoL! Your not insane, your just having a better time in reality! Thats they way i figure it. My friends think im funny the way i carry on some times, but hey! I'm having more fun then they are.

Not sure how squishes seems violent to me it means pliant and soft and furry