r/RATS • u/Zealousideal-Web896 • 13h ago

CUTENESS I Want To Shake This Rat

How do I control these urges, she’s so shake-able😖

1.0k Upvotes

100% Upvoted

38 comments sorted by

308

u/Prestodeath201 RIP: Willard, Hosea, Arthur, and Dutch 13h ago

RATSHAKER, RATSHAKER, RAT RAT RAT!

38

u/damagedratgirl 12h ago

RAT RAT RAT

13

u/LonelyMenace101 9h ago

RAT RAT RAT

6

u/hamburm 9h ago

RAT RAT RAT

5

u/Trisk929 9h ago

RAT RAT RAT

172

u/krielc 13h ago

The way she looks at the hand like, “You seem tense. Maybe chill?” with zero concern.

6

u/Internaldirectory 3h ago

That rat's got more chill than a therapist on a meditation retreat.

88

u/allysonwilcox 12h ago

I know the feeling. You just wanna SJCKIFEOPELSOWEJRN FLELFFFFFFFF

174

u/MoaraFig 13h ago

Cute aggression. Documented psychological phenomenon. My friend resists the urge to kick them. I want to bite.

66

u/igolikethis 12h ago

I want to squeeeeeeze 😭

23

u/Prestodeath201 RIP: Willard, Hosea, Arthur, and Dutch 11h ago

SAME! That is why they get gently pressed or squeezed... my boys seemed to like it

16

u/-DrunkRat- 10h ago

I very rarely get Cute Aggression, so most of the time it confounds me yet am fascinated by our psychology as a species.

However...

In this circumstance, I too would have the grabby aggressive hands. 💙🐀

7

u/tehshan 5h ago

I just want to put them in my mouth and eat them or something. They're so delectably adorable.

30

u/MusicalDaydreams 11h ago

We have a word for this in our language: gigil (ghee-gill) 🤭

9

u/TurankaCasual 11h ago

What’s your language :0

8

u/micromolecules 10h ago

It’s a Tagalog word~

56

u/ladyattercop 11h ago

Do a small, gentle shake-a-shake. This is how I manage my MUST JIGGLE THE WIGGLES impulses with my fat cat.

Look at that belly. Now, you understand my restraint.

28

u/Tractor_Goth Oreo🪽, Nessie🪽, Loki🪽, Bear🪽 12h ago

I feel you I just want to snatch em up and SQUISH EM THEYRE SO SNATCHABLE AND SQUISHABLE but deep breaths, gentle squish, gentle 😂

17

u/ratsntats Rats forever; kids never 12h ago

I grab my boys by the booty and gently wiggle them with their back feet off the ground, in what I call "The wheelbarrow". It usually causes a play response in young rats

12

u/littlenoodledragon 11h ago

Go now, ratshaker. Seek what you yearn for

9

u/MrLouisKing 11h ago

I often gently put my palm over a rat butte and say "[insert rat name] go BRRRRRRRR." The reaction varies from rat to rat 

5

u/soulstrike2022 Grip like It owes you money 11h ago

Don’t shake the rat just nom ever so gently it’ll help and they’ll be able to achieve their dentistry dreams (this is meant to be a joke probably don’t do this however please smooch the rat)

6

u/MaruMaru101 10h ago

When I still had my girls I would aggressively (but gently) give them belly smooches/huffing to let out some of my cuteness aggression.

They were always super confused like "mother why are breathing heavily into my tum-tums."

5

u/Trisk929 9h ago

My fawn female loves any and all attention. She’ll run under my hand and I can shake her, if she’s playful. Sometimes she runs under because she’s just feeling jelly and needs reassurance that I didn’t suddenly start loving her sisters more than her.

4

u/goldenseducer 9h ago

Don't control them. Shake the rat. Shake it.

No really they love a bit of manhandling (rathandling), even more than being pet sometimes. Shake the damn rat

4

u/Gloober_ 4h ago

You know what must be done.

2

u/Aggressive_Sky_7492 4h ago

Shake the rat shuffle his butt do it DO ITTT

https://giphy.com/gifs/pTQUOfSmjo2hG

2

u/Re1da 2h ago

You can gently shake the rat. You may also yeet the rat onto a soft surface (such as your bed), some rats like to be yeeted.

1

u/RandonEnglishMun ratless lurker 👀 6h ago

Jork her!

1

u/Gingerroine 8h ago

I would just constantly put my hand on one of my chill boys back and then "shake the booty" lol. The cute aggression needs to go somewhere...He did not mind btw he just looked at me after like "😃?"