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Erin helped me give the rats a bath today. This is usually a very trying process that involves lots of rodent fleeing and them begging me to protect them from, well, me. Erin came up with a new and brilliant method that didn't involve sticking, or trying to stick, an unwilling rodent in the sink long enough to soap up, scrub and rinse it.

She proposed filling the bathtub with a few inches of water and dropping the rats in it. While they still try to flee with every bit of their rodent powers they were rinsing themselves off while doing so. We managed to get them clean and wet with minimal rodent related injuries. Hooray.

They may never forgive us, but they are willing to take treats and consider it.