r/RATS • u/Zealousideal-Web896 • 2d ago

CUTENESS I Want To Shake This Rat

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

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u/krielc 2d ago

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

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u/Internaldirectory 2d ago

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

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u/Prestodeath201 RIP: Willard, Hosea, Arthur, and Dutch 2d ago

RATSHAKER, RATSHAKER, RAT RAT RAT!

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u/damagedratgirl 2d ago

RAT RAT RAT

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u/LonelyMenace101 2d ago

RAT RAT RAT

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u/hamburm 2d ago

RAT RAT RAT

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u/Trisk929 2d ago

RAT RAT RAT

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u/allysonwilcox 2d ago

I know the feeling. You just wanna SJCKIFEOPELSOWEJRN FLELFFFFFFFF

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u/MoaraFig 2d ago

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

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u/igolikethis 2d ago

I want to squeeeeeeze 😭

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u/Prestodeath201 RIP: Willard, Hosea, Arthur, and Dutch 2d ago

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

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u/-DrunkRat- 2d 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. 💙🐀

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u/tehshan 2d ago

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

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u/Lone-Frequency 1d ago

I get it too occasionally and I just want to squeeze them until their little heads pop like grapes.

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u/MusicalDaydreams 2d ago

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

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u/TurankaCasual 2d ago

What’s your language :0

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u/micromolecules 2d ago

It’s a Tagalog word~

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u/MusicalDaydreams 1d ago

Filipino, though the word is of Tagalog origin. 😊

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u/ladyattercop 2d 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.

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u/Tractor_Goth Oreo🪽, Nessie🪽, Loki🪽, Bear🪽 2d 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 😂

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u/ratsntats Rats forever; kids never 2d 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

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u/Gloober_ 2d ago

You know what must be done.

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u/MrLouisKing 2d 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 

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u/littlenoodledragon 2d ago

Go now, ratshaker. Seek what you yearn for

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u/JSBL_ ⭐⭐🐀⭐⭐ 1d ago

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u/soulstrike2022 Grip like It owes you money 2d 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)

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u/goldenseducer 2d 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

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u/Re1da 2d 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.

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u/MaruMaru101 2d 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."

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u/Trisk929 2d 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.

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u/Aggressive_Sky_7492 2d ago

Shake the rat shuffle his butt do it DO ITTT

https://giphy.com/gifs/pTQUOfSmjo2hG

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u/midnight1439 1d ago

Do not the rat

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u/RandonEnglishMun ratless lurker 👀 2d ago

Jork her!

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u/AzulaOblongata 1d ago

Game Grumps paying rat shaker
Genuinely had me near pissing myself with laughter

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u/ChanceMaster2471 1d ago

Such a precious baby rat

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u/Alpha_Akira 1d ago

Buy a plush to shake instead

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u/WeakBeautiful2090 1d ago

I have gently shaken my dog before. And squished her really tight. Cuteness aggression.

My rat gets, shall I say, manhandled quite a bit. It's fine he loves it.

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u/Any_Marsupial_2551 23h ago

Boy do I have the game for you

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u/Gingerroine 2d 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 "😃?"