Mmmmmmmm, vitamins

Pons decided a few swigs of a vitamin drink couldn't hurt her athletic quest.

October 25 - 29 Mileage Report

Okay, I'm just learning how to chart this little experiment - number crunching has never been one of my stronger points. Looks like we are averaging almost a mile per rattie day (human night).

Cereal

The girls have a bedtime snack (which is at their human pet's breakfast time) consiting of Total cereal (because it's covered in vitamins the girls need), a little oatmeal and some fruit. As I was pulling out some of the larger flakes of Total, one caught my eye. It was heart shaped (awwww):

But wait - I noticed that not only was it heart shaped, but it was also rat-face shaped!!!

So I was giving the cereal and fruit to the girls and Venous happened to be the one that got the rat-face. It was so big she held her head up high to carry it. Pons came along, saw it and grabbed onto it. A heated tug-of-war ensued until the thing broke.

They ended up with a broken heart.

Our Starting Point

A Few ZZZZZZZ's Between Runs

And We're Off!!!

The cage is all clean, the wheel is all wired up, and the girls are ready to go. They've been running on it a short time now:

0.140 miles (or 739.20 feet, or 8870.40 inches)       
0.22526 kilometers (or 225.26 meters, or 22526.00 centimeters)
Check back tomorrow for a 24-hour total.

the Scientific Apparatus

This is the $10 bike computer, the magnet, double-sided tape and the tube, which will have to be cut to about a one-inch segment.

The girls are getting excited!!

Methods

An inexpensive bike computer was purchased, along with a magnet and some sticky tape. The magnet will be mounted on the back of the wheel with the tape. The sensor for the computer will be attached to the wheel stand. Using the diameter of the wheel, multiplied by pi (pi = 3.14159265) will give the wheel factor - that is, the number that will be used by the computer to calculate mileage per each turn of the wheel. Each passing of the magnet over the sensor will activate the computer, thus adding the distance for each turn.


Rats like to chew and they will chew through wires. My next task is to go by the hardware store to see if there are any metal tubes through which I can run the wire safely out of the cage and out of reach of the chewers. If I can't find exactly what I need to fit, then I will cut off a piece of my curtain rod, which conveniently happens to be a tube.

Unusual Names

Their names are anatomical names.

Meet Venous and Pons

Venous

Pons