{"id":10176,"date":"2025-08-27T15:56:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10176"},"modified":"2025-08-27T15:56:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:56:56","slug":"pet-rats-using-paws-to-create-mini-masterpieces-that-have-sold-for-over-2600-total","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/08\/27\/pet-rats-using-paws-to-create-mini-masterpieces-that-have-sold-for-over-2600-total\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet Rats Using Paws to Create Mini Masterpieces That Have Sold for Over $2,600 Total"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>Eighteen-year-old Ella Woodland\u2019s pet rats have a knack for artistic expression, and by guiding them to paint mini masterpieces, she\u2019s helping their talents flourish. Eighteen-year-old Ella Woodland\u2019s pet rats have a knack for artistic expression, and by guiding them to paint mini masterpieces, she\u2019s helping their talents flourish. There\u2019s a little something in this project for Woodland, too: She\u2019s made around $2,600 to date selling the pieces online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She kicked off her side hustle in February, when she got the idea to explore her pets\u2019 creative side after seeing the creator&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.toogoodstinypaws.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"TooGoods Tiny Paws, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TooGoods Tiny Paws<\/a>&nbsp;selling her own rats\u2019 artwork online. Woodland\u2019s first three rats \u2014 Gubler, Rumple, and Reid \u2014 were an early Christmas present from her parents last September. A few months later, she was given newborns \u2014 Hotch, Morgan, Rossi, Luke, and Gideon \u2014 bringing her total to eight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighteen-year-old Ella Woodland\u2019s pet rats have a knack for artistic expression, and by guiding them to paint mini masterpieces, she\u2019s helping their talents flourish. Eighteen-year-old Ella Woodland\u2019s pet rats have a knack for artistic expression, and by guiding them to paint mini masterpieces, she\u2019s helping their talents flourish. There\u2019s a little something in this project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":10177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-27-at-16.53.38.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10178,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10176\/revisions\/10178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}