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This morning when I greeted the rats, I noticed there was something odd on top of their bedding litter. It turned out to be a washer from their wodent wheel. But I couldn't get it to snap back on and the stupid thing fell back into the litter, where I noticed the lynchpin that I needed to hold it in place. Then I realized I'd lost the washer. I sifted through a bit without luck and started to pull things from the cage. This attracted the attention of Yates, who saw me sifting and began to help me, shoving the litter into a huge heap of it right in front of the wheel. I finally unburied the washer from Yate's handiwork, all the while with  him so excited to get the wheel working again he jogged back and forth and bruxxed. It's mostly his wheel after all. He immediately climbed in and did a lap once I got it working again.