 irritated by this no they're not irritated at all these are very very placid animals it'd be almost impossible to get one of these to bite you unless you were feeding it and it made a mistake you know they're so docile okay we've got the small one out the box it's tongue is touching the end of the microphone is it sort of like what is this is this a large fluffy rat is that what it's thinking gotta check it out could be breakfast