Very Cute CNN Article About Rats

[jd882]

My best friend sent this to me... This article is absolutely beautiful and totally describes how I feel my rats snuck their way into my heart...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/17/living...rat/index.html

[Rodents=Love256]

I really enjoyed that! Made my night for sure. Thankyou so much for sharing. It is wonderful to see others appreciating and loving rats. I posted this to my facebook to enlighten more people

[cagedbirdsinging]

That story has really been making the rounds. I hope that some people in the market for a small pet get a chance to read it! There may be hope for the world outside of ratters afterall...

[Rat Daddy]

I think the part of the story that really hits home is how first time owners get blind sided by their ratties.

Even though I was a psychology major in college, and had read untold numbers of studies done on rats and worked with lab animals and had a friend that had a rat, who swore it was a great pet.... I didn't expect much from a $2.49 critter. Then every day in every little way, she endeared herself to us then as she grew up she challenged our perception of what a rattie could really do and be.

I suppose if I had bought a dog and he became a family member, I'd sort of expect that after having had dogs before. Even with dogs I've been let down. But a rat that could do just about everything a dog could do, and could genuinely show you affection and tried so much harder to do everything... how could you not but fall in love?

[Rinzy]

That was cute

[unlikelyfather]

This woman captured perfectly, perfectly, how I feel after having taken on Ras. It has definitely made me a parent (as anyone can see by my screenname). I was definitely unprepared. I definitely didn't think he'd live. I've definitely fussed over his health. I definitely lost sleep devoting intense care to him. And he's definitely taught me an immeasurable degree about unconditional love and responsibility that I hadn't learned before.

Not only does she summarize how you can come to love a rat, she perfectly summarizes and parallels my entire experience in finding a 7 day old rat pup that no one would take. She and her fiance found a pup of nearly the same age, with no one else on its side, and took it in. This is simply perfect.

[Smilebud]

This is adorable. I read it in a magazine last weekend... It melted my heart. Rats have that way of loving you that no one can resist.

[DustyRat]

Neat story