Obligatory Rat Cuteness

[rattfan]

...because my gut hurts and brain won't work and this is the best I can manage.

Other night: Luka hops on to my lap, chunk of bread clutched in his hands, either because he feels sociable or thinks it's safer here.

Moment later: Zach gallops past, spots Luka and - without pausing - seizes chunk of bread from him (though their dinner bowl has more of them) then careens onwards.

Luka looks at his empty hands...

It always tastes better when you snatch it from somebody else.

Comments

[hgws]

Hi,
I thought I should add you because we are both in Perth, we both own rats, we both went to Hollywood SHS, we both know chaosmanor and your LJ is readable.

[ratfan.livejournal.com]

Oh, hello :-)

We weren't in the same school year, were we??? 1979/80 I was yr 11, 12.

Sue

[hgws]

No... I was class of '94 (one of the last)
Frankly I'm relieved as my high school memories are not among my happiest...

I had to laugh at your bio as I'm surrounded by nibbled books, nibbled flyscreen door, nibbled carpet, power leads patched up with (nibbled) duct tape... :P

[ratfan.livejournal.com]

Yes, I realised that when I took a look at your journal. I'm with you; school memories are not my best. Did you see the story on cyber-bullying tonight? That gave me the shakes, just thinking of how much worse my own experiences could've been with the Internet.

About rat chewing: One of my most used phrases to them is, "Don't eat the books!" And I've twice had to confess to Telstra that my phone cable has been "chewed by rats" and I needed a new phone. I sort of didn't mention that they'd been my rats...

How many rats do you have? I've got just the two boys at the moment.

[hgws]

Since I did cognitive behaviour therapy about 5 years ago, I've taken to ignoring a lot of the media where possible, because a lot of the time it does really upset me. (I could relate to your entry about getting angry over The West's article on the gay couple adopting a child.) So I avoid TV too if I can. (plus I'm a control freak & can't stand being dictated to as to what times I can watch my fave TV shows, esp. since I discovered getting them via P2P the day after they first air in the US/UK...)
So, anyway, I didn't see that particular story, but yeah I've heard about the issue & it makes me relieved that when I was in high school only a small bunch of nerds (including me) could be bothered learning about computers, and if we were lucky our computing teacher would show us some BBS for a few minutes...

With books, I try to imagine that the paperbacks with their spine bindings chewed off are now somehow mysterious & intriguing, on account of not being able to tell which book they actually are anymore ;-)

I only have 1 (huge) boy at the moment... he is nearly 2, unfortunately his brother had a stroke in January. I have been a bit worried he might be lonely but being set in his ways I think trying to introduce new rats would be difficult...