We ended up closing out the Sly Fox and heading back to our apartment for some Saturday night after hours. 4:25am. We keep the same hours as our rats. Eeek!
When you have four rats, you obviously cross over into "crazy rat people" territory, which means that every single person either one of us knows sends us ANY kind of news that's even remotely rat-related (much to Meredith's greatest joy, btw).
It's through this "rat news network" that we learn of a woman who's adopted a tiny female rat from an owner who originally bought her to feed to his pet boa constrictor, but after the tiny rat survived multiple attacks, decided, like a little Emperor proceeding over a tiny gladiatorial colesium, to let her LIVE! (Yep, that tiny little one in the upper left corner of this photo).
Then Meredith saw a Craig's List posting that was looking for people who were interested in adopting fawn-colored rats. She went to pick up the fawn-colored rat and when she arrived they told her that they'd only give her a brown one if she ALSO took a second white rat! Two for the price of one bringing the grand total up to FOUR!
Can you believe that at one point we had FIVE PET RATS? It started out as ONE PET RAT! Then we read that rats are such highly social animals that some people consider keeping them alone cruel! Doh! So we got a second rat, NBD.
