Another five minutes of my fifteen

[womzilla]

nellorat and supergee have both already linked to this, but:

Critter comforts

[nellorat], who keeps 14 pet rats--in cages--in her Yonkers home, fell into the rodent world by accident. About five years ago she was looking for a new pet hamster when the shopkeeper asked if she'd ever tried a rat. She agreed to take one home, named him Bilbo Baggins and "just totally fell in love.''

The dead-tree version had a very good photo of nellorat and three of the kids, in which I also appeared as a dark lump with a very high forehead.

Comments

[fjm.livejournal.com]

That was lovely. And I don't think of rats as exotic either. If I ever lived somewhere were a cat wasn't an option, I'd consider both rats and ferrets (although not together).

[nellorat.livejournal.com]

I know people who have both rats and ferrets as pets, but the idea does make me a little nervous.