Another five minutes of my fifteen

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.