Sugar in the News
Sugar, the pet rat, wins Pet of the Week honors in Philadephia, PA (Jun 29, 2009)
Bad Press in the UK
“BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | A plague of super-rats” article link and the comments I made regarding some of its points.
Forbidden Foods Updated Feb 26, 2009
The plum is a good fruit to feed to pet rats. The plum pit, or stone, could possibly be harmful for rats to eat.
Model Rat
Jessica Florence self potrait and prop photographs of pet rat made into iPaper.
Nutmeg’s iPapers
Free iPod Touch / iPhone Wallpapers of a gorgeous little female rat described as an English Irish Dumbo by the name of Nutmeg.
Good Laundry Day
This was not my usual rat laundry day but this has not been a usual week either.
Good Rat News
British have chosen a very handsome Russian Blue Dumbo rat as: The cutest small pet in Britain.
Rat Years in Human Years
This is by no means a scientifically derived formula, it’s just some easy numbers based on a few simple correlations. So I picked some easy benchmarks to start with: average human lifespan, 80 years or 960 months; average rat lifespan, 30 months; then, human years to rat years would be about 32:1.
These numbers in themselves could be argued up or down.
The Year of the Stainless Steel Rat?!
The current Year of the Rat is coming to a close on January 25, 2009.
This is the Year of the Earth Rat, and the next Year of the Rat, the Metal Rat, will occur in the years 2020-2021. Now that is a long time to wait to celebrate this great little animal with its own year. I [...]
Unusual Rat Laundry Day
Another Tuesday and another day of rat laundry. I do the rat laundry after work at a coin-op laundromat around the corner from our home.
Today was a bit different than usual. Usually there is no one else doing laundry at this time so all is good. I can put on a podcast or a random [...]
