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**Bad Rat** · (This post was last modified: 03-12-2013 04:09 PM by Bad Rat.)

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Finally figured out how to hook my camera (I'm new to this technology) up to the computer. What prompted this was finally getting a picture of my cat staring down one of the opossums I feed! Not the best photo, but gives an idea.

Also, a few pics of my rat. A couple look like I flicked the bird at him and he bit me, but those are all just love nips!

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Just thought I'd share some cute with the night owls! Crying

**Thoughts Faux Fodder** · (This post was last modified: 05-30-2012 07:55 AM by Thoughts Faux Fodder.)

he's cute :)What's his name? I have a rat named Doomer, he's fat and lazy chuckle

but a sweetie and a bit similar in coloration to yours . I'll see about getting a pic of him tomorrow to share. Heartflowers

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 97491 05-30-2012 08:01 AM

I have a few opossums that get into my cats food too!!! I would like to relocate them to another place. Got room for about 10 more??? doomed

**Bad Rat**

Thoughts Faux Fodder Wrote:

he's cute :)What's his name? I have a rat named Doomer, he's fat and lazy but a sweetie and a bit similar in coloration to yours . I'll see about getting a pic of him tomorrow to share.

This one is Yoda. I had a couple rats named Grishnakh (orc from LOTR), and went on a Roman Emperor kick (Titus, Nero), and Angus...oh yes, Gilgamesh; he was sweet!

My favorite animal, and I will get another as soon as one passes. I had a rat in 1991-93, and then from 2000-2012 continuously! I had my first mouse at eight (1977) and gerbils, hamsters; but as you probably know, there is no substitute for a rat.

Only bad thing, is the lifespan. They get to be almost human, and then they die.

Can't find a decent emoticon/smilie? for sad, and it is sad, but believe me, my rats enjoy about the best life a rat can have!

**Bad Rat**

LoP Guest Wrote:

I have a few opossums that get into my cats food too!!! I would like to relocate them to another place. Got room for about 10 more???

Ha Ha! Actually, the dry food is specifically put out for the 'possums! My cat won't touch it. I'm weird like that. I will befriend and feed any wild critter that cares to come to my back porch, front yard, backyard, whatever. I probably have at least three 'possums that come, as far as I can judge from the personalities!

The one in the pic is the tame one. I can even touch him before he splits, if I want to. Yes, I gave him a little scritch once!

**Motherduck** · (This post was last modified: 05-30-2012 08:29 AM by Motherduck.)

rats are awesome pets heres a drawing my daughter did of Splat the rat

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she misses him even though he has been gone for over 10 years. She reckons she will get another one when she has a place of her own Heartflowers

**Bad Rat** · (This post was last modified: 05-30-2012 10:28 AM by Bad Rat.)

Motherduck Wrote:

rats are awesome pets heres a drawing my daughter did of Splat the rat

she misses him even though he has been gone for over 10 years. She reckons she will get another one when she has a place of her own

Well, your daughter could have a future as a children's book illustrator! I once planned to write a book about my experiences with rats, and got through 120 pages or so. It wasn't really going the way I planned, so I set it aside. It was too autobiographical, and needed to be either a fantasy or a children's book. If I were ever to revisit it, well, that picture is actually very eerily like what I had imagined for the cover! I mean, I feel like I have seen it before.

That's the same posture I imagined for the rat, but he was outside looking at the moon!

**Motherduck** · **Motherduck** Kiwi Duck User ID: 49375 05-30-2012 10:29 AM **Posts: 8,968**

Bad Rat Wrote:

Motherduck Wrote:
rats are awesome pets heres a drawing my daughter did of Splat the rat

she misses him even though he has been gone for over 10 years. She reckons she will get another one when she has a place of her own

Well, your daughter could have a future as a children's book illustrator! I once planned to write a book about my experiences with rats, and got through 120 pages or so. It wasn't really going the way I planned, so I set it aside. It was too autobiographical, and needed to be either a fantasy or a children's book. If I were ever to revisit it, well, that picture is actually very eerily like what I had imagined for the cover! I mean, I feel like I have seen it before.

I will tell her you said that Heartflowers

she will be stoked Heartflowers

at the moment she is at art and design school so who knows what the future will hold Heartflowers

**BloodRed**

Bad Rat Wrote:

Motherduck Wrote:
rats are awesome pets heres a drawing my daughter did of Splat the rat

she misses him even though he has been gone for over 10 years. She reckons she will get another one when she has a place of her own

Well, your daughter could have a future as a children's book illustrator! I once planned to write a book about my experiences with rats, and got through 120 pages or so. It wasn't really going the way I planned, so I set it aside. It was too autobiographical, and needed to be either a fantasy or a children's book. If I were ever to revisit it, well, that picture is actually very eerily like what I had imagined for the cover! I mean, I feel like I have seen it before.

That's the same posture I imagined for the rat, but he was outside looking at the moon!

**Thoughts Faux Fodder** · (This post was last modified: 05-30-2012 04:29 PM by Thoughts Faux Fodder.)

Bad Rat Wrote:

Thoughts Faux Fodder Wrote:
he's cute :)What's his name? I have a rat named Doomer, he's fat and lazy but a sweetie and a bit similar in coloration to yours . I'll see about getting a pic of him tomorrow to share.

This one is Yoda. I had a couple rats named Grishnakh (orc from LOTR), and went on a Roman Emperor kick (Titus, Nero), and Angus...oh yes, Gilgamesh; he was sweet!

My favorite animal, and I will get another as soon as one passes. I had a rat in 1991-93, and then from 2000-2012 continuously! I had my first mouse at eight (1977) and gerbils, hamsters; but as you probably know, there is no substitute for a rat.

Only bad thing, is the lifespan. They get to be almost human, and then they die.

Can't find a decent emoticon/smilie? for sad, and it is sad, but believe me, my rats enjoy about the best life a rat can have!

Their short life is definitely something that makes it hard, it's amazing how much you can love a rat Jhikpghf

I lost my female hairless Ele earlier this year and cried for days. She was an absolute sweetheart,was my first pet rat and woosh I had 3 before i knew it. Lmao

We have a houseful of critters too, cats,rats,gerbils,snakes and dogs ...seems someone is always draggin' up someone new (too often it's me) chuckle

but they sure bring a lot of joy into our lives, even the ones "just passing thru" like the feral cats we feed, some we see only once but others stick around. Heartflowers

Motherduck Wrote:

rats are awesome pets heres a drawing my daughter did of Splat the rat

she misses him even though he has been gone for over 10 years. She reckons she will get another one when she has a place of her own

WOW!! She has a lot of talent!! That is a wonderful drawing, she captured an air of curiosity and friendliness, not easy to do.. :)

This is Doomer, you can't really tell but he's miffed at me for repeatedly trying to put a tinfoil hat on him for the pic, so that's his version of the stinkeye Lmao

He's getting older, almost 2 now :( and his fur is turning whiter but his head used to be a light beige in the same pattern as your Yoda.
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**Bad Rat**

Thoughts Faux Fodder Wrote:

This is Doomer, you can't really tell but he's miffed at me for repeatedly trying to put a tinfoil hat on him for the pic, so that's his version of the stinkeye
He's getting older, almost 2 now :( and his fur is turning whiter but his head used to be a light beige in the same pattern as your Yoda.

Doomer looks like he's got personality, and great name, but maybe he's not enough of a doomer for that tinfoil hat! One thing's almost for sure: if something wiped us out, rats would probably make out just fine!

**Bad Rat**

Thoughts Faux Fodder Wrote:

Girl does have some talent. I can not say enough in this forum how much that drawing has moved me. Much luck to her, from me. Bad Rat on this site, but otherwise known as...godspetrat.

Heartflowers

**eclipsed** · (This post was last modified: 06-09-2012 04:38 AM by eclipsed.)

aww thats one of them redneck dawgs, in his dawghouse
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**eclipsed**

Bad Rat Wrote:

Thoughts Faux Fodder Wrote:
This is Doomer, you can't really tell but he's miffed at me for repeatedly trying to put a tinfoil hat on him for the pic, so that's his version of the stinkeye
He's getting older, almost 2 now :( and his fur is turning whiter but his head used to be a light beige in the same pattern as your Yoda.

Doomer looks like he's got personality, and great name, but maybe he's not enough of a doomer for that tinfoil hat! One thing's almost for sure: if something wiped us out, rats would probably make out just fine!

he doesnt look all that bright, Anon

but looks are deceiving, yes?

**Bad Rat**

eclipsed Wrote:

aww thats one of them redneck dawgs, in his dawghouse

Love 'possums. I'm sure the ones I feed have gotten that dry cat food by now. Bless them. I love the little critters!