All Things Considered

Say Hello to Tallulah!

Meet Tallulah... the latest addidtion to our ratty family. Ryoma went to buy some provisions for our other girls yesterday evening and saw this little one in the section of the store reserved for unwanted critters. She had a serious eye infection when she first arrived at the store, so she missed being adopted with the other babies. She's spent the last four months of her life waiting for someone to take her home, and for some unknown reason that just didn't happen... until today. She has so much energy, is so friendly, and hasn't really stopped eating since she arrived. We fear she may blow up!

Maris... Emissary for All Ratkind

During a visit to see the local vet, Maris was sitting in a travel case, along with her sister, Mrs Peabody, when a woman in the waiting room asked if the noises being emitted from the case were being made by a hamster. When that woman was told that the girl responsible for the chattering was in fact a rat, she exclaimed 'oh, I hate rats!' and moved away. As Maris appeared, looking as cheerful as ever, and decidedly non-ferocious, the woman became curious and inched forward. She asked if she could stroke the small white bundle of giggling fluff, and then, when the case was opened, proceeded to do so. Maris, loving the attention (which she is incredibly used to on account of her good looks and immense charm), leaned out to accommodate more ratty love. The woman was cured. Maris had achieved her goal... to promote ratkind to the whole world, one scratch behind the ears at a time.

It is so often the case that hatred is the result of ignorance, and Maris proves that each and every time she meets the public. A ferocious flesh-ripping monster she is not. Diseased she is not. She is clean, intelligent, charming, curious, polite. She is everything that those who know nothing of her species, but hate her all the same, assume she is not. The next time you express distrust for, or hatred towards, something you don't understand, ask yourself how you are able to form an opinion without knowledge and experience of the object of those feelings.