Treacle was our first rat, and I still miss him sometimes. He was sweet (especially after castration), warm, and not particularly ambitious, unless you count what he would do for avacado and chocolate. Here he is as a pup playing with my necklace, as a mature rat eating an ice cream cone I scaled down for him, and as an old rat enjoying the heat coming off my computer. He used to like to sleep on my lap when I was working with my computer on my lap. The last one is him asleep on the mate’s lap while the mate was reading a book.
Rats make wonderful colony-mates.
