World Rat Day

Intelligent, social animals with great empathy, domesticated rats make great pets!



You can find out more : World Rat Day

And maybe check out Karni Mata, a female Hindu sage whose temple is home to rats which are considered sacred. A person born under the Chinese Horoscope of the sign of the rat "is respected and considered a courageous, enterprising person". Other cultures and superstitions also see many positive aspects to the rat as animal, companion, or totem.

I don't currently have any pet rats of my own :( but my sister has two adorable boy ratties that I sometimes get to play with.
You can see pics of my past lovelies in earlier posts, usually tagged "ratties are awesome" and/or "pets".

I'm supporting the day on Twitter, where you can add ears and a tail to your twitter icon:


(The Da Vinci's Demons fandom has cat!riario covered, rat!leo isn't such a stretch? :D)