The best thing is that the babies have really amazingly soft fur too.
What's funny is, when I have to bring one of my rats to the vet, and am in public transport, and other people see them in their transport box, there's always a few people asking what kind of animal that is, even though they're visible, and say how cute they look, even the adult ones, and I had people suspect anything from mice to hamsters to guinea pigs (seriously, wtf? guinea pigs?), and then I say that it's a rat and they're like "but not the same kind as in the sewers??" and I'm "well, mine are tame and I didn't catch them in the wild, but it's the same kind" and they are "o.O!" I have no idea whether some people expect dog-sized horror monsters with huge pointy teeth or something, when they hear "rat" but it never ceases to amuse me that not everybody recognizes a plain rat just because it sits somewhere making cute eyes at them instead of running away.
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What's funny is, when I have to bring one of my rats to the vet, and am in public transport, and other people see them in their transport box, there's always a few people asking what kind of animal that is, even though they're visible, and say how cute they look, even the adult ones, and I had people suspect anything from mice to hamsters to guinea pigs (seriously, wtf? guinea pigs?), and then I say that it's a rat and they're like "but not the same kind as in the sewers??" and I'm "well, mine are tame and I didn't catch them in the wild, but it's the same kind" and they are "o.O!" I have no idea whether some people expect dog-sized horror monsters with huge pointy teeth or something, when they hear "rat" but it never ceases to amuse me that not everybody recognizes a plain rat just because it sits somewhere making cute eyes at them instead of running away.