The Happy Thread

[mab19]

Ooooh, I really don't like rats at all but that is just too too cute.

[Bedlam]

Very cute.
I am sooo happy to have got my tax stuff all organised for the accountant. What a load off.

[goldfish]

A lady makes these little teddies for her pet rat  

One of the  loveliest "awwwww" moments ever

[cookie1]

I'm not fond of rats either but that is really sweet. When DD was in primary school they had a class rat and she brought it home one weekend. I had large encyclopaedias on the lid of the rat house to hold it down. 

[judydawn]

I love how strong and brave you are cookie 

[Cornish Cream]

I'm not a rat lover either but the teddy is very cute

[kezza]

It's so cute.  I think it is the tail that puts everyone off.

[cookie1]

See someone here bought a pie and thought it had a tail in it. Double yuck.

[Nikkit]

Cookie - I'm with you, horrid creatures they are. It is their scaly tail and their teeth that make me scream like a really big girl when I see a rat. And I admit - it can be alive or dead, I'll still scream! 
My kids have both had class rats and when it came their turn to bring them home I marched into the classroom and had a quiet chat with the teacher - something along the lines of "my child will not be bringing that thing home, do you understand me?"

I did like the teddy though...

[Emme]

I'm sorry, I can't stand rats either, cute pic, love the little teddies.
Glad the only thing we had to baby sit during school hols was a goldfish 

[cookie1]

Years ago a friend of DH's invited us to his girlfriends for dinner. When we first got there we saw this tale hanging from a cage. Eventually DH got brave enough to ask if it was a rat. It was. She lived in a small flat so the rat and cage were very near where we ate. I had
Trouble eating a lovely meal with this rat and his tail watching every mouthful.

[Nikkit]

I think I might have gone outside to eat Cookie!

I remember when I was living up in the Straits, was staying at a girlfriends shack on Horn Island. She has a resident rat that lived between the silver lining and the tin - there was no ceiling. There were no walls to speak of either - well there was, but nothing was lined, it was pretty rough. Anyway the rat would come out onto the beams while we were having a beer or eating dinner and would look at us with beady eyes, its scaly tail drooping down.  I spat the dummy one night as I'd had a couple of beers and was sick of it spying on us so I got the broom to give it a good whack. I missed, the rat jumped around a bit, I'm squealing like a girl and dancing around the shack with the broom. My friend was killing herself laughing at my antics, she wasn't much help at all. It got between the lining and the tin and I went a bit ballistic trying to thump the thing. It was pretty funny and I had to give up in the end as the rat had long gone.
He did come back on the odd occasion and I always had an unpleasant word or two to say to it. We never became friends that's for sure!

[astarra]

Those pics are soooo cute. 
we bred rats for a pet shop for a while (tho I banned them in the house, they lived in DHs workshop) so they don't scare me at all, they are actually really affectionate and smart.    They had to be handled from a couple of weeks old so that they were used to being handled before they went to their final owners. Apparently there is a high demand for them in the shops but not many people will breed them!    Was a nice little income for very little work,cuz as we all know, they kinda just breed themselves!!!!! 
But in saying all that, I was totally not for the idea when it was first suggested and it took me a mightly long time to go near their cage, let alone actually touch/hold one!

[dede]

Rats and mice and their beady eyes and long tails just don't do it for me either
But if they leave me alone I will leave them alone. I'm very happy to say I have never seen a mouse or any sign of mice in my house. It must be pretty mouse proof I would say.

But the house I lived in before this one had a plague of mice, they were a constant nuisance

[Katiej]

My DH used to have 3 pet rats.
Luckily this was long before I met him, otherwise me might not be married now!