[Quiet Man Cometh]

I liked my rat Basil. He was fat, but he would stick around when I let him wander. I actually lost him on the first day because I left the cage door open and I was near tears looking in my room, and then I looked up from rooting through my clothes shelf and there he was...about two inches away on the shelf above and looking at me. He wasn't there before and apparently just came out. Hi favourite haunt was behind the fishtank and he could usually be found there if he had been wandering for a bit.

We did have to padlock the cages eventually though, because both rats (my sister's and mine) could open the doors.

My older sister had a rat, Ben, that she used to take camping that would follow her around on the ground while she walked about. Cute guy. :)