Weekend smiles

[DainBramaged]

[Auntie Bush]

1. Thanks for the cute rat tricks!

They are such smart little ones.

[IrishAyes]

2. Thanks

Unlike a lot of women especially, it seems, I like domestic breed rats as pets. Concerning their intelligence, researchers recently released a lab study of the other kind showing that even they can express empathy toward strangers of their own kind. They had a divided cage in which one rat was confined w/o food, though the little gate to his section could be opened from the other half of the cage. Then they put a second rat in the second half and gave it food. Before it ate anything, it went and released the other rat so they could both eat.

Years ago a friend had a pet rat that really liked me. At a party at his house one night, I took the rat out of its cage and carried it around on my shoulder awhile. My hair was really long then, and it would sit up on my shoulder, give me a kiss on the cheek, then duck behind my hair, scurry over to the other side for another kiss, and so on. Not everyone thought he was sweet but I did.