Found: Pet Rat in Mission Beach

The last few days we've had this rather cute fuzzy rat on our deck. At first we thought it wasn't a real rat. But the girls were scared of it. Ick! Run! Well, of course it is a quite real rat. But it is a pretty chill laid back rat. Its even pretty clean. It has hair that looks like something Billy Idol would have....although the rat has grey hair. Usually you chase after a rat, and it runs away, but this one kinda ambles around.

That was on Saturday. I saw the rat again today, on my deck. Just loafing around, sniffing stuff. Kinda like you'd think a dog or a cat would do. Of course if there were any cats around, I suspect this rat wouldn't be.

So anyway, there is no way this is a wild rat. Did I mention its clean, and not afraid? So I think its someone's pet rat. Anyone lose one? If you did, drop me a line! And if you didn't, drop me a line anyway to answer this simple question: Do people really have pet rats? I guess they do b/c I saw that one guy down in OB with the silly thin pony-tail that had a pet rat (the pony tail a lame attempt at mimicing the rat's tail?). It was (or I presume still is) an albino, with scary red eyes. And it kinda lived on his shoulder and would crawl inside his shirt. Not as cool as the rat living on my porch these days.

This rat kinda has that frazzled Einstein hair kinda thing, almost like you'd expect it to start talkin' to ya and telling you about Flux-Capacitors and Gravitational Constants and other craptastic stuff that would put you right to sleep if a rat wasn't talking about it.

That hasn't happened yet.

So anyway, if you know someone with a missing rat, let me know.