Laughing Rat

I never argue with him, when Vermintide comes I want to be on his good side!

Currently at 13 split into groups of 4, 4, and 5. I'm pretty sure if they were all in one group my life would be a Tom and Jerry cartoon.

Slorp, slorp, slorp

A beige and white rat has his front paws and chest resting on a ball of vibrant green, blue, aqua, and black yarn. His eyes are squinty with contentment as a hand gently scratches his shoulders. In front of him, there's a temporarily abandoned knitting project using the yarn he is using as an arm rest. While he may be slightly inconvenient, it's far better for him to interrupt the knitting than chew on it.

Bertram has decided that scratching him is a far better occupation for my idle hands than knitting.

You have to save it for the best, most important Pokemon. That Pokemon is Ratatta.

Little hands!

*smashes the squeak button 157 times in a row*

When I had a golden she was so gentle that my rats used to run to her and sit between her front paws so she could lick them like puppies. Only dog I've ever trusted with my potato babies and I miss her forever.

No thoughts, just 〰️

Hi babies!

It's not working, they should try hitting harder.

Image of two warning signs, one of a red circle around the silhouette of a rat, the other of a red circle with a slash across it in the classic "no" symbol with a silhouette of a child. Text reads "Rats welcome, children must be kept on a leash."

House rules for Rat Meme Monday.

Delicious and nutritious toes

A cranky old hairless rat sits in a glass nursery cage with his eyes closed trying to go to his happy place as a baby Himalayan rat shoves himself bodily under his chin. The baby is rolled on his side with his feet pressed against the glass, showing off his giant pink feet.

"Uncle Hector, pay attention to MEEEEEE!!!!

Old crusty men Hector and Diomedes are allowed to visit the babies in their nursery cage every evening. Hector and Dio love to play with the babies for about five minutes, and then they remember they 2 1/2 and waaaaaay too old for this shit.

A baby blue rat with big, big feet twists around to groom his back end. His butthole is aimed directly at the camera. Behind him, grumpy old hairless rat Diomedes sits in a yellow tissue box with his eyes closed in what might be happiness or might be mild irritation as a baby Himalayan rat affectionately nibbles on his ear.

One baby chews his butt while another chews his new uncle.

He's a bit scraggly in person but he's also the sort who closes his eyes in bliss when you skritch his butt

Bert always looks like that, Magellan is lying he actually has everything he could ever want in life, Myshkin is indeed a root vegetable with ears, and Ajax hides his demonic nature behind his handsome face.

Four rats sitting in a row in their cage. From left to right, Bertram, beige and white and rather grumpy looking, Ajax, agouti and white and looking like he's thinking about crimes to commit, Magellan, black with a white belly with his paws on the cage bars ready for action, and Myshkin, fawn with nibbles bitten out of his ears and looking like he doesn't know what or where he is.

So rare to catch a family portrait. From left to right: Bertram, Ajax, Magellan, and Myshkin.

It's all a ruse, the evil is buried deep within. Stay on your guard, and bribe them into good behavior with many worms.

One of them is going to start talking politics any second now

Three baby rats in a cuddle puddle under a wooden bridge toy. In the back, a Himalayan baby has his face tucked down in the pile. On top, a black and white hooded lad is grooming his Himalayan brother. On the bottom, a blue boy is asleep on his side with his giant pink feet sticking out like the legs of the Wicked Witch of the East.

Roses are red, violets are blue, here's a baby rat pile for you

They do not have names yet, we need to get acquainted first.

A baby black hooded rat with very large ears peeks curiously out of a purple ball toy.

A baby Himalayan rat who does not have his points yet peeks suspiciously out of a purple ball toy. He has a very impressive spray of whiskers.

An inquisitive baby blue rat steps out of a purple ball toy. His black hooded brother is behind him watching.

Ohoho, some new challengers have appeared!

He got to fixing that almost immediately 😆

Diomedes the hairless rat peeking out of a clean, new, un-nibbled, un-peed on blue hammock with pastel colored cowboy boots on it. He looks very satisfied with himself.

Face of a man who just got a brand new hammock.

Image of philosopher Rene Descartes with the text "the operative word is Cogito you dumb fucks". Descartes "cogito ergo sum" is Latin for "I think, therefore I am". AI models are, despite what AI evangelists would have you believe, incapable of thinking.

Descartes watching this from whatever corner of the afterlife he's stuck in:

So if I ask it a question about my symptoms in exactly the right way it might give me an accurate answer, but I need to be familiar enough with my diagnosis to be able to tell if the information it's providing is correct. Truly, we are living in the world of tomorrow.

Human is very right about that 🩷

Honoria the hairless dumbo rat sits on a blue plaid blanket shoveling some snack or another into her greedy little mouth hole.

My Honoria passed yesterday, it was sudden but not unexpected as she was 2 1/2 and showing signs of decline. I'll miss many things about her, but what I might miss most is how she would ride on my shoulder and happily brux in my ear as we did chores together. Farewell, my little chatterbox.