We have a new friend!  Her name is Zac the Rat.  She ran in our garage a couple of weeks ago and Mommy caught her.  We tried to find the owner, but none of our immediate neighbors had a pet rat.  Mommy didn't want her to get hurt, so she brought her and the container inside and put it in the dog cage just in case she got out of the container.  When we got home that night my Daddy had shredded some paper for her, then built her a house from a cardboard box and put some carrots in for her.  Oh...and put her in a bigger container.  He's so nice!  A few days later we still didn't know what to do with her so we took her to the vet to make sure she was okay.  She let the vet pick her up, take her temp., listen to her lungs and listen to her heart!  She was so good.  The vet said that she is healthy and just keep an eye on her for the next couple of months.  She said if Zac the Rat starts to withdraw or her eyes start looking cloudy or her coat starts looking bad, then she's probably sick with something and we shouldn't touch her.  The good news is...Zac has become more and more social!!  She climbs all over her cage!  Oh...Daddy had ordered her a new cage specifically for rats and rodents!  Anyway, she doesn't hide when someone walks up to her cage anymore.  She's so cute!  Mommy is afraid to hold her though because she tried to taste Mommy.  She didn't try to taste Daddy though...I wonder if Mommy had something on her hands.   Hmm????

Oh...and her name, Zac the Rat (even though she is a girl) is from Starfall.com because when Mommy told me that a rat was in our garage, I asked her if it was Zac the Rat!  Hee hee!  Then I just started calling her that all of the time.