Maynard was the coolest rat in the world
One of my friend's roommates had a snake who ate rats. I used to visit him in Santa Barbara a lot and I always saw this rat in a tiny tiny box. Maybe 5 inches by 3 inches filled with fucking potting soil and a bottle cap full of water - which of course got tipped over all the time. He was black and white and had a mark that looked like a "F" on his back - for "Fucked". They fed him walnuts and stale bread. It was really messed up. They used to hot box the rat and put him in the cage with this snake every few days but the snake wouldn't eat him.
One day my girlfriend came over and saw this rat and told my friend's roommate that she was taking the rat. It stunned the hell out of him but my girlfriend is pretty intimidating when she wants to be hehe. So we saved him, bought him a 4 story condo rat cage, fed him and named Maynard (yes, Tool)
Then we bought him a friend named Ernie
. Maynard was a nut. We would let him out of the cage and he would tear away to the kitchen or closet or behind the computers and just wander around playing. If a rat can have ADD then Maynard had it.
Just as I left work last night I got a call from my girlfriend that Maynard was very very sick. He was struggling to breathe and when she put her hand under his head he just lay it on her hand. Normally he would jump out of the cage. Maynard used to always fly out of the cage when someone opened it and he would hop like a kangaroo VERY quickly to the same part of the living room every time. After she picked Maynard up he even tried to hop over to that part of the room, but he didn't make it. It was his last run. We rushed him to the vet and they put him on oxygen and said he had pneumonia and basically blamed us. I woulda yelled at him but I was too upset about Maynard. 15 minutes later they told us he died. Maynard was the coolest rat in the world and I'll miss him very much.
One of my friend's roommates had a snake who ate rats. I used to visit him in Santa Barbara a lot and I always saw this rat in a tiny tiny box. Maybe 5 inches by 3 inches filled with fucking potting soil and a bottle cap full of water - which of course got tipped over all the time. He was black and white and had a mark that looked like a "F" on his back - for "Fucked". They fed him walnuts and stale bread. It was really messed up. They used to hot box the rat and put him in the cage with this snake every few days but the snake wouldn't eat him.
One day my girlfriend came over and saw this rat and told my friend's roommate that she was taking the rat. It stunned the hell out of him but my girlfriend is pretty intimidating when she wants to be hehe. So we saved him, bought him a 4 story condo rat cage, fed him and named Maynard (yes, Tool)
Then we bought him a friend named Ernie
. Maynard was a nut. We would let him out of the cage and he would tear away to the kitchen or closet or behind the computers and just wander around playing. If a rat can have ADD then Maynard had it.
Just as I left work last night I got a call from my girlfriend that Maynard was very very sick. He was struggling to breathe and when she put her hand under his head he just lay it on her hand. Normally he would jump out of the cage. Maynard used to always fly out of the cage when someone opened it and he would hop like a kangaroo VERY quickly to the same part of the living room every time. After she picked Maynard up he even tried to hop over to that part of the room, but he didn't make it. It was his last run. We rushed him to the vet and they put him on oxygen and said he had pneumonia and basically blamed us. I woulda yelled at him but I was too upset about Maynard. 15 minutes later they told us he died. Maynard was the coolest rat in the world and I'll miss him very much.
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r.i.p little rodent
just call me mikey... i guess