Ok, so when I clean out my rat cages I use a big shop vac to suck out the old bedding.. sure beats taking all the rats out to clean the cages, then putting them back again.
Anyway.. I opened one of the cages.. and oh my gosh there's a baby self blue rat... the cutest little thing ever! I pick him up and am thinking of all the lovely blue babies I could breed from him as a sire then *SCHLOOP* into the vacuum he goes.. I held him too close to the darn wand.
I had just emptied the cansiter so it was empty meaning he hit the bottom of it hard enough to kill him.
*sigh*