Quote Originally Posted by Sonya610 View Post
Loft Lizard that pic of your loft is amazing. What is your avatar? Everytime I see it I wonder what it is, a rat going to heaven?
Thanks for that... my av is a portrait of my rat Ginger. She was a free-range rat that we had. She just recently passed away.

When I got her she was supposed to be a breeder rat, but she ended up being the most abyssmal parent ever. She would not even pull the pups out.

I took a day off from work for both of her litters. The painting is her redmeption. Rats die in walls in urban settings, and no one even knows their existance. So the painting is "Ginger Listening to Dead Babies"... and it is her communicating with her dead babies.

Jerome, the artist, and my partner, draws bloodlines as means of communication, so the bloodlines are her way of communicating with her dead babes, and the floral filligrees are life and growth.

Oddly though, her lack of rat social skills made her the best pet ever. People that have never been in our space do not believe that we had a free-range rat, but she was the best. We had water bottles throughout the loft for her, and she went back to her cage to eat.

Mostly she spent her time sleeping behind paintings and hoarding food in closests.

Thanks for asking,
Bruce

PS: There were 3 portraits painted of her, but we only have the one left, and it is part of our permanent art collection.

PPS: Not a hijack.