Today I went to feed my little baby girl rat.
She is/was the oldest of our furry little ones. I looked down and new she was gone. Copper is the first on to the side of her cage to get food usually. She had been sick for the past few weeks and was on meds. We thought she was going to live forever because even when she got sick she had all the spunk in the world.
The day we got Copper was almost three years ago now. But I remember it like yesterday. Tani and I went to a fair. At the fair we seen all the games and decided to go look at one we had never seen before. The game consisted of a big wheel with all different colors painted on it, at the edge of the wheel there were holes drilled about two or three inches wide. In the middle there was a bowl over a rat and when someone bet on a color they would spin the wheel, lift the bowl and ring a bell. That’s when I looked up to see poor little Copper running for what she thought was her life to a little hole in the wheel.
Well, I told the guy running the game that I wanted to take home the rat that just had ran into the hole. He asked me why and I said it was very mean to have her in a game just to make money and unless he wanted to get fined to give me the poor little thing. He must have gotten scared because he gave me the darling little rat. I then found out she only had three feet. She had been born with a missing foot on her back right leg. So that night I saved her and she became a very spoiled little fur ball. For a year she was the only pet we had so she got everything. I didn’t know that rat’s lifes were so short, but I do know for the three years she lived except for the very beginning she got what ever she wanted. She will always be in our hearts and thoughts.
With all our love,
| Copper |
| Angel Leffler & Tani Brantley |