Good Rattie PR

[Manderine]

Went to the vets on Friday for Tommy, chuckie and Lugs' checkup. I had Tommy and Chuckie in a travel cage and Lugs in my hood since it was a sunny day. First I passed a little girl who asked me if it was a hamster. She looked a bit scared when I said no but then started asking about there names and aawwwing at them. Then when I got into the vets there was 2 people waiting. I thought one women was gonna freak but she said they were lovely pets and they all had their own personalities and even started stroking Lugs'   . Both women in the vets loved them and had all good things to say about them!! It was a really nice surprise!!!

[JulesDoug]

lolHey maybe we sould set up a rat relations board...take the little critters in public n see who can resist.
Seriously I think people have an opinion without having it backed up with any proof..rats=dirty disease biting..when they see em in the flesh they are proved wrong keep up the good work. lol

[Paul]

Aileen's 70-year-old aunt was very wary about coming to visit us.
By the end of the evening she had decided which of our girls was her favourite and even ventured to poke her fingers through the bars to have them rat-licked!

Interestingly, a pet shop owner once commented to me that, here in the UK, women in their 60s-80s are often quite amenable to ratties.
Apparently they were quite a fashionable pet to have in the 1930-1950 period, so they would have had them in their childhood.
The pet shop man says it's often children accompanied by their GRANDmothers who come in for rats.

On one vet visit a man there with his cat practically abandoned the poor puss because he spent so much time quizzing us about the girls and stroking them.
If we'd been there to bring in a litter for re-homing, he'd have gone home with a couple.

We have only had one woman at a vet who gave us a hard time.
She was there with her daughter and they both had there dogs with them.
So I ignored Mrs Objectionable and chatted instead to Nice Daughter and cooed over her lovely lurcher (we like greyhounds, whippets and lurchers like some of you guys).
Her mother was quite put out!

Paul

[kmw]

Aileen's 70-year-old rat was very wary about coming to visit us.

Paul, I think you've got rats on the brain!  LOL!  

One woman who works in my vet's office HATES my rats - she makes a big wide swing around them, and always looks like she's on the verge of screaming.  Now, how can you be a vet tech if you're afraid of small mammals?  

[Paul]

Aileen's 70-year-old rat was very wary about coming to visit us.

Hey KMW, You haven't met her Aunt!
(I don't mean that, honest Aileen - and Aunt Nancy!)

Paul