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"They are called scientists."

Yes. But they have been known to have been as wrong as they have been right.

I am not trying to argue this case. I was just having fun with the idea that (according to scientists) rats were here before us. I don't follow this, but that doesn't matter.

Rats are pretty smart, ya know???????

I fought one over a bag of chips, and I had a knife, but he had a semi-auto. (sarcasm : )

Seriously, the rats were stealing various crackers from the tavern I was working in.

In the back room, below the flooring, we found the rats had stacked the crackers up in piles, unwrapped, BY TYPE.

I kid you not.

In the back room, below the flooring, we found the rats had stacked the crackers up in piles, unwrapped, BY TYPE.

I have always had kind of a zoo when it comes to animals. So when I got to college and lived in the dorms, I wanted to get a pet, but I was restricted to small animals that could live in a small tank. I went to the pet store and started checking out the rats they had for sale. There was one off by itself that said "trained pet rat" on the tank. I asked what it was trained to do, and no one seemed to know. I bought her for $6.

Well, she was a smart little bug. I found first off that she was trained to ride around in the sleeve of her owner. Freaked me out when she bolted up my sleeve, but I got used to it. She would ride in my sleeve everywhere and poke her nose out. Also, if you let her run around, she would only use the bathroom on a piece of newspaper in the corner of the room. Litter trained. She would also clean up the trash. I came back to the room, and she had found every crumb and stray scrap of paper and had moved it to the corner of the room by the trash can. The carpet was basically spotless. I had her as a pet for 4 years, and she was one of the best pets I've ever had.