We had a rat in our house!!!

I know, who would voluntarily invite a rat in their home....well, us. Madison's 1st grade class has a pet named Lullabelle. Lullabelle is a hairless dumbo rat, and oh yes, has a long freaky tail. Well, Madi has been begging all year long to let Lullabelle spend a weekend in our home, even though we have cats. Well, I finally gave in. When Lullabelle was delivered to our home by the teacher (I refused to transport it), I screamed! It scared me to death! Lullabelle stayed in her cage for a few hours, then I finally walked over and just looked at her face and she was actually pretty cute...so I held her, that freaked me out...so back into the cage. We let her run around in the ball in the house, and the cats were scared of the rat! Go figure. I now have a better appreciation for Lullabelle. Not any other rat, but Lullabelle :) Hudson liked chasing around the ball with the rat in it... he was very curious.