Confession: this is not my original idea. I stole it from Anne’s Rat Page. But it’s such a perfect photo op that anyone with rats and a camera is bound to try it sooner or later. My version was originally posted in the Cuteness forum of the RMCA.

Nelly: It’s mine! All mine!

Let’s see how this thing works...

Zuzu and Cinnamon: Is something happening in the Big Cage? Why didn’t anyone tell us?

Booboo: ’Twas hers, ’tis mine!

Eggs should be eaten on the top floor of the cage.

A moment of shared bliss...

Uh-oh. Shouldn’t have blinked, Booboo.

Nelly: Nobody will ever think of looking for it here!

Whoops!

Cinnamon: Who’s that other rat sneaking looks at my prize?

Closing in for the kill.

Here we go again . . .

Bonanza!

Xena: No time for ladders!
Must . . . reach . . . egg!
P.S. The next morning I found the last bit of egg . . . On the bottom floor of the Backup Cage.