Lucy’s Worlds

The Egg and I

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.

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Nelly: It’s mine! All mine!

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Let’s see how this thing works...

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

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Booboo: ’Twas hers, ’tis mine!

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

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A moment of shared bliss...

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

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

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Whoops!

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

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Closing in for the kill.

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Here we go again . . .

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Bonanza!

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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.