Fancy Rat and Mouse Day is this week, the purpose of which is to encourage people to forget about dogs and cats and adopt rats and mice as pets instead.
I am not making this up.
I am also not kidding about its origin story, which began in 1901 in England when a woman named Mary Douglas asked permission to bring her pet rats to an exhibition of pet mice. T…
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