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Is it just me or is this rat actually kind of cute? It was munching on breadcrumbs left out for the birds at Haga park.

Also, there was this very pretty robin jumping around and pecking at the ground right next to the rat. I wish I had gotten a good enough shot of him instead, but he was so spastic that it was hard to get him in focus and by then I was both cold from kneeling in the snow and out of space on my memory card, so I had to give that one up.

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Panasonic

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DMC-GX8

Aperture

ƒ/5.6

Focal length

264mm

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1/100s

ISO

400

Markus Jansson

Published 7 years ago

Lesley Yep, dang it, that's a cute ratty. Yeah, I try not to broadcast that I think rodents are cute. Mind you, I don't want a loose one ever living in my house! But out in nature like that? Sure, it's cute! We've had the caged tame ones as pets. I was a school teacher in a remote village and the pet keeper in the pet store told me it was the only small pet for the classroom that she could guarantee wouldn't bite my students. She was correct. Those two ratties never bit the children in my class and they handled them daily.

7yrs

Markus Jansson Yeah, I think context is king when it comes to rodents. A well groomed rat in nature? Pretty cute. A dirty rat leaping out of the waist high trash can right beside you on the sidewalk (happened to me a few days ago)? Not so cute!