Blinka
"Blinka"
Mars 2002 ~ Autumn 2004
Black Striped Roan
Unknown pedigree
This little girl is nothing like any rat I've ever met! There just have to be so that something was seriously wrong in that little head. She loved snow and cold winters. If I opened the door to the freezer she came bouncing and demanded to let me let her inside. If I didn't, she bit me... ^^' If we went ouside in the winter, she always foudn a way to get down at the ground, and then I could spend half an hour on playing tag with the little creature. Or at least, I think she played it. She loved to eat enourmus amounts of soap and everything perfumed. She could roam the laundry basket and know exactly which clothes that was new, and she always teared them into pieces. But only new clothes that I hadn't used...
She was always, ALWAYS, up to something. Hiding food, playing tricks on humans or other rats, gnawing one something, trying to get to the soap, climbing up to the hat-rack though there was no possible way for her to do so. And she never did it when I looked, so even now I don't know how she got up there...
There are so much to say about this little freak. It was hard for me to let her move to a new family when my situation was so that I couldn't possibly keep more than a few rats. She moved to a family together with Vildvittra, a nervous rat that by some peculiar reason got relaxed and cool while living together with the wild tomboy Blinka...
No on ever mangaged to make her put on some weight. She was the thinnest rat I've ever seen, but I guess no one had told her as I've never seen a more healthy rat in my life. Despite her habit of eating soap and perfumed things, her unability to gain weight and the fact that she spent so much time in snow and cold, she was never ill in her whole life. She was healthy and never showed any signs of weakness, not even when her friend vildvittra passed away. I heard she just didn't wake up one morning. One can think she just didn't see any point in living when her friend was gone.
I think this little girl really had a fun and wonderful life until the day she died... And she gave me so much!