Skruttan
"Skruttfia"
Mars 2002 ~ 15 April 2004
Agouti Striped Roan
Unknown pedigree
She was a sweetie as young; she would fall asleep whenever I sat down, petted her and sang lullabies. I could sit and sing and sing and pet and pet and she slept so deep. My little rattie girl.
Then, she got older. And her attitude changed ^^' She was a bitch. It's like that I mostly remember her. As a bitch that wondered why she would bother with humans. A bitch that always had an argument with me about anything. A bitch that got grumpy with me if I didn't give her the right food. A bitch that would scold me whenever I moved around in the cage in a way that was not to her liking.
But I never got really tired with her. She just minded her business, and I minded mine. I almost forgot she had been such a sweetheart as young and shrugged whenever she glared at me when I had done something wrong in her ignoring-humans-as-much-you-can-mood.
So, then she got older. Two years old, she suddenly decided to take liking in a human.
My boyfriend.
We had just met, and he was visiting me for two weeks.
Each morning I would awake to her, sitting at the opening to the cage, glaring at me. That she did until I opened, took her out and placed her on the bed (her hind legs had been bad at her old age, so she couldn't climb down from the cage herself). Then she ignored me in her usual bitchy way, but snuggled up to my bf's neck! Every morning in two weeks. I used to leave them basking in the morning sun, shining in through the window, for about an hour. I used to spend that hour making the rats and my bf XP then she was happy with that and sat at the pillow, waiting for me to put her back as she wanted her breakfast.
(What, personal servant? Noooo XD)
So, my bf left and we was back to old terms again. Only with a little less energetic, old lady Bitch of a rat.
The photography was from the day she suddenly decided that she should start to show affection.
She wanted to follow me everywhere. She crawled out of the cage to wait at the doorstep if I left my room. She wanted to sleep with me in my bed at the night. And she was in so bad shape that I let her. My bitch was gone, and left with me an affectionate, lovely rat lady.
the day after she looked a little bit better, and I decided not go to the vet the day after as I had got time to do.
She still wanted to follow me everywhere and be with me. And I let her. Except for dinner, my mama would have gone crazy... ^^'
So, when I came up after dinner at sat down at the comp, she tried to jump to me, from all over the other side of the room with her bad hind legs. She almost couldn't move them so it looked a bit weird, but she seemed so energetic.
I can still remember so clearly, how I sat down. How she crawled up in my lap. How she licked my hands, something she hadn't done since she was a baby. How she closed her eyes.
...and how she stopped to breath. I almost stopped too. There was a twitch, and my Skruttfia was no more.
I still take it as my little bitch's way of telling me she had a nice time with me. Liked me no matter how she had treated me under her life. I didn't even notice that I had started to cry at first, I just stared at my little rattie and felt emptier than thought I would have done.