juliet

Luthien died on Wednesday, of a massive heart attack - Pete heard her falling down the little ladder in the cage, and picked her up in time for her to die in his hands :-( She was 2 1/2 (not bad for a rat), and had been getting visibly older in the last week or so. Her sister Arwen died (again of old age, overnight) on the 3rd March.

They were both wonderful rats - I can't thank arkady enough for breeding them. Arwen was always a skinny little thing, steadily more so as she aged, whereas her sister Luthien was a great big squishy lump of a rat - when she tucked her nose under her to sleep, she became almost spherical :-) Both of them were friendly, although Arwen was more the sociable shoulder-rat (she very much enjoyed settling on someone's shoulder & staying there), and would frequently beg to come out. Luthien thoroughly enjoyed a little scritch but was far more focussed on the eating & sleeping sides of life. Especially the eating! They were both very special in their different