Chase the Rat!

June 2000 - 2001

Chase-chase, the White Terror, was incredibly hyperactive. She was also obsessed with grooming peoples' hands, and gave even total strangers a complete licking. She prefered rough and tumble play, pouncing on her cagemates constantly...

Baby Panda grabs the tail of her "Auntie Chase."

Albino rats are very unphotogenic due to the whole "glowing red eyes like a demon from heck" that you get from the flash.

Besides, Chase doesn't like the flash!

Ahhhh! Scary rat!

Isn't this a great shot? I pointed the digital camera at the rat on my shoulder.

Here you can also see (to the right) Chase's tumor. It was surgically removed, but returned, and the combination of returned tumor, an eye infection, and a stroke was too much for our poor babyrat, and she became the second of our rats (the first was Mariel) to be put to sleep. Both Mariel and Chase were, at the time of their deaths, suffering from major neurological damage and seizures that made it obvious that their quality of life was too poor to hold on to them any longer. Chase-chase is now at the big rat cage in the sky, where she can play in the trash cans all she wants.

Chase shows Elaine who's boss.