Of Swans & Snakes in The Lunatic Cafe

The kids absolutely loved Miss Blatz last night! Pretty much all of them wanted to pet or even hold her, and she held up outstandingly, never getting worn out or irritated with them! When I put her back in her cage, her cagemate Sam (they have a mother-daughter relationship, Blatz thinks Sam is her baby) was waiting for her at the door, which is funny because usually Blatz waits at the door when I have Sam out because she's so fussy over her! Many of the kids also said they remembered her from last year. Obviously they were remembering Scurvy instead (I guess it's easy to forget he was black and white and she's just white) but I didn't correct them since, y'know, I don't wanna tell them that one died, but one little girl DID remember and wanted to know where he was so I had to. She was very sorry and advised me to get "one that won't die" XD She also wanted one of mine when I told her I had three others in the basement! One parent was pretty interested too, asking questions about their intelligence, if they needed shots, etc., so I was really happy to get the opportunity to spread rat-info as well as just showing off a positive representation for rats...of course, I overheard many kids telling their parents that they had petted a mouse, or in one case, even a puppy! Dang, she's not that big! I guess she's just so cute and cuddly that people don't connect her at all with the image of "rat" they have in their minds and figure she must be a mouse, since I've noticed many people have no idea what the difference even is (mice weigh a little more than an ounce, people, rats weigh a little more than a POUND!) plus mice tend to be represented more positively in media.

Anyway, this is just me going through a copy of The Lunatic Cafe that I found at the library to make notes on the introduction of swanmanes and naga, as I found them interesting.

( SNAKES AND SWANS IN THE LUNATIC CAFE )