Rats!

Ok, so yesterday I was cleaning the laundry area in preparation for getting a washer and dryer from a friend who is moving (yay! no more laundromat) and I was taking stuff down to the dumpster when I noticed that someone had thrown away a ferret cage. A rather large and nice ferret cage, actually.

So of course I couldn't just leave it there. Thus I began wondering what I could do with a ferret cage beyond the obvious -- keep ferrets, which is a little too expensive for me right now.

That's when I looked over my list of things to do and realised that buying frozen baby mice for Hamlet to eat was on the list. And I thought, hmmm . . . I'm spending a decent amount on snake food. Wouldn't it be nice if I could grow my own snake food?

And thus a diabolical idea was born. The ferret cage is now out on my balcony, and home to four rats -- two males and two females -- who will hopefully in time provide me with a neverending supply of snake food. I feel positively evil.

That said, the two females need names, and I'm open to suggestions. Of the two males, one is albino and one is bicoloured -- grey front half and white back half with a few grey speckles. His name is Gormless, after the dream I had awhile back of owning a rat named Gormless. Keeping the theme of rare words as names, the albino male is Gruntle.

Of the females, one is white with a cream coloured stripe down her back, and the other is grey with a white belly. I need names for these two. I'd like to keep the theme of odd words, and was thinking perhaps something ending in -ity. After all, Charity and Felicity are already names. I just need to come up with a few more obscure ones.

So yeah, suggestions welcome.