Sunday, August 15, 2010

WHO ARE THE REAL RAW RATTIES?


MILLEFEUILLE ON TOP OF THE WORLD
The real raw ratties are Cat's two little furry creatures, Millefeuille and Chevrefeuille. They are both males and pretty much RAW!
    Millefeuille (or Mille for short) was so-named after a French pastry, which is a triple-layered confection of fluffy pastry, cream in the middle and a thick, hard sugary coating on top. He's a natural gourmet and loves his food. He's always been rather chubby, not owing to the fact that his other favorite activity besides eating is sleeping. He's a quiet, submissive kind of guy, but he can be sneaky, like when he's stealing his brother's food when he's not looking! He's also a great inventor, builder and environmentalist; he's always popping into the recycling bin to reuse paper and plastic bags to make different kinds of nests in his cage (much to the annoyance of his brother, Chevrefeuille, when the building is in progress, but he benefits from the finished product!). He's also a very clean guy, frequently grooming, but he believes he can do it himself; he's really not into water (and bathing), even watching Cat doing dishes makes him fidgety and he'll only stay on her shoulder a handful of breaths before he has to bail out.

IN YOUR FACE, ZUKO!
Chevrefeuille is French for honeysuckle, a flower. That name really belies what Chev is all about! He's a beautiful flower when he's sleeping, but he more aptly fits his nick name Prince Zuko (Zuk or Zuko), named after the Prince Zuko in the animation series Avatar who was constantly discovering new frontiers on his journey of self-discovery. That would be Zuko, constantly trying to climb the barrier that exists between his cage in the kitchen (the free range area) and the living room (the big free world, where the bathroom harbors some really nice baskets with clothes that seemingly need to be redesigned with holes for aeration). In his younger days, he used to rock climb Cat all the way up from feet to head, but then he took a pointer from Mille and now tugs on the bottom of her pants to be let up. He enjoys running along big pipe tubes, especially to see where he comes out when they are turned around or placed in different locations, pouncing on Mille to assure that he is the big KING brother, being tickled on his belly, supervising all of Cat's activities while on her shoulder, and anything that involves getting in t-r-o-u-b-l-e: like attempting to steal food on the kitchen island or ripping up the garbage bag because just maybe the lid will pop open and expose some tasty treasures within!

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