Dogs like napping on their owners' laps, cats chill in boxes, and rats lay their bodies on... mattresses. Or rattresses. At least that's how the woman who makes them calls them.

Dogs like napping on their owners' laps, cats chill in boxes, and rats lay their bodies on... mattresses. Or rattresses. At least that's how the woman who makes them calls them.

I have been taking pictures of pet rats for years hoping to break the negative image that is often associated with these lovely animals. Here are some of these photographs, both of my rats and of my friends' rats and, as you...

I have been taking pictures of pet rats for years hoping to break the negative image that is often associated with these lovely animals. Here are some of these photographs, both of...

Diane Özdamar

Dutch artist Nadya Bonten-Slenders creates beautiful illustrations, usually with one or more rats as the center point, though every now and then she branches out to hamsters, cats, pandas and sometimes even people. Nadya has been running her own illustration business...

Dutch artist Nadya Bonten-Slenders creates beautiful illustrations, usually with one or more rats as the center point, though every now and then she branches out to hamsters, cats, pandas and sometimes...

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