Neiro won my free-drawing, I counted the number of entries, entered it into random.org and went down the list.

But really, at the risk of sounding corny the real winners were the rats ^_^

I went to the house of the person that wrote the email linked in the rat project journal and met some of the rescued rats firsthand. The babies are the CUTEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN!

The mother that was found under the couch is now named Maestro. The three babies that needed nursing are now back to heath and the half-blind youngster has been adopted by the people that found him. He was so small, just barely the size of a mouse!

The babies were bright-eyed and inquisitive and the mother was the sweetest, she pulled my hand into the cage and made sure it was nice and clean with her tongue ^_^ She let me scritch some of the babies. I watched as she lay on top of a double-tiered hammock and one baby latching on her nipple was so involved with nursing he didn't notice that he rolled off the hammock, his little feet just stuck out as his bottom half hung in mid-air. His mother didn't seem perturbed, though it looked quite odd!

Of the others, many of the rescues from that place were very friendly. She had gotten most of them off Craigslist, it seems a lot of them are very well-adjusted to people thankfully! There was one that needed to be euthanized because it had both health and behavioral issues--very sad but unfortunately sometimes there's nothing you can do more to help.