Habibti's Adventures

  Make sure you tell Habibti how cute she is      Before meeting the rats in the lab for the first time, I had quite a positive impression of them. I saw them as cute little animals that like to run around and these cute animals were harmless. I hadn't had the chance to deal with rats before so I can't really say my impression was truly based on anything specific. I was able to hold Habibti last week on two occasions and she was extremely soft and adorable both of these times happened since past Tuesday. My impression of rats hasn't changed much I still see a really cute animal running around everywhere in its cage and part of my impression being the same is caused by the little interactions I have had with Habibti. I will make sure to see how my impression changes throughout the semester when I get to handle Habibti a lot more and talk about it in my blogs. Reed and I decided to name our rat Habibti, it's arabic written as حبيبتي and it means my love, my darling, my...