The Williams Family Shares a Rat "Tail": Being kind to a difference of opinion whether it involves a tail or not

This little rhyme is a story about pet rats. Just hearing the word rat makes some people's skin crawl, while other people defend their little spirits as the best rodent a person could love. I'm not certain just when we decided rats would make great domestic pets. Perhaps lab technicians, who used them in a plethora of experiments, found that many of their lab specimens had actually shown a sensitive, caring, and loyal nature. My family, as one of many, is overjoyed that rats are being offer...