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Rats are the best pets ever. I just wish they lived longer. Having to mourn your critters every 3 years max is so rough. We had 4 different litters of rats and our one dog has watched every one of them come and go.

You're presenting this as a joke, but after the Anthropocene ends, the Age to Come will be dominated by rodents. We've spread aggressive and highly adaptive rats to every corner of the globe, and after we go extinct they'll evolve to fill the niches that have opened up. They are our inheritors.