If a baby cat is called a kitten, why isn’t a baby rat called a ritten?

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26 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
In the lobby of a school in Chelsea is a flock of zebra finches. A school of birds.
30 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in 33M, animals, pets, science Tags: animals, aquarium, chelsea, stuffed animals, taxidermy
I love a science lab that has real natural artifacts. This science lab in Chelsea Prep school (33M) was filled with living animals, dead animals, bones, hides and more.
There was also a friendly guinea pig, sitting right there in the middle of everything!
11 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in animals, district office Tags: mouse, rat
I saw a four-legged furry rodent run across the lintel of a hall in my office this morning. It was a long mouse or a small rat.
I love pet rats; this was not a pet rat.
This was Olivia, my first.
Here she is eating spag
21 May 2021 Leave a comment
in science, animals, 323 Tags: ants, ant farm
One Busy Ant is taking the lead in clearing out the tunnel. The other ants are chowing down on a piece of pear. And it was evening and it was morning, day 1.
21 May 2021 Leave a comment
in science, animals, 323 Tags: ants, ant farm
We set up a new Ant Farm (which took about a month to receive). The ants were a little too live coming out of their testtube when I tried to spill them into the farm, so some of them had to be mashed inside… some survivors are missing body parts.
13 May 2019 Leave a comment
in 224Q, animals Tags: chicken, Queens County Farm Museum
At Queens County Farm Museum, which is next door to 224Q, there is a flock of chicken.
This is their story.
Check out the chicken at the 53 second mark. I do believe it is giving me stink eye.
13 May 2019 Leave a comment
in 224Q, animals Tags: chicken, cow, horse, pig, Queens County Farm Museum
Next to a 224Q school in Queens there is a working farm (Queens County Farm Museum). I stopped by the other day and took some photographs of the lifestock. That is the school in the background.
There were cows, horses, ponies(?), pigs and chickens. Wht do you think about the chickens in the tree? Pretty disturbing….