The morning after I bought Shade and Summit, I was thinking about that pet store.  After all, how often does a person come upon a cage full of rats that has that much variety?  Most stores had black rats or albinos, but no variations like I had seen.  So, I managed to convince Dad to let me get another rat from the place, saying that we should "take advantage of a good source".  So, we drove back and I picked up Streak, an Agouti blazed Berkshire.  She got her name for two reasons; one, her blaze was like a "streak" along her nose, and two, she "streaked" around the cage like no other! She was by far the friendliest of my little group, and was trusting enough to let me flip her on her back and rub her belly!  She was also the only one of my rats who came to her name no matter what; she frequently followed me around my room like a little puppy even when I didn't ask her to! Streak had two tumors surgically removed and otherwise was a very healthy (though fat) rat. Unfortunately, as with so many other rats, she died from an advanced case of mycoplasmosis.

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