by Tammy Frost

Created on: August 10, 2009   Last Updated: August 28, 2009

Do you want to hear my story about my secret little pet and my small apartment? Pets and apartments are two subjects that highly relate to me and my family. I live in an apartment and my family and I have a secret pet rat. Four years ago, our apartment was newly built which led to many unreasonable rules. One of the rules stated that we could not have any pets in our apartment unless we paid a $300 pet fee for each pet.

Of course we signed the lease. At that time we had no pets and didn't really plan on purchasing or adopting a pet. A couple of years went past and my young daughter kept asking sadly to be an owner of a pet. I don't think she cared what type of pet it was, she just constantly asked to have a pet of her own. My friend, who had a couple of dogs that just had puppies, asked me if I wanted a puppy for my daughter. I said "no" without hesitation and then when I went to visit my friend and help her out with the newly born puppies, I couldn't resist!

Yes, I ended up taking a very loveable puppy home for my daughter. With the thought in my head, "I can just hide the puppy from the managers" I explained to my six year old daughter, the main key elements of caring for a pet. She was very excited and played with the puppy for hours. Unfortunately, when it came to cleaning up the puppies messes the next day, my daughter no longer wanted anything to do with the puppy. After adoring the puppy for awhile and after many thoughts of having the puppy hidden in my apartment, I came to my senses and returned the puppy to my friend.

A couple weeks had passed and both my daughter and I were very disappointed about the whole puppy incident. Then out of the blue, my boyfriend came running up our apartment steps, with his bloody hands clasped together, he shouted "hurry get me a box." To my surprise, my boyfriend had caught a domesticated rat that was hiding in a bush outside our apartment. I assume, somebody no longer wanted their pet anymore and let it loose outside. Without thinking, I asked my boyfriend "are we going to keep it"?

My boyfriend was very surprised by my question because he knew I wasn't fond of rodents. We kept the frightened little rat in a large box while we debated on if we were going to keep her. After only a couple hours of bonding with and nurturing the cute black and white animal, we decided to name her Oreo! She is our secret little pet that we place in her cage and hide when we have mandatory housing inspections. If it came down to us having

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