A Tribute to Peaches.

(photo thanks to Su Mitchell)

I've never done a tribute page to somebody else's rat before, but Peaches was a 
special rattie and I couldn't help falling for her. I hope that this page does her justice. 

Peaches was my friend Joolz's rat. She could be a cantankerous moo-bag at times,
but I fell in love with her the first time I met her at a rat show. I used to email Joolz to make 
sure she was taking her with her to any show that I was planning to go to. I was always
 disappointed if Joolz wasn't going to the show or she was going, but wasn't planning 
to take Peaches with her, I used to nag her to persuade her to take her, LOL. She had 
incredibly soft orange/blue velvet fur, I've never seen or felt anything like it before, it was 
lovely cuddling her, I used to carry her around the  show in a furry bag around my neck, 
she nipped me a few times when I tried to  remove her from it to cuddle her, but that was 
Peaches all over, LOL. She was always been a bit food-obsessive - making a stash and 
guarding it with her life and earning herself  the nickname 'Peaches cowbag' with biting her 
cage mates, now  and then, simply because she would empty the entire food bowl and 
not let them have any food at all! She has over the years lived with (and bitten!) Honey, 
Sugar, Treacle, Truffle, Beryl, Tai, Lunar and Solar, Solar still bears her mark with a 
tiny bite missing from her otherwise round dumbo ear.

Sadly, Peaches had to be PTS  because of inoperable tumours. One of them was the
fastest growing tumours Joolz have ever seen, and it had started impeding her
movement. She will be missed by me and quite a few other people who knew her,
including Moggz and Sabby. Peaches was about three years old when she was PTS.

R.I.P. Peaches cowbag