si dawson

I was at a friend's place hav­ing a cof­fee when I saw the weird­est thing (to help you out, I cir­cled it):

Can you see it? Nope, nei­ther could I, at the start.

How­ever, we'd been watch­ing the cat (a delight­ful Burmese). The cat had seen some­thing inter­est­ing, so we were curi­ous what it was. Usu­ally this sort of thing is just a bird. This time though, it was a rat, about 6 inches long (plus tail).

Then we watched the rat climb the trel­lis. Uhh, what? A climb­ing rat? Well, ok, I used to be one of those, so I can dig that.

That's when it got sur­real. This rat grabbed one of the roses in its teeth, pulled it off & started climb­ing down. Now, I got to my cam­era after it got a foot down the trel­lis, but check these pics out (I've tried to keep the same rose in the top right hand cor­ner so you can track the rat eas­ier as it pro­gresses downwards):

Just behind the 'marker' rose.

now well below it

even fur­ther

and right off the bot­tom & into the garden.

Wow, crazy.

Oddly, Google doesn't have much in the way of "hey, rats love to eat roses!", so maybe I just got lucky.