09 July 2008

Without my Uncle Rat's consent

Just a quick comment about the abundance of mice and rats in children's books, tv, and video. It freaks me out. Mice are not cute. Rats are even less cute. Ugg... I just read a book to Ollie about a little rat riding a horse. Why is that necessary? An armadillo, opossum, or even a prairie dog, but a rat? Have these people ever seen a rat. Gross.

2 comments:

Shug said...

How very strange....Mother used to say EXACTLY the same thing. She could not stand to see all of the mice and rats that are supposed to be "cute". How interesting......
Shug

Anonymous said...

I totally agree... they are everywhere! Mice and rats gross me out. We had a mouse in the garage and it took all I had to even park my car in there. Why can't a cute little kitten be writing the horse?