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Celebrity Rat Owners
We're not the only ones who have discovered what wonderful pets rats can make; check out these famous rat-lovers:
Clint
Eastwood (Actor)
Source: ABCNews.com
Article.
Clint even cleans their cages!
John
Cleese
(Monty Python)
Source: Rat Report, February 2001. Sam and Tony put him at ease before he
tackles a project. Here's an article on
Monty
Python's Daily Llama that mentions them.
Frankie
Muniz
(Malcolm on Malcolm in the Middle)
Source:
Yahooligans
Chat Transcript. At the date of this chat, Frankie's rat had no name
yet...
Justin
Berfield (Reese on Malcolm in the Middle)
Source:
Teenmag.com
Article and
Efanguide.com
Biography.
Edward
Furlong
(Terminator II)
Source: Rat Report, November 1998. Saved rats from the filming of the movie Pecker,
which were going to be killed after filming.
Angelina
Jolie
(Girl, Interrupted, Tomb Raider)
Source:
MSN
Entertainment article. Harry was a gift from her husband, Billy Bob
Thornton.
Grace
Slick
(Jefferson Airplane, Starship)
Source: Rat Report, July 2000. She likes being licked!
Howie
Mandell's wife
Source: The Howie Mandell Show where Debbie Ducommun of the Rat Fan Club was a
guest.
Lynn
Herring
(Port Charles and General Hospital)
Source:
Celebrity
Interview Q&A archive
Rikki
Rockett
(Poison)
Source:
Animal
News.com Interview
Marylin
Manson's mom (Parent of Freak... I mean Recording Artist)
Source:
Oh
the things you find on the internet.... He had a pet snake, and she
was supposed to feed it rats when he left home. Instead, she adopted them as
pets.
Michael
Jackson
(Musical Artist)
Source:
Africana.com
Article. Wrote a song about his pet rat Ben ("Ben", 1972)
Beatrix
Potter
(Author)
Source:
RMCA
Article. Dedicated a book ('The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or the Roly-Poly
Pudding') to her PEW
Theodore
"Teddy" Roosevelt
Source:
Article from Bartleby.com.
Had a male 'piebald' and two kangaroo rats; also kept dogs, a macaw, a pony, and
a flying squirrel
Taran
Noah Smith (Mark on Home Improvement)
Source: An issue of People Magazine (dated 09/03/01) featured a photo of Taran
with his pet rat and dog.
Pink
(Recording Artist)
Source:
Radio Station 107.5 KZL in NC
in the Music News section. "In concert this summer, Pink will be able to
bring her two most prized possessions with her on The Party Tour. 'I'm taking my
rats,' Pink said. 'Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They're
so cute.'" Pink recently wrote a letter to Petco, urging them to stop
selling live animals. Thanks for joining the crusade! Read her letter
here.
The
Mikkelsons (Snopes.com Geniuses)
In a recent interview,
Barbara Mikkelson confirms she and her husband own "cats and rats,"
which of course the interviewer finds funny because so many urban legends
involve rats. How appropriate--rats, after all, are the poster children for
putting reason and compassion before fear and superstition.
Nicole
Richie and Paris Hilton
(MTV News)
Nicole Richie admitted to owning six rats, all named after characters in the
popular “Beverly Hills: 90210” television series. She also gave a rat, also named after an actor, as a gift to
her close friend Paris Hilton.