The rats are starving

I know they are. They tell me so.

Trudy: You forgot to feed us.

Oreo: We haven’t eaten in days!

Trudy: We’re wasting away!

Oreo: See, our food bowl is empty… You’re so cruel to us *snif*

Cupro: I can see your food bowl is empty…

Trudy: [With mouth full] We affen ad any food fer agef.

Oreo: [Lies in bed and quivers feebly] So… hungry…

Cupro: [looking at huge pile of stashed food with a small piece of bedding draped over the top]
I see… And what happened to all that food I gave you half an hour ago, which I hand fed you, for lo, you are a pair of lazy rats who won’t play in the playpen I made you, and consequently are turning into fat little so-and-sos?

[Trudy & Oreo contrive to look innocent]

They lie though their pointy teeth. Teeth I might add, which they wear down on the gnaw toys they have, in between gorging themselves on the food they claim they don’t have and the treats they demand.

In fact, Trudy’s put on a sudden growth spurt and is larger than Oreo. She#s well on her way to being a squishy tubby ratty. Oreo may spend all day in bed, but I suspect that just gives Trudy time to eat Oreo’s dinner.