Silver was my first Wistar laboratory rat. So she was albino, and very pretty. Silver was born on the 16th of April 1989, and she son turned out to be a very tame pet rat. She teached me that Wistar females like to run a lot, at least until they are a year old. She soon got a cage mate and best friend called Byzance and they ran like crazy in their really big, homemade cage.
When she wasn't running and playing with Byzance she was a gentle pet rat.
I did write a story about her and her antics and sent that to the Swedish rat club. They actually published it, but only having rewritten the whole story, almost word for word. I was very disappointed about that. It sort of changed the whole idea of the story, and I didn't want to write anything again for a long time afterwards.
Copyright Eva Johansson.
Last update: 13th of November 2004.