Rat goes to Hospital

My poor little Freddie! I found three lumps on her - one on her groin, one in her neck and a small one on her foot. She had an operation two days ago and despite having Chromic Mycoplasmosis (incurable respiritory disease) and being under the anesthetic for an hour she survived! However, a day later she decided to pick out all her stitches, leaving her with a huge and bloody open wound - yuck!! Poor Fred :( So she had to go back to the vets to get her groin glued up and a cone put on her neck to stop her getting at her stitches. Needless to stay, I had to hang out with her the whole day to prevent her trying to get at them (regardless of being a conehead).

Poor Frederika. I love her so much.

The happy news is that the tests came back today and the lumps are not cancerous - yay! Thank you God!

Love you lots Rattie,

Love Mummy xx

Freehand rat sketch from photo

Sketch from a photo from site 'Scary Animals' (for real!).

Another Rat Drawing

This is a freehand drawing I copied from my first coloured drawing. I'm trying to move away from outline-tracing.

Rats! Rats! Rats! My Rat Sketches

Inspired by the movie Miss Potter and always frustrated by the fact that I "couldn't draw", I sat down determined to draw my favourite animals and maybe one day write and illustrate a children's book. These are only my first attempts so please bear with me :) For this first sketch, I traced the outline form something off another website and did the colouring and shading and detail myself.