RatKu Contest Winners


Thanks to all of our entrants (all three of them...) for all the ratkus you submitted! You really made it hard for our panel of rattie judges to pick the winner. Our judges were looking for "poems especially pertinent to the lifestyle of the refined rat of today" and here are their top three choices for ratkus that express just that. The panel consisted of our 11 rats whose comments you will find in the brackets below. We hope you enjoy reading these entries as much as we did!

First Place goes to Tanja's rat, Jorkki, who wrote this ratku, which all rats everywhere can relate to! We hope you both enjoy your prize, The Rat by Gunter Grass. Jorkki, don't chew it up before she gets a chance to read it, okay?

Do Not Disturb, I'm
Asleep. Hey, is that a treat?
Please disturb me now!

[Snoogie: This is perfect! I can just picture it now - snoozing in a posh hotel suite with a do not disturb sign on the door. Suddenly the odor of fresh strawberries and cream with yogurt drops wafts through the keyhole....
Gregle: And pizza - don't forget the pizza smells!
Rest of judges: Pizza AND sushi AND bananas AND cereal...
Snoogie: Okay, anyway, really good food smells, and you race to the door, and you find it's a person with a tray of yummy food all for you, and suddenly you're awake and happy, and the world is wonderful, and you don't feel like sleeping any more....
Judges: We love it! First prize, first prize!]

Second Place (along with a box of Vitakraft yogurt drops and a Super Pet Roll-A-Nest) goes to Jane for this wonderfully rattie collection of haikus:

"RATS"
Haiku Tails

Up on the ladder
So far from the litter box
(Was that YOU down there?)

Poop in litter box.
Pee in litter box also,
As well as walnuts.

I love your closet!
Grinding teeth with excitement!
Do you need this dress?

[Softie: Hee, hee - this is me all over!!
Judges: Yeah, that's why mom has holes all over her clothes....]

Think my tail's ugly?
And my testicles gross? Well,
I don't like your face.

[Ben: Yeah! This is one us studly guys can really relate to. Mine drag on the floor and I'm darn proud of it - what's it to you?]

We bucks "scent mark" things:
We just pee on them, see? Now
Don't you smell better?

[Coffee: Everything smells better with pee!

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