...you grind your teeth when happy.
...you think it's perfectly fine to have a rat eat off your plate.
...you start looking at random stuff on sale thinking "oh this will make a nice hammock/ladder/etc for my rats!"
...you eat yogies.
...you power groom your friends.
...you start actually assuming that other people enjoy hearing about their litter training/cute look/ etc as much as you do.
...you just drop a peice of food you dont like that someone gives you, and look at them like "huh?"
...you start shredding toilet paper/newspaper when you're bored.
...you start to dread bathing.
...you start thinking people with abnormally big ears are too cute for words (like Dumbo rats)!
...you see a wild rat and go "awwwww" cos you think of your rats at home.
...you go to the pet shop "just to get some rat food" and walk out with what could've been snake food.
...you get detention in school for using the (true) excuse, "The rats ate my homework!"
...you stroke your friends' hair.
...you spend a whole heap of time explaining madly to people why rats are wonderful pets even when they only asked what pet you have.
... you accost people in petshops that you suspect of having rats and give them the 3min rat info speech while giving them your web addy.
...you have cage madness: every square thing with bars you look at thinking "Now if i had a soldering iron........."
...you walk around shops looking for rat paraphinalia and then complain to shop assistants that they dont have any....as if NORMAL people would buy stuffed fluffy rats from CNA.
...you make up lists like these for your rat website.