07-28-2023, 12:54 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-02-2023, 08:48 AM by lemonoppy. Edited 1 time in total.)
This is the story of how a first round exit in the ISFL Thunderdome created a cult of personality that may just transcend the event itself. This is the story of how Rat Mommy divided a league. Since my return to the league, I’ve tried to get to know some of the newer users as well as reconnect with the people that I’ve known for the past three years. So when toofpete and Rake announced that they would be having a pet bracket as part of their latest podcast episode, I knew that I needed to participate. Here’s the thing, though, I didn’t know which of my many pets I should submit my wife is an animal lover, and over the years we’ve had several pets.
Currently we have three cats, two dogs, a turtle and his pet fish, and my daughter’s gecko. Of all of our pets, we have three hairless animals. Two of our cats are sphinxes and we also have a hairless pug so I had to make a difficult choice. Do I choose one of my hairless cats or my wife’s dog that she’s had for a decade? My wife would tell you I made the wrong choice and perhaps some of the leagues users would agree with her. How do you even come up with a hairless pug? The truth is we don’t exactly know we know for sure he’s at least half pug but it’s the other half that’s hard to determine, he was a rescue so it’s not like he has papers that detail his breed. Our guess is either Chinese crested, which is probably most likely since they’re ugly as sin he may also be a Mexican hairless.
Ultimately, I made the decision to pick one of our sphinx cats. We got them only recently because it’s been my wife’s dream to have a sphinx. They are notoriously expensive and so we thought we may never get one but my wife’s sister knew someone who needed to rehome to sphinx cats and that’s how we came upon Bandit and his mother. Her name is Princess but she bears such a striking resemblance to a rat that I’ve called her Rat Mommy enough that she answers to it more than her own name.
Rat Mommy is from Russia and she was a breeder. We were told that she is a perfect specimen with her triangular head and her rotund belly. She also has a rat tail. Her appearance has made her popular across the ISFL. She even has her own sticker in the Kansas City Coyotes’ locker room. People can’t decide if they love her or are repulsed by her and I think some would say that they are both. She has become such a cult of personality that I think she may be more well-known and I am at this point. If I were to say one bad thing about Rat Mommy, it’s that she doesn’t cover her poops and they smell very bad. Cat lovers will agree that by default cat poop smells very bad and I’m telling you, her smells worse. To me, Rat Mommy is perfect and my ISFL team must understand that we are a package deal. She may become the team’s unofficial mascot.
It is my firm belief that she was robbed in the Thunderdome pet bracket. Ask anyone, they’ll tell you; Rat Mommy is a winner. One day you’ll ask yourself if you can remember ISFL life before Rat Mommy.
You’ll have to forgive me in advance, but I don’t plan on stopping Rat Mommy posts across the league servers.
We all kneel before Rat Mommy.
Currently we have three cats, two dogs, a turtle and his pet fish, and my daughter’s gecko. Of all of our pets, we have three hairless animals. Two of our cats are sphinxes and we also have a hairless pug so I had to make a difficult choice. Do I choose one of my hairless cats or my wife’s dog that she’s had for a decade? My wife would tell you I made the wrong choice and perhaps some of the leagues users would agree with her. How do you even come up with a hairless pug? The truth is we don’t exactly know we know for sure he’s at least half pug but it’s the other half that’s hard to determine, he was a rescue so it’s not like he has papers that detail his breed. Our guess is either Chinese crested, which is probably most likely since they’re ugly as sin he may also be a Mexican hairless.
Ultimately, I made the decision to pick one of our sphinx cats. We got them only recently because it’s been my wife’s dream to have a sphinx. They are notoriously expensive and so we thought we may never get one but my wife’s sister knew someone who needed to rehome to sphinx cats and that’s how we came upon Bandit and his mother. Her name is Princess but she bears such a striking resemblance to a rat that I’ve called her Rat Mommy enough that she answers to it more than her own name.
Rat Mommy is from Russia and she was a breeder. We were told that she is a perfect specimen with her triangular head and her rotund belly. She also has a rat tail. Her appearance has made her popular across the ISFL. She even has her own sticker in the Kansas City Coyotes’ locker room. People can’t decide if they love her or are repulsed by her and I think some would say that they are both. She has become such a cult of personality that I think she may be more well-known and I am at this point. If I were to say one bad thing about Rat Mommy, it’s that she doesn’t cover her poops and they smell very bad. Cat lovers will agree that by default cat poop smells very bad and I’m telling you, her smells worse. To me, Rat Mommy is perfect and my ISFL team must understand that we are a package deal. She may become the team’s unofficial mascot.
It is my firm belief that she was robbed in the Thunderdome pet bracket. Ask anyone, they’ll tell you; Rat Mommy is a winner. One day you’ll ask yourself if you can remember ISFL life before Rat Mommy.
You’ll have to forgive me in advance, but I don’t plan on stopping Rat Mommy posts across the league servers.
We all kneel before Rat Mommy.