Troja July 2000 - February 16th, 2002
Pandora July 2000 - April 11th, 2002

Troja and Pandora are sisters and came came to us in September 2000. They were bought by a school in my neighborhood. Pandora and Troja were part of an experiment. The pupil had to teach them to run thru a maze and operate the skinner box. He needed help and that's where I get in. My husband and I helped him with the experiments and stationed the little rats in our place. Needless to say they stayed with us after the successful experiment.

After Ophelia's, Arushia's, Calliope's and Ffiona's deaths Troja and Pandora met Ragnarok and Fenrir. Troja, always a healthy and speedy rat died totally unexpected of a heart attack shortly after she had turned 18 months of age. Pandora, despite suffering from respiratory infections, lived to meet Shrek before her condition worsened and we decided to euthanize her.

Troja and Pandora, we miss you.

Troja's quirks:

With three albinos in the group, Troja got food-color-coded red.
Very quicktempered. You gotta watch your fingers around her.
The live fast, die young mentality. Speedy Gonzalez times three.
Not afraid of Arushia and that's saying something.
Fast lerner. She did that skinnerbox thing lefthanded.

 

Pandora's quirks:

Dubbed DoiDoi. My beloved DoiDoi.
Very centered on me. Favorite place: sitting on my shoulder, hiding in my hair, close to my neck.
Color-coded a docile blue which really suited Pandora.

Got almost 1.5 times as big as her sister Pandora.

Had an absolutely delicious smell and cuddly soft fur.
Nutrical-Addict
Took a really big chunk of my heart with her when she died.