Shower Rat Is Out There Proving Rats Are Adorable

Considering the way we all lose our collective shit when we see a rat in the wild, you’d think they’d be less adorable, right? Well, you’d be wrong, because you haven’t seen this little guy take a shower.

That’s some cute shit right there. Look at how he scrubs himself! Who’s a good little carrier of the black death? You are, yes you are! It’s no wonder Hilary Duff has pet rats.

That video originated on Reddit, but it’s taken social media by storm.

Everyone: SHOWER RAT!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Some asshole rat scientist: It’s doing that because it’s dying.

— popular comedy account “the pixelated boat” (@pixelatedboat) January 29, 2018

everyone with "rts are not endorsements" better not be retweeting rat taking a shower like a person. u can't watch that little rat scrubbing his little rat armpits without endorsing it

— darcie wilder (@333333333433333) January 28, 2018

sorry I was late for work/ didn’t return your text/ became a shut in I was watching that rat take a shower

— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) January 29, 2018

Why is this rat taking a shower like a regular person? 😫😂😂 pic.twitter.com/bncDiYRQyU

— Kevín (@KevOnStage) January 28, 2018

Those were all funny. Some people decided to go the other way and make shower rat political. Those were also funny, but in a “We’re laughing at you because your joke is bad and you should feel bad” kind of way.

Shower rat is better at taking care of himself than Steve Bannon

— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) January 29, 2018

Even Rats Shower after stench of corruption from Obama Admin DOJ & FBI 😡😡😡😡
Tues at State of Union —#TrumpReadtheMemo https://t.co/QEKoB9eycb

— Tom Moore (@junogsp5) January 28, 2018

Yeah, those are things that happened.

So someone was going to ruin the fun, right? Surprise, surprise, it’s Gizmodo. You know, when they bought Gawker’s assets and verticals, I was hoping that they’d improve them, not let Gawker just drag their entire brand down into the gutter with them.

“The movements are pretty strange,” Tuomas Aivelo, researcher in Urban Rat biology at the University of Helsinki in Finland told Gizmodo. “A rat wouldn’t do that unless there’s something it really wants to get rid of. I think it’s soapy all over. That’s probably a problem for the rat. It just wants to get rid of the soap.”

Hey, Pixelated Boat was right, what a shock. Thanks for making the world a little less magical, Gizmodo, can you just go back to writing about how everyone who takes their coffee black is racist or whatever now?