I had a cat named Antoine who loved to watch our pet rats (when we had rats). When we had a litter of little baby rats, he was especially attentive. He would sit and watch them for hours. They were still pink and had their eyes closed...

One day I heard Antoine's "tattle" meow (he was always the one to let us know that another cat had done something wrong, like pulling the screen out and escaping [our cats are all indoor]) coming from the room with the rats. I went in to investigate and I saw something horrible.

Antoine was sitting above a little pink thing on the carpet. Oh god, I thought, he's killed one of the babies! He sniffed it and meowed again. I went over, not really looking forward to cleaning up dead baby....

...but it wasn't dead. Not even hurt. It had apparently fallen out of the cage and Antoine was very upset about it! I put it back in with its mom and Antoine took up his spot next to the cage and went back to watching 'his' rats. He used to put his nose right up to the wires of the cage, and the rats would come over and they'd touch noses, sniffing each other. He never once batted at the cage. I think he loved them.

Sadly, Antoine ran away the day before we moved from Arizona to Virginia. We lived in a fairly enclosed apartment complex, and I told all of the neighbors, so I think there is a good chance that someone took him in, but we miss him a lot :(