Pets in dorms could probably be its own thread but...one summer and this was in Tucson Arizona -- my roommate saved a white rat from a lab. A large white rat. His name was Sam. He liked Oreos. It wasn't a problem until she feel "in love" didn't come back to the room for days at a time.

A large white rat needs his cage cleaned REGULARLY -- especially in that kind of summer heat (dorms were swamp cooled not air conditioned.)

I was not amused -- between the smell of everything in the room and the resulting increase in the chance of getting "caught" with an animal in the dorm.

Funny -- I don't remember how the story ended. It was a few (alright quite a few) years ago