Day 471:
No rock rats today, small lime gelatin slime cubes instead.
The thing is, at least the slime cubes are cute, in a non-mammal kind of way. The rock rats look more like rock lobsters and are definitely not cute.
Of course there’s no guarantee they’re even quasi-mammalian either.
For that matter, so far, only cows give milk. I might see different evidence of that phenomenon when I actually have two sheep. But the pigs don’t seem to give milk and they don’t nurse their young. (I’ve never seen a cow nurse here either but I’m trying not to dwell on what the milk is if it isn’t milk. It tastes like milk.)