Tara Bleu's loves her pet rats

People increasingly intrigued with unusual animals as pets.

Tara Bleu's mother bought her a cage and told her she could decide what to put in it.

She quickly made her choice at the pet store.

"The first time I held a rat, I fell in love with them because I thought they were so cute," 13-year-old Bleu said.

She chose her first rat, Angel, after the furry creature came right up to her when she put her nose up to the cage.

Bleu now has three rats, Velvet, Smokey and Hannah, and has even inspired her brothers to get rats.

"My mom loves my rats, too," Bleu said of her mom, Linda Bleu.

...I don't think rats are that unusual...