The small, colorful ones? The poisonous ones?

[Well, not that anyone would accuse Rincewind or Chilton of wanting to eat James March -- not to their faces, anyway. Probably.

He nodded at Rincewind's depiction of Kitty, thinking it apt.]

Ah -- Is there something wrong with being a rat?

[Perhaps he shouldn't have said rat. There were other related creatures, more beloved breeds.]

I suppose you have a softer side. Otters are intelligent, you know, and rarely rabid.