It is speculated that the rat took a wrong turn at Venus and landed on Mars rather than the nutritionally rich Moon, which we all know is made of green cheese.
In the 1950s there was children’s literary series called Space Cat by Ruthven Todd and Paul Galdone. These were the books that got the kiddos of my generation hooked on science fiction. Space Cat is about the adventures of a feline named Flyball. In the first book (1952) the cat wanders onto a military base that was preparing to send a rocket to the moon. Curiosity didn’t kill the cat but it accidentally bought him a round-trip ticket aboard a test flight. Flyball handles everything so well, the military fits Flyball with a space suit and sends him to the moon with his new buddy, astronaut Captain Fred Stone.
Eventually Flyball and Captain Stone land on the Red Planet. Flyball meets a cute Martian meower, a red tabby named Moofa whose stripes run lengthwise. In 1957 when Space Cat Meets Mars, came out, who would that thought there would be such a critical need for cats on Mars?
Thanks to the Mars rover Curiosity, we now know why the military worked so hard to send Flyball to the Red Planet. A photo taken from the mast camera on Sept. 28, 2012 clearly shows (if you’ve ingested enough mind-altering liquid, that is) a rat hiding among a cluster of rocks labeled “Rocknest” on the orange, rock-strewn Martian surface. One UFO blogger pointed out the lighter upper and lower eyelids, as well as a nose, cheeks, ears, from leg and tummy.
One must wonder if there are alien rodents on Mars, did they take a wrong turn on their way to the moon, which, as we all know, is made of cheese? So now dear friends, you know why in the 1950s America conspired to send a mouser to the fourth rock from the sun: to prevent a pan galactic rodent infestation or the spreading of Red Planet Plague. Just in case the little rock rat ever escapes to Earth, keep your kitties close and your rat traps closer.
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