I never heard of the Tooth Rat either and I must say I feel a bit cheated, being a child who was quite taken with rodents.

My uncle made up a story about a rat at the dump in the town I lived in from birth to age 4. Every time I outgrew something (bottles, cloth diapers, etc) we had to take it to the dump and give it to Freddy the Rat who would find his own use for it. But that was just my crazy uncle...the same man who told me that cows on the left side of the road give white milk and cows on the right side give chocolate milk.