In the music video for the song, he sings to a rat named Ben.

A rat named Henbit came running to the hilltop.

He made a rat named Skullgor Captain of it.

A girl from the circus decides to take care of him, and he befriends a rat named Jack.

And a rat named Lester lusts after a piece of pastrami.

He once had a rat named Löthar but it died.

A rat named Graypatch says that I should be used to make my father obey.

A rat named Stumpclaw strained his eyes northward up the path.

As the novel begins, a clan of many dragons receives word from a rat named Rosa that humans are going to flood their valley.

"I'm going out to find a rat named Creff!"