Thank you!
Really nice to hear you liked the game.
I've been doing my best to fix bugs as people ran into them up to the close of the polish period. (I thin I fixed the statue glitch a few minutes after reading it here...direction fix was supposed to be on and it was not, whoops!)
The game probably has more moving parts, so to speak, than anything I've worked on before, and having it done in a week meant testing wasn't comprehensive, so I was pretty sure there'd be a few noticeable bugs. Nice to know my efforts to fix them up are appreciated though! I've hopefully gotten rid of anything that majorly impacts gameplay.
As far as the rat puzzle....
..maybe you just need to find something the rat likes? :)