[jscott991]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dr Kain

In the original cartoon Yoshi was somehow turned into a rat. In the original comics and every other iteration since (at least, as far as I know), Splinter was Yoshi's pet rat.

Yoshi is never a full-on rat in the old cartoon. In the 1987 show, he is a human in the sewers who takes care of four baby turtles. They are then all mutated by the pink (later green) mutagen, and he becomes a rat/man hybrid.