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13 Oct 2008, 9:49 am

slowmutant wrote:

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i love rats!! ! my previous rats were called "rizzo" and "little stephen pearcy II" (after the muppets rat and the lead singer of the band RATT). i desperately want to adopt a rat again. they're so much more loving and intelligent than people give them credit. :wink:

There's also vermin and carriers of deadly plague.

Actually it was the fleas on their backs that caused the plague..

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13 Oct 2008, 9:57 am

Synth wrote:

slowmutant wrote:

daysleeper wrote:

There's also vermin and carriers of deadly plague.

Actually it was the fleas on their backs that caused the plague..

And it was not the common sewer rat (brown rat) that was the vector of the Great Plague/Black death, but the black rat which is a climing rat from tropical Asia.

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13 Oct 2008, 10:04 am

I think rodents are very cute. Anybody else think Seals and Otters look like rodents?

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13 Oct 2008, 10:10 am

Me, too.

How do you post a picture here? Does "Paintbrush" work?

"Baby Mouse" thread
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp1767437.html#1767437

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13 Oct 2008, 10:16 am

Many people mistakenly assume that otter are in the rodent family with they are in the same family as weasels and badgers.

A sea lion and seal head look similar to giant otter heads.

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13 Oct 2008, 10:20 am

daysleeper wrote:

slowmutant wrote:

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There's also vermin and carriers of deadly plague.

so your answer is "no"? great.

No, but a clean rat is like a sober Irishman ... hard to come by.

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13 Oct 2008, 10:23 am

Synth wrote:

slowmutant wrote:

daysleeper wrote:

There's also vermin and carriers of deadly plague.

Actually it was the fleas on their backs that caused the plague..

Right, the rats carried the fleas, thus carrying the plague.

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13 Oct 2008, 10:26 am

Two mice, minus the plague.

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13 Oct 2008, 10:46 am

Ah, I don't have anything against rats themselves. They don't choose to be vermin and carriers of plague. I like them a lot better than cockroaches, who are REAL vermin. At least with rats, we share a common mammalian profile, but insects are impossible for a soft-bodied, warm blooded, mother-suckled creature to relate to.

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13 Oct 2008, 11:06 am

My six year old son has two rats....Speedy and Snowy. Rats are very good pets. My older son had a rat (Roger) when he was a teenager...he took him everywhere with him. Roger lived to be nearly 5 years old which is very old for a rat....he was so old he had lost most of his fur.

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13 Oct 2008, 11:54 am

I like rodents. I don't like seeing them in the subway tracks or on the street or anything, 'cause they might have diseases, but I like tame rodents. And squirrels. I wouldn't want to go near one, but they're cute and seeing them from afar is good.

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13 Oct 2008, 12:32 pm

With the exception of cats anything under 15 lbs. should be exterminated as pests.

BTW- for you literals- that was a joke. Just because I don't like pretty much anything smaller than a cat doesn't mean they don't make good pets. I guess.....