Pet Forum / Mammals / Rats / November 2006

Thanks for showing the photo's, such sweeties. Is Bella really
hairless? It looks like she has some fur on her. I haven't seen any
hairless rats in real life. Feel like knitting them little sweaters ;)

Dewi

Hi,

I saw your original post where you mention Google Groups and thought you
might find the following info useful, since as with many Google Groups
users you're under a few misapprehensions - a mistake I think Google can
be held accountable for since they do little to correctly inform users
as they seem happy to let them think all of this useful information
exists courtesy of Google. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

This isn't a Google Group, it's a Newsgroup existing within Usenet :)

Google does maintain a number of its own groups, however it also acts as
a web based portal to the huge existing network known as Usenet. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

Usenet is in fact nearly thirty years old.

Regarding including photos, non-text files (such as photos) are known as
binaries. Most groups don't allow inclusion of binaries & if you try
you'll either find it impossible or the files will be stripped out long
before the posts get to most users. Best to post links as you have done.

You might find if you download & install a client such as Thunderbird
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/ that it will give you access
to the text based newsgroups on Usenet far more easily than the web
based Google Groups. Thunderbird is both an email & news client. If you
must, you could also use Outlook Express.

There are many news clients available if you prefer to try a few. You'll
also need permission to post to & download from an nntp server, which
deals with the traffic on Usenet; your ISP very likely provides such a
service & you'd just need the server name from them. Alternatively,
others here can suggest possible servers, most making some modest charge
for their use; a few are still free. Generally you don't need to worry
about this unless you want access to binary newsgroups (some groups
exist only to carry pictures, music, videos & so on).

HTH,

LOVE your babies. I have 10 with 4 of them being hairless kids. I do love my
little hairless ones, so...and the furry ones, too, giggle.

Thanks for sharing,
Lynn kitty
hi everyone :)

i suppose i can paste links to some pictures of my rats just as easily,
so here are a few of my babies.
if there is a way to embed photos in code or whatever, please let me
know.

anyway, here is the family:

Bella, one of my beautiful female hairless rats:
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f106/amytrip/bella01.jpg

And Bella's companion is affectionate Foebe:
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f106/amytrip/foebe2.jpg

Violet, another of my female hairless rats, she is rather shy:
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f106/amytrip/Violet.jpg

And Violet's sweet companion, Vera Lynn:
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f106/amytrip/VeraLynn.jpg

Millie, a hairless beauty from the very first pair of rats that I
adopted:
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f106/amytrip/millie.jpg

And Millie's gorgeous hairless companion, Jane:
http://usera.imagecave.com/amytrip/janecorn.jpg

One of my beautiful boys, Hero:
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f106/amytrip/hero.jpg

And his friendly brother, Atomic:
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f106/amytrip/atomic.jpg

I will post photos of Led and Zep when I upload some.
They have only been here a short while.
They are gorgeous furry females, white and brown fur.
(Sorry I am not good with fur colours breeds and varities.)

Awwww, they are all gorgeous!  Unfortunately I can't view the pic of Jane,
I'm being told 'file not found', but I'm sure she's a little beauty like the
rest!

Tracey

They are all so gorgeous!!
It's best to keep pics on a site like photobucket. Many people are
viewing this list through their email program as it is really a
newsgroup. Many newsgroup servers won't allow picture files to go
through. So showing them through links are much better, we can all enjoy
them. :)