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Pet Forum / Mammals / Rats / February 2008Glue-sniffers
I've just discovered why the rats were so eager to squeeze their way into the shallow central drawer of the desk; it turns out there was a tube of UHU glue in there. By the time I caught them there was already a tooth-sized hole in the side of the time, and fumes oozing everywhere... even when I took it away, they kept coming back to that spot and apparently inhaling deeply... I suppose that explains what happened back in the other drawer, when I found a dried-out empty tube with stuff stuck together all over the place -- I assumed the lid had come off at some point!  SignatureIgenlode Visit the Ivory Tower http://ivory.150m.com/Tower/ Those who falter and those who fall must pay the price... > I've just discovered why the rats were so eager to squeeze their way > into the shallow central drawer of the desk; it turns out there was a > tube of UHU glue in there. By the time I caught them there was already a > tooth-sized hole in the side of the time, and fumes oozing everywhere... > even when I took it away, they kept coming back to that spot and > apparently inhaling deeply... ahhh, you have some of them asbo rats i've heard about, make sure they can't find your car keys or they'll be off joyriding next :) > I've just discovered why the rats were so eager to squeeze their way > into the shallow central drawer of the desk; it turns out there was a [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > found a dried-out empty tube with stuff stuck together all over the > place -- I assumed the lid had come off at some point! All rats seem to go nuts for tobacco of any kind ("Ooh, look! Give give give!"), and I've found prescription psychotropic medicines nibbled at, before I found out and decided I'd better keep them somewhere non-rat- accessible. They also seem to want to seek out and devour alcohol and (ahem) cannabis, which of course belonged to aa friend of mine who was visiting, which I had no idea at all they had, of course :-) They're just like people in this regard, I think - love drugs,love altered consciousness - but have no knowledge of the consequences, sadly :-( But I guess that's part of the reason why they're so useful in research. Rats have the same social structure as we have, are hunter-gatherers like us (or scavengers, as the anthropocentric prefer to say), which I reckon explains why behaviourally and psychologically they're so similar to us. Rosemary >> I've just discovered why the rats were so eager to squeeze their way >> into the shallow central drawer of the desk; it turns out there was a [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Rosemary Makes me think of that Amy Winehouse song,"Rehab",: They tried to make me go to rehab I said no, no, no. LOL! S.O.S. SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com This explains why they were going nuts to get to a rum ball (which contained a bottle of rum) I recon they would have killed each other for it if I didn't intervene. >> I've just discovered why the rats were so eager to squeeze their way >> into the shallow central drawer of the desk; it turns out there was a [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Rosemary This is really really funny to me!!!! Little trouble makers. > I've just discovered why the rats were so eager to squeeze their way > into the shallow central drawer of the desk; it turns out there was a [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > found a dried-out empty tube with stuff stuck together all over the > place -- I assumed the lid had come off at some point! |
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