Pet Forum / Mammals / Rats / September 2004

What does it mean when a you're playing with your rattie during out-time,
and after 5 or 10 minutes she suddenly starts nibbling at your fingers over
and over?  Is it...
1) I'm hungry where are the treats?

Rats are being trained to find victims buried in rubble from earthquakes &
bomb blasts.
The research has been funded by the Pentagon. Rats can get into places
search dogs cannot fit. The rats are fitted with tiny radio packs which

This story first hit the news a couple years ago, but as the project
continues, it is again getting coverage, as in this Reuter's news item:
<http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=ourWorldNews&storyID=6341009>
The article includes a picture of Jerry the Gambian Giant Rat, in ...

I came across this article today about rats in Kyrgyzstan that evolved
from albino lab rats and wild rats to make a breed of 'super rat' that
actually thrives on poison.
[URL should be on one line]

Morning All,
I am finding myself in the same predicament as I have found myself in so
many situations with my past babies and I hate it everytime, and I'll never
get used to doing it.

"That $2 million study, conducted by the US National Toxicology Programme,
concluded that mice and rats administered high doses of THC over long
periods had greater protection against malignant tumours than untreated
controls."

I have a rat that's about a year and two months old.  We got him just after
he was weaned and he's always had a deformed toe.  Not really deformed, but
slightly turned under the others and useless.  A couple months ago we
noticed that the toe was more turned under and inflamed and ...

Some people have asked me what I have decided to do about spaying Maggie
and/or neutering the boys.
I live in a remote area, and there is a local vet here, but I don't like her
at all, and I believe she has a strong prejudice against rodents.  She may

Well I am sorry I havent posted in a while we had a hurricain hit us and I
had no power for a week and a half and then no phone for a while after that,
But in the mix of it all I got 2 new babies.. There BLUE and sooo cute. I
send pics directly to the group but no one looks at them ...

My two young boys don't mark anything yet, and Hailey my older female
doesn't either.  But Maggie, my 1-year old hairless girl is a marking
maniac.  She marks everything, especially me, over and over.  Is this a
behavior only done in new surroundings, when they're nervous, or is it ...

I've had these pics up on a couple of forums for a bit, and thought I'd
throw them on Webshots. It is a sequence (should be viewed in sequence) of
pics demonstrating how difficult if not disastrous  it can be to use the
timer on a camera for a staged shot of you and your rats. I ...

http://community.webshots.com/user/old_geezer
Geezer

Well my Martins 695 FINALLY arrived after a 7 week back order.  The cage is
huge - the boys are freaking out with all the space (2 balconies and 2 full
floors).  Unfortunately I am an idiot and attached the front panel upside
down, so that door #1 opens up right on a ramp and door ...

I was wondering if I could get some opinions on a small sore that our
2-1/2-year-old guy has on his side.  
See Cocoa's "Owie" album:
http://community.webshots.com/user/wabewawa

this is just a test to see if my system is still ok