Charlie Bell wrote:
On 01/08/2006, at 8:45 AM, Brother John wrote:
As a child that raised white mice and rats as much as I did snakes, I
can attest that white rats are much, much better pets than white mice.
Mice bite and their urine stinks something awful. Neither is true of
white rats. Rats actually make very nice pets, much better pets than
hamsters of gerbils. Of course, that is just my person opinion. But it
is based on personal experience.
At last, some common ground. (Of course, you were probably raising
rodents to feed to snakes, but I'll forgive you...).
I never had white rats, I had a pair of dark chocolate brown rats with
white bellies. The breed is "Black Berkshire", and they were _Rattus
norvegicus_, or the Common Brown or Norway Rat (the most common pet rat,
although a few people do breed Black Rats (_Rattus rattus_).
Rats are *great* pets. Really social, and really smart.
I have a friend with hairless rats. Those sound like fun! (And being
furry can be a liability around here for a good chunk of the year.)
Julia
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