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.
Yes, my brother and I were raising rats to feed to our snakes. But we
really liked the rats. They didn't bite like the mice, hamsters and
gerbils we owned. And they were much cleaner than the mice. Mice simply
stink something awful. I think rats, if a person gets clean, healthy
well bred rats, make excellent pets. Obviously disease ridden sewer rats
aren't good to have around. But you could say the same thing about
diseased, uncared for cats and dogs too.
John W. Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"Since we are all children of the same Heavenly Father,
we really are all brothers and sisters." --Uncle Bob
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All my opinions are tentative pending further data. --JWR
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