Jeff
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From: Larry C. Lyons
To: CF-Community
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: New Pet
I spent 3 semesters as a senior working as the assitant to the learning
theory lab course. I ended up taking care of about 100 lab rats. Never
again. I still have the scars where one bit my finger.
If you want cute, go for a ferret, not an ugly rodent.
larry
At 12:54 PM 12/19/2003, you wrote:
>When I was in college, I took Intro to Psych, which included various
>labs. For the neuropsych part, we had to run rats through a water maze.
> I was the only guy in a group of very traditionally girlish ladies, so
>I ended up as Rat wRangler. This is when I discovered that not only are
>rats cool, but they have very distinct personalities.
>
>Fortunately (in my opinion) the next lab paired me with a female friend
>who liked the rats as much as I did, so I ended up with fewer scratches,
>got to participate in parts of the experiment not involving direct
>contact with the rats, and still got to pet ours.
>
>My favorite lab rat story, though, happened after a long weekend. I was
>walking down the sidewalk with a friend and we came across some
>animal-testing protest chalkings. One said that the rats hadn't been
>fed or watered all weekend. My friend got pretty pissed. I told her I
>was sure it wasn't true. She replied, "Of course not! I'm the one who
>fed them!"
>
>White lab rats are so cool.....
>Great. Now I'm thinking about acquiring a pet.
>
>--benD
>
>BethF wrote:
>
> > My very first pet was a white lab rat, stolen from the psych lab at
> > Drexel University when I was six. He was an amazing little friend once
> > he got over being scared.
> >
>
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