Now, come to think of it, my ferrets did bite on occasion but love bites. Louisal used to bite my boyfriend on the nose because she was jealous of him, which cracked me up.
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From: Larry C. Lyons
To: CF-Community
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 12:57 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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