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Superconsndar posted:It's freaking awesome. By the end of the week, when it was time to clean the cage, I could only detect the absolute faintest smell and only if my face was practically touching the cage. Love ittttt. I had my wife stop and get some earlier this week and it seems to be helping, I haven't cleaned every cage yet so I'm sure most of what I'm still smelling is the uncleaned couple of cages. I don't like to clean the cages with newborns if I can help it.
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Back when I was a teenager a friend of mine had a BIG rat I mean BIG. This baby could lay cuddled on my arm and his head would rest on my palm and he was as long as my forearm AT LEAST not counting his tail, I'm gonna say he weighed 3 maybe 4 pounds, he was WAY bigger than any rat I've -ever- seen, his body was the size of a football maybe even bigger. She called him a Belgian wharf rat, but all I know is he was at least twice as big as any rat I've ever seen and I see a lot of rats. Any ideas? Just a "healthy boy"? or is there some other type of rats out there you just never see? Her dad worked for a shady portion of the government and always was off in strange countries doing things he couldn't talk about and he brought this back after an assignment, not sure where.
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Jun 30, 2010 03:56
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Big Bug Hug posted:Thats funny. What color was it? Maybe it had been bred from wild rats (sometimes called Wharf rats?) Giant rats would be pretty cool >.> It was just rat colored, dark brown, seems like it had some greyish markings, more like speckles not splotches. Mighta had some white on the belly (this was 20 years ago). It was the most lethargic lazy thing I ever saw, it'd eat, and sleep, that was about it, when you held it it'd hardly move, kinda slowly climb up on your shoulder maybe but the most laid back animal ever. But as an avid herpetologist, I've seen LOTS of rats, and since my biggest current snake is an 8 foot boa, I buy and actively seek out the largest rats I can get my hands on (I dread using bunnies as feeders). The biggest "jumbo" rat I've ever found is at least half the size this monster was. New topic: I used leftover grains from brewing beer this weekend, it was roughly 2 pounds of dark roasted barley malt (Imperial Stout yeah), I added whole wheat flour, about 4 eggs, some leftover eggdrop and chicken noodle soup (instead of water or milk cause I'm out of milk and I had some leftover soup that needed using up), then I baked it. Anything likely to hurt a rat in this mix? If so my dogs will love it too, or my goats. Wonder if my turtle would eat it (I'm kidding). OH yeah I threw the eggs in whole, shells and all, here's a picture for fun: 
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Jun 30, 2010 05:23
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Superconsndar posted:wild color is called agouti So is there a rat that gets that damned big? And is Chong (of Cheech and Chong) level mellow? Cause I wanted this rat BAD he was cool as hell. If I can find out what he (maybe) was I'll start searching for one. He'll live like a king trust me, no boas in his future.
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Jun 30, 2010 05:54
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EVG posted:Maybe it was a gambian pouched rat? Different species, but looks pretty much exactly like a pet rat made huge. That this chick called it a "belgian wharf rat" but it really was a "gambian pouched rat" would not surprise me ONE BIT. quote:In other news, found the coolest water bottle (also something that the crazy rat lady who told me about Bi-Odor had). In other news, if it had a straight, not slanted watering tube, I'd get a few. I have these: http://www.bigappleherp.com/Big-Apple-Rodent-Cages with the 500ml bottles per cage.
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Jun 30, 2010 06:16
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Amiss posted:Well, that caps it-- someday, I am going to get a giant pouched rat, and I am going to name it Beef. I have my mission now. I'm betting this is the rat she had, this was in the early 90s and her dad would have easily been able to bring such a thing home as part of his travels.
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Jun 30, 2010 16:49
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Superconsndar posted:training lures for the dogs What sort of training requires rats or mice? What kind of dogs?
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