02-08-2006, 10:54 AM
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02-08-2006, 11:07 AM
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Yay Scott! Actually they are really nice animals that if handled a lot when they are young are extremely sociable and very smart too. Mine can be handled but she's much more skittish. She was used to make babies and therefore wasn't handled a lot.
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02-08-2006, 11:14 AM
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Let's examine it's cuteness factor critically: Small? Yes. Furry? Yes. Playful? Yes. Affectionate? Yes. Possessed of charming natural behaviors? Yes. Easily anthropomorphisized? Yes. Of course, it's possible that I may have an imperfect idea of what constitutes "cute". Earlier this week I was described quite seriously as "a big macho guy" (a statement that caused me to laugh so hard I almost did an impromtu spit-take), so it seems I can be remarkably clueless about a lot of things from time to time.
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02-08-2006, 01:41 PM
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Rats are really really really cute! They have tiny little hands and they grab and examine stuff curiously - like raccoons.
I saw some very cute mice at the pet store yesterday. There were about twenty little mouselings in a cage, and ALL of them were trying to run on the spinny wheel. Some were running inside of the wheel, some were running on top of the wheel. Once they'd get enough momentum going they'd all stop running and hold on tight as the wheel spun them around and around and upside down. They really loved that wheel. |
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02-08-2006, 01:45 PM
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merely human
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Yesterday I was doing errands and decided to go into Petco. They had a couple of ferrets for sale ($130 each) and the moment I got close to the glass they came right at me and squirmed for attention and sniffed at me. Then I visited the hamsters, most of whom were napping. There were two huge ones (forgot what they're called), the size of kittens.
 I miss having something warm and furry to cuddle.
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02-08-2006, 03:11 PM
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02-08-2006, 08:35 PM
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merely human
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Mira, has the doctor examined you yet? We need an update.
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02-09-2006, 12:01 AM
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Ale! And keep 'em coming!
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We used to have ten of those. Rats are cute. Ten Females, that is. One of them was acting half-wild, because she had been abandoned outside because some people think "They're rats, they can survive in the wild!" But they are not necessarily. Her name was "Hexe" - "Witch". - 
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02-09-2006, 12:15 AM
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My cat always looks like he's king of the world with no worldly concerns whatsoever. Then he sees something moving in the garden and he switches on stealthy hunter mode and turns into a psycho killer, then he comes back all relaxed and cute again. Gotta love cats
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02-09-2006, 12:21 AM
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02-09-2006, 07:50 AM
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I had gerbils once who had a litter of babies, and it was fun to watch them as they got bigger because they'd climb up onto the wheel... first one, and he was too small to make it go, and then another one would get on, and a third, and a fourth.... and FINALLY they were heavy enough and got the thing moving. Then mom hopped up there and started running and all the babies shot off in all directions, smacking into the sides of the aquarium.  Trep, don't buy a ferret. They're illegal in California. |
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02-09-2006, 09:34 AM
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On second thought, it makes sense. Although SJH might get a tad jealous. 
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..this makes me like hamsters only because it has no tail.
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02-09-2006, 11:55 AM
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I once had Degus. They were the cutest little furry things I'd had up to that point. They're kind of like chipmunks, except without the furry tail. I thought I had two females, but one day, that assumption (or misdiagnosis on the pet shop's part) went out the door as one of them gave birth to 6 little ones. I remember being extremely happy. They were amazing climbers (we had a pretty big cage for them, with alot of wooden branches and stuff they could climb on) and they could chew right through the one-inch thick polyester bottom of the cage
, so on more than one occasion I had to find all the little buggers all around the house. Then, on a freaky cold spring day, I woke up to find all of them dead in the garden (where we put their cage), and as it turns out, they weren't meant to be in this kind of climate at all (even though it was about 6 degrees celcius that night), as they were native to Chilli  By then they were illegal as pets in the Netherlands, as the pet shop owner told me (he didn't even bloody apologise! stupid ****). I cried entire rivers full of tears that day.
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02-09-2006, 02:42 PM
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Roar?
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I love my cats to death but they're losers, they really are. One in particular is a total dorkasaurus. It doesn't help that he has to wear an elizabethan collar or a sweater vest at all times to keep him from ripping his fur out (he has Trichotillomania). The other cat has a sweet tooth and gets into anything sugary or bready. He destroyed my birthday cake one year, my mother had hidden it in the basement and he found it and promptly popped it out of it's packaging and devoured a quarter of it. The jerk. |
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02-09-2006, 02:46 PM
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Pah. I used to have the most dopey cat who also managed to be alergic to fleas. She was wonderful
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02-09-2006, 05:51 PM
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LOL, Trichotillomania? Looked it up on Wikipedia but got the impression it was a human disorder, I guess cats can be obsessive compulsive as well
I love how my cat is the total opposite of shy. My friends' cats usually duck away under a couch or chair when there are visitors (though strangely enough, they all seem to like me ), but my cat is such a total attention whore he just has to be petted by everyone who comes to visit and starts purring immediately. Probably the most social cat I've ever come across.
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