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Edited on Mon Feb-09-04 04:11 PM by AlienGirl
Dogs are okay, cats are okay...but RATS are the coolest.
Rats are loyal and recognize their people, even after long absences. They're very social and smart and have been proven to laugh and to dream. Rats are great survivors and optimists. They have a sense of numbers and can be taught to count.
In experiments, rats will go without food if pressing a lever to get food results in another creature receiving an electric shock. (The other creature doesn't even have to be a rat.) They'll push buttons to help other rats, even rats they don't know, get from a suspended platform down to the floor. Mama rats will raise other babies even babies of other species, and will walk across electrified floors to retrieve lost babies--whether the babies are rats, kittens, or even chicks. (Rats have an innate concept of "baby-ness"!)
Rats are incredible survivors and quickly learn to avoid poisons and spring traps.
Rats learn their names, to come when called, and a bunch of different words. Rats can be taught to find landmines and run computer network wires through walls. They're clean and will use a litterbox--they like to keep their environment nice.
Smart, social, altruistic, friendly, and envivronmentally conscious--rats are awesome!
Tucker
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