Rat or other creature?

shirl · #31 (**permalink**) 09-10-2009, 03:47 PM

I think Gerald is rather sweet, I would like to hope the rat in our loft (again) is a male, not confident though!

Shirl

rangersarah2 · #32 (**permalink**) 22-10-2009, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by TheSeagull

As far as I know you can live with voles and they do not pose any threat, unlike the rat which carry disease, to humans.

Sorry Seagull, but I get really cross when people go on about rats and their diseases. Only around 40% of rats actually carry leptospirosis, and pretty much all wild animals carry diseases. Domestic ones do too - take the recent outbreaks at the petting farms, cats and pregnant women, and dogs causing blindness.

The reason people take so unkindly to rats is because society tells us that they are dirty and dangerous. They are exceptionally clean in their habits and are intelligent and loyal. If anyone wants to talk about things that are dirty and dangerous, perhaps they chould be talking about us.

By the way - eeyore, what a brilliant pic.

eeyore · #33 (**permalink**) 22-10-2009, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by rangersarah2

Sorry Seagull, but I get really cross when people go on about rats and their diseases. Only around 40% of rats actually carry leptospirosis, and pretty much all wild animals carry diseases. Domestic ones do too - take the recent outbreaks at the petting farms, cats and pregnant women, and dogs causing blindness.

The reason people take so unkindly to rats is because society tells us that they are dirty and dangerous. They are exceptionally clean in their habits and are intelligent and loyal. If anyone wants to talk about things that are dirty and dangerous, perhaps they chould be talking about us.

By the way - eeyore, what a brilliant pic.

cheers sarah - i take it from your coments that you keep pet ones , if so you may appreciate this one too

rangersarah2 · #34 (**permalink**) 22-10-2009, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by eeyore

cheers sarah - i take it from your coments that you keep pet ones , if so you may appreciate this one too

Hi Eeyore

Sadly I don't have pet rats. Would love one, but too worried about the cats. If I could take it to work I would, but my boss is a fervent rat hater and would take great pleasure in killing it. Yours (i assume) is gorgeous. Had a mouse as a kid that I carried around in my pocket.

eeyore · #35 (**permalink**) 23-10-2009, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by rangersarah2

Hi Eeyore

Sadly I don't have pet rats. Would love one, but too worried about the cats. If I could take it to work I would, but my boss is a fervent rat hater and would take great pleasure in killing it. Yours (i assume) is gorgeous. Had a mouse as a kid that I carried around in my pocket.

actually they are my sister's - that's harkness who is no longer with us i'm afraid - but she still has dibble, grub, spike, nemo, errol, fraggle, and cuthbert. you are right about their incompatibility with cats, i dont have them because they are equally incompatible with collie dogs

shirl · #36 (**permalink**) 23-10-2009, 02:46 PM

I had to relocate my pet fancy rat "Tish" with my niece, when I took on 2 springer spaniels from the rescue home. Tish was gorgeous, intelligent, clean and loved sitting in your dressing gown pocket for hours!

Shirl

eeyore · #37 (**permalink**) 23-10-2009, 02:56 PM

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yep i thought so - thats a big heap of rubble that was on my mums back lawn (while it was taking me two years to build the patio

) we had both woodmice and bank voles in residence and i photographed both - but i cant find the vole pics in the image library/Gallery - tho i'm sure i uploaded them at the time

back on topic (kind of) these are the vole pics i couldnt find before as refered to above