Could be worse. He could be a bassett hound called Flash. Shades of bad 80's TV programmes.....

My brother's mate lives in London and went to the local KFCesque shop for a takeaway meal. After examining the bone that he found and deciding it probably wasn't chicken, he, being a good vet student took it along to the lab and determined what it actually was - cat.
Scarily, he still eats there!

I don't generally do dogs - have had too many experiences of small yappy things (the dogs opposite are let out at 6.30 am and bark. All day.) I have a belief that the only real dogs are those that can put their front paws on your shoulders whilst still touching the floor. Everything else is glorified rat...



I drink to drown my sorrows. Unfortunately they've learnt how to swim.

...I think this comment is very offensive towards rats.



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I agree. I rather like domestic rats; I have a friend who keeps them. Small, yappy dogs, on the other hand, are pointless. If you want a pet the size of a cat, why not get a cat ? You don't have to take it for walks every day.

I agree. I rather like domestic rats; I have a friend who keeps them. Small, yappy dogs, on the other hand, are pointless. If you want a pet the size of a cat, why not get a cat ? You don't have to take it for walks every day, for one thing.

Oh, yes, domestic rats are really cute, and quite intelligent too. I don't normally go for little rodenty things, but I like rabbits and I like rats.

I earned considerable Brownie points with some of the local kids for liking the rat one of them brought round to the door, rather than going "eeeew!". Just as well kids don't normally keep pet toads, isn't it?

Our household is currently sans pets, I have two young boys and I feel that the mess and smell wouldn't be good for an animal.

I like domestic rats - I used to have mice (er, in a cage, not just running about in the kitchen...), and they're remarkably intelligent too. And cute.



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Do something pretty while you can...

Hamsters. Stink, but a very good introduction to stock breeding and the laws of genetics. They have so many offspring you can deduce laws of heredity in a year. Getting homes for the offspring is the hardest part. They can breed almost before you can sex them (was it 14 or 16 days - I forget). Hold an infant hamster between thumb and forefinger, and they cannot help but wee.

Two females in the same cage, death no save. Two males, um, sorry to get in your way, old chap. Won't speak of the other permutations ---

Never give then a jam jar for a latrine - I read of the idea, and practise showed it to be dreadful. They will use the thing, but either they fall in or it rolls with them in it. Euw --

Re the breeding of hamsters _
All of the pet hamsters on this entire world are descended from just one single litter (or might that even have been "one pregnant female"?) which somebody chanced to find.

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"God rot Botchkamos Istochnik!"

So I've heard, and I can well believe it.

Two females in the same cage - death no save : Dave, you're giving your age away there !

ya, how many of us actually got that reference...


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everyone break out your d20 and roll to see who gets the dead hamsters' items....

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Is anybody searching the sides of the cage for secret doors? :-)

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I'm not sure I'd like the hamsters items!

I took the matter seriously and tried to provide the female with supplements during pregnancy; mostly powdered milk. By the time she had had two litters ( 9 and 7 - if you can manage to have names for as many as that you're doing well) she looked like a four-legged brick. But Hammy still fancied her ---

...well if hamsters' work the same way as rats do, aesthetics are not really important for the female hamster/rat to be fancied by her buck.

I had a pack of 6 rat bucks (at the same time, all in all there were 8) and they didn't care whether it was another buck, a remote control, a mobile phone, my hand or whatever, as long as they were able to climb on, they went for it. I never put them together with females though, as there are too many rats still looking for a home that it would make sense to breed them.



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Since we have lowered the tone to the gutter, I'll risk breaking any rules I don't know of and say, 'there are circumstances in which you could use a female hamster to hammer in nails', by which I hope those that should not know of such things will not, and those that should know of such things, may respond as they wish.

Jo, you'd like Kaiser if you like big dogs

Kaiser is a blue dobermann, he's 8.5st & when on back legs, he's as tall as his 6ft6 daddy.

He's my baby, only a little puppy. He's wonderful :)

I think I'm the only person who calls him little though *grin*

He's most impressive, and his personality is a credit to all associated with him. If he were in any way bad tempered, he would be an awesome thing to encounter. As it is, he just licks your head clean off as he passes you by sitting on the sofa - from above!