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magicalaurie Inner circle Ontario, Canada 2962 Posts 
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On 2012-05-26 16:43, Michael Baker wrote: Michael Baker, thankyou for giving me another opportunity to post this video! 
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts
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The average life span for the common pet rat is 2 to 3 1/2 years. My girlfriend's two rats both lived until they were four.
Some rats have much longer live spans. For example, the mole rat (basically looks like a hairless rat) has been known to live for as long as 28 years. It's recently been discovered that a diet of buckyballs and olive oil can double the life span of a domestic rat. http://www.gizmag.com/diet-buckyballs-ex......n/22245/ |
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Mary Mowder Inner circle Sacramento / Elk Grove, CA 3662 Posts
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The carbon spheres?
How could they live on that? I'm a former Snake owner so I have owned rats. They were cute (too cute) but they did smell. I decided to pay the pet shop prices so I wouldn't have to know them. -Mary Mowder |
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts
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On 2012-05-27 15:50, Mary Mowder wrote: No. The rats don't live on them. They are simply added to their diet with olive oil. The original purpose of the experiment was to determine the level of toxicity that the buckballs would cause. Instead they had the opposite effect- no toxicity at all, but the life span of the rats nearly doubled. |
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TonyB2009 Inner circle 5006 Posts
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Thanks for that info, Bob. I don't know about the buckyballs, but I can certainly add olive oil to the rats diet.
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dpe666 Inner circle 2895 Posts
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It's not a rat...it's a hamster!
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hoodrat Veteran user Southern California 388 Posts
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I have always had hairless pet rats for the past ten years or so up until my most recent two died this past spring. They were brothers. Still looking to get some new ones, but the hairless variety are very hard to find. Mine have lived usually for 2 to 3 years. They have died from tumors or just from old age. I've had a couple rats in the past whose back legs gave out and would no longer work. They were still able to get around but had to "drag" themselves with their front legs. Back leg failure is common, I guess. So are the tumors. Best pets in the world!
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Dynamike Eternal Order FullTimer 24148 Posts
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On 2012-05-26 21:03, Futureal wrote: She must not have met you yet. |
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Decomposed Eternal Order High Desert 12059 Posts
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Once I think, I owned a rat. It may have been a mouse though thinking about it, with a long tail. I just remember the mice or rats were cannibals. A bloody mess in that aquarium it was.
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Mary Mowder Inner circle Sacramento / Elk Grove, CA 3662 Posts
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I think Rats and Mice have a certain concentration of population which will trigger this behavior.
I don't think this is their natural way if they have the room that their inner brain finds acceptable. I sometimes wonder If Humans have a similar crazy threshold in population concentration. -Mary Mowder |
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts
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On 2012-05-28 18:11, Decomposed wrote: This is really not as unusual as you might think. If one animal in a group has a seizure or something similar, the others will likely attack it and, in many cases, even cannibalize it. |
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Woland Special user 680 Posts
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Never kept rats, but had mice. The mice will cannibalize newborns if stressed. Very high-strung little animals. Prey to just about everybody else. Must worry them.
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Woland Special user 680 Posts
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As far as the buckyball story is concerned, note that 67% of the rats who received supplemental olive oil alone lived as long as 100% of the rats who received the C60 buckyballs in olive oil. I will comment at greater length after I digest the original article.
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21245 Posts
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I have only owned a rat long enough to feed my to my snake.
Danny Doyle
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ThatsJustWrong! Special user My flying monkeys are perched on 629 Posts
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On 2012-05-27 09:32, Octopus Sun wrote: We used to feed pinkies to our bearded dragons too until the vet pointed out that they have almost no nutritional value for them. Now they get crickets as treats and it gives them some exercise because otherwise they're basically, well, rocks. All this talk of rats dying of tumors only goes to validate a theory I've been putting forth for twenty years. When you want to prove a product is good for you, it's given to rabbits, monkeys and dogs. When you want to prove something, ANYTHING, is bad, give it to a rat and it gets cancer. Ergo, rats cause cancer.
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