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Rickeezee · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:10 am Post subject:

I like them for the novelty factor plus they do look cute. I would call one of em James Cagney.

Do you plan to breed them and sell them Scott or are you just keeping them as actual pets, or both even?

My better half thinks they are well cool. She loves rats n mice!

She wont touch my millipedes though. Most odd.
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Scott W · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:11 am Post subject:

Hopefully Pets that will breed Wink

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Rickeezee · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:13 am Post subject:

Nice one, Maybe I will be able to buy some for my other half for her B/day. And train them to bite her mother hehehehhehehehehehhehe.
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Scott W · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:26 am Post subject:

I should imagine they are easy to train. Found on a website last night that they train the poor fellas to search for land mines Shocked

Copied from http://www.mgm.org/e/research/rats_1.htm

Different to dogs who get their drive to search for explosives out of their stimulus to play, the rewarding system with rats works via food, quite a good reason to work hard…
Apopo found many ways to make rats indicate explosives, but today the project focuses on two approaches. One uses laboratory rats trained to remotely analyse vapour strips (similar to the MEDDS system), the other one trains the rodents to work in the minefield itself. MgM is the trial partner for the “free-running” rats only. The test mine field consists of hundreds of real landmines (without detonator!) of different types buried at different times at different depths. An external marking system clearly indicates the position of the mines in each box. Various systems have been trialled in order to force the animals to search the box systematically, the system MgM monitored in action showed some drawbacks in handling, but the detection rates were an astounding 100%. The rats slightly scratched the surface only and indicated this way exactly where the mines were buried.
Although the achieved speed of 100 sqm in 30 minutes is substantially slower than a dog, it still remains much faster than manual (human) clearance by prodding/metal detector. Taking the costs in account, to beat the rather expensive dogs in effectiveness, one simply uses more of the relatively cheap pouch rats… Whereas these animals have proven their capacities as such, Apopo claims it will take another two years until free-running rats can be sent into MgM operations to work in parallel with the dog teams. MgM are very much looking forward to this, as it is likely to be an excellent tool for the quality control of cleared areas.
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Stuart · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:29 am Post subject:

Can picture it now..Scott and his Rat scouting epping forest for mines..lol Laughing

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Rickeezee · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:30 am Post subject:

So they would be able to detect mines that I laid around almost mother in laws house then?
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Scott W · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:32 am Post subject:

Stuart · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:33 am Post subject:

Danny Moon!!!! Laughing

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Rickeezee · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:37 am Post subject: