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Originally posted by Hollie
reply to post by lunchmanstan
Bit her nose off eh?
Authorities said the girl's parents put her in a crib next to their bed early Sunday and awoke a few hours later, when a heart and breathing monitor alarm went off. The 4-week-old baby, which had been born prematurely, was lying in a pool of blood with her nose and part of her upper lip chewed off. The parents found rat feces in the crib. Read more: www.foxnews.com...
WAVERLY, Ohio – Three people have been accused of letting rats bite a 6-week-old girl and chew off her toes at their cluttered Ohio mobile home. Pike County prosecutor Rob Junk says the baby's toes on one foot were gone when sheriff's deputies went to the home Sunday after receiving an anonymous tip.
Rats are horrid little creatures, and like someone said they spread piss and # all over the place. They also spread fleas and disease. They also like to chew stuff, and sometimes that could mean a wire in your house.
Originally posted by Hollie
Originally posted by thirdeyevision
reply to post by Hollie
ok well since you think rats are clean, enjoy your subway & let your rats walk around on your dinner table & you guys can eat together lol, i will pass.
I do not just "think" rats are clean. It is a fact that they are clean. They are one of the cleanest creatures around. They do everything they can to be clean. I do not eat Subway or any of that other junk, and I certainly wouldn't let my rat eat there either. Why hate on rats? LOL they are awesome!edit on 30-5-2013 by Hollie because: cause I confused their and there
Bathe in what... # and piss in the sewers.
Originally posted by Hollie
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
reply to post by Hollie
How can one see Rats as clean? You know the most obvious sign of rats in a structure? The dark/off color to the rafters and joists they most use to travel. The off color is their pee, dribbled as a trail and territory marker as they move along and do, whatever it is they are doing at the moment.
It's not opinion but pretty well established fact for the diseases they carry and what parasites they harbor that also carry real nasty stuff. Not necessarily pet store rats, since I'd assume people who have them as pets aren't catching them in wild attics and basements to turn domestic. Wild rats though? Well..... They invented the .22 rifle and then someone noticed a rat, immediately after. A marriage was born.
* It's like saying Prairie dogs are cute. Yes.. they certainly are, too. Very cute...and shoot on sight for pure sport in several states ..just to help get numbers under control. Prairie dogs are natural reservoirs for Bubonic Plague. Not every cute cover has a good reading book inside.
Rats constantly bathe. Saying something that craps makes it filthy? Uhhhh, okay. Humans harbor and spread more diseases than a rat or its parasites do. Mid-evil society was disgusting. Prairie dogs are cute but not as cute as a rattie
Originally posted by Slugworth
If there was a person shoving his bare feet in a pitcher of orange juice before serving it nobody would debate the sanitation of that.
Originally posted by Hollie
reply to post by liverlad
They bathe like a cat does. They groom themselves obsessively.
Originally posted by WaterBottle
My friend had pet rats. They aren't clean as they carry disease (feral ones), and poop all over.
They are very smart though and people friendly. One would sit on my shoulder like a parrot every time I took him out. They're kinda like little dogs in a way.
edit on 30-5-2013 by WaterBottle because: (no reason given)