Anyone need some 9 pound rats?

Apparently they have some in the Florida Keys: http://www.keysnet.com/2012/03/24/43...-found-on.html

It is highly advised not to feed wild rats to captive snakes.

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Originally Posted by skinnyrascal

It is highly advised not to feed wild rats to captive snakes.

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Indeed it is not. I should have added If anyone does see any 9 pound rats running around I am not advising them to try to catch them and feed them.

However, if you are not familiar with 9 pound rats (bigger than a typical cat) then I would advise you to click the above link and check them out!

Holy fat rat! Thats crazy!

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Originally Posted by skinnyrascal

It is highly advised not to feed wild rats to captive snakes.

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Lol. We highly recommend feeding wild and invasive 9 pounds rats to ball pythons here...Really though, I'm pretty sure it was a joke.

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Originally Posted by Adam Chandler

Indeed it is not. I should have added If anyone does see any 9 pound rats running around I am not advising them to try to catch them and feed them.

However, if you are not familiar with 9 pound rats (bigger than a typical cat) then I would advise you to click the above link and check them out!

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Those thing are pretty big! I bet they were brought over and release by the same person who let all of the burmese python go....:rofl:

Maybe Florida shouldn't be looking to get rid of those billions of Burmese Pythons after all...

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Originally Posted by Slim

Maybe Florida shouldn't be looking to get rid of those billions of Burmese Pythons after all...

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Hahahaha. You crack me up! So true tho =P

- cringe -

I'm a tad worried for my horse.

hmm sounds like food source for the burms. They should take care of them if they ever made it to the glades.

I've always wanted a gambian pouch rat as a pet. They're very popular in Europe and apparantly make good pets. They're used as working animals sometimes too.

Some labs use them to sniff out certain compounds.
And I believe they are used to sniff out mine bombs in other countries?

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Originally Posted by satomi325

I've always wanted a gambian pouch rat as a pet. They're very popular in Europe and apparantly make good pets. They're used as working animals sometimes too.

Some labs use them to sniff out certain compounds.
And I believe they are used to sniff out mine bombs in other countries?

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I would love yo have one too, but they can be incredibly destructive and are not as social as little Norway rats. My understanding is that they are more accurate than dogs and machines at sniffing out/noticing TB in humans, and are trained to sniff out mines in a wire/harness grid system, because they do not weigh enough to trigger the mines, and no humans are risked in the process.

I think they are still banned here as pets though because of some issue with monkeypox years back... but it has been a while since I looked into them.

Either way, neat animals!

Yes, Gambian pouched rats are very smart. And it is kind of amusing how this is happening all of a sudden, right when the government is going ape:cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r: over the giant feral snakes roaming Florida. Perhaps it's a sign that nature has ways of sorting itself out, and humans don't have to go on killing sprees just because they see one species as an invasive threat? Never know.

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Originally Posted by Slim

Maybe Florida shouldn't be looking to get rid of those billions of Burmese Pythons after all...

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I thought it was trillions?? And don't forget there's those burm/rock SUPER SNAKES! Get your facts straight!! :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by rebelrachel13

Get your facts straight!! :rolleyes:

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Facts? psh. We don't deal in 'facts' :gj: