Anyone need some 9 pound rats?

[Anatopism]

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!

[skinnyrascal]

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.

[rebelrachel13]

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

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

[h00blah]

Get your facts straight!!

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