Comments on: A Tumor of a Different Sort… Oh Rats!

By: norm

norm — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:58:48 +0000

susieq, so sorry to tell you its not prostrate its prostate.
makes a very big difference.

By: KatAttack

KatAttack — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:47:32 +0000

I love rats, they make fantastic pets! I have had 2 and many of my friends have had them as well. We used to carry them around with us, on our shoulders or in pockets. Our rats only slept in their cages, everything else they came along for. One of my friends even had her boy on her shoulder for her grade 12 photo!

They’re clean, smart and take training well.

My second rat, Arabella, developed a large tumour similar to this in front of her left hip. I had made a vet appointment, and one day before it, I woke up and she had chewed a hole in the tumour and pulled out and eaten all of the innards! She was fine!

D:> She lived for another 2 years after that!

JStorm, any doctor that had ANY animal in the practice would make me think twice about continuing with that GP. Plus, some people are made nervous or allergic to dogs. Go play “This animal > That animal” somewhere else!

By: Swedishpusycat

Swedishpusycat — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:30:55 +0000

Long time pushead, first time commenter

do you call that rat SMALL?? i had a pet rat, it was a lot smaller than the tumor! bur maybe that’s just our Swedish rats

By: creamymatter

creamymatter — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:58:20 +0000

Please disregard my inability to proof read my submissions. Wish I could edit my post…LOL!

By: creamymatter

creamymatter — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:57:22 +0000

The correct term Half is opinions are like areseholes; everyone has one and they all stink

Owned rats all my life and still dow tih my own children. Rats are very clean and intelligent little animals. Unfortunately most rats pass away from tumor related illnesses. Rats have been bred for so many years to develop various tumors to allow for testing and cientific purposes that it is now part of their genetic make up. Nearly all my rats passed as a result of tumor related deaths, often hitting them within their second year of life.

Not saying everyone has to love a rat, but to each their own. They are my pet of choice.

By: pimplepoppinmama

pimplepoppinmama — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:00:10 +0000

This doesn’t bother me because they are helping the rat. My daughter had two pet rats. I kept one for her when she couldn’t be home. These rats are bred for being pets. I think that snake could have been fed the rats that are in our alleys that carry disease and invade our houses and cause damage. That is what I was talking about in snake abscess.

By: Halph Staph

Halph Staph — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:47:24 +0000

Opinions are like aresholes, everyone has one.

By: JStorm

JStorm — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:32:20 +0000

“Rats make lovely pets!”

Yeah right. If it’s an animal you have to keep in a cage, it’s not a pet it’s a zoological specimen at best.

My doctor has a dog at his office. It’s quite friendly and cute. If I saw a rat there. I would not find it friendly or cute. I’d question my choice of doctor.

As to the video, I have no idea what it was that was cut out, but my cat has claimed dibs on the rest of the rat.

By: tai mai shu

tai mai shu — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:24:36 +0000

How awful! That poor rat! =(

By: magna-cum-pus

magna-cum-pus — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:12:49 +0000

Poor little guy. That must still be hard for you.

The use of animals in research, especially rodentia, has advanced medicine in ways otherwise impossible or impractical. An often conflicted, volatile issue.