Kayaks or sort of.

I use to take care of some Charles River rats. They were second generation
cesarian delivered rats, After the first experiment they were to be
disposed of. Some we took to a snake farm where they made treats for
rattle snakes the size of stove pipes.
We tested several batches to find out if rats can swim without there
wiskers, Have you ever tried it??

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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"daytripper" wrote in message
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On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 19:36:37 -0600, "Wolfgang" wrote:


"daytripper" wrote in message
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/daytripper (pre-emptive engineering: it ain't all skittles and beer
;-)

WARNING!: Skittles and beer have been shown to be deleterious to
laboratory
animals.

Wolfgang
and they ain't atkins friendly, neither.

Well, of course! A bunch of soused lab rats that can't reset the pins
are
likely to get all surly,

It ain't so much the intoxication as it is the morning
after.......surly?......sheesh!

start gnawing on staff and have to be put down...

I guillotined six of 'em this afternoon.

/daytripper (happens all the time ;-)

Well, actually, about once a week, on average.

Wolfgang
long about the time ya yank the brain out, it's pretty obvious who gets
the
best laugh.

"B J Conner" wrote in message
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I use to take care of some Charles River rats. They were second
generation
cesarian delivered rats, After the first experiment they were to be
disposed of. Some we took to a snake farm where they made treats for
rattle snakes the size of stove pipes.
We tested several batches to find out if rats can swim without there
wiskers, Have you ever tried it??

Nope. Why were you interested in whether or not they could swim without
their whiskers?

Wolfgang

Worked with a couple of PHDs psychologist ( check the spelling on
that) that said they could not. It turned out to be true. The rats
need the whiskers to know where there nose is. If they don't know it
goes under water more and they drown. These were big fat dumb white
rats, never had the chance to test it on whild rats.



"Wolfgang" wrote in message ...
"B J Conner" wrote in message
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I use to take care of some Charles River rats. They were second
generation
cesarian delivered rats, After the first experiment they were to be
disposed of. Some we took to a snake farm where they made treats for
rattle snakes the size of stove pipes.
We tested several batches to find out if rats can swim without there
wiskers, Have you ever tried it??

Nope. Why were you interested in whether or not they could swim without
their whiskers?

Wolfgang