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In my new series about keeping my rat healthy, I come up with the most current information possible:

1) Feeding my rat 'junk food' is not good for his reward centers

Junk food could be addictive 'like heroin'

2) HFCS causes rat handlers to make spurious claims

A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain

oh lawds

everybody run before the HFCS kills you!

I once had a mouse that looked kinda like that.

Is that a pl rat?

No, its an offseason Lee Priest wearing a fur suit

Get a hamster. Much more svelte, no matter what you feed 'em. Anything over a certain number of calories and they just hide it somewhere.

unless you get a hamster like they use for obesity modelling

woot

Good god, what did they do to that poor thing?

lol

One day, if NZ laws allow me, I would love an agouti mouse

Normal

Agouti


not as fat as the ob/ob leptin def mouse, but they are a purdy yellow

leptin def on left


but my ultimate aim is to cross the agouti mouse with a myostatin deficient mouse



then I will have created the ultimate powerlifting mouse, or a giant butterball that is strong enough to move himself around, but does not have long enough legs to move himself around.

(03-29-2010 12:16 PM)Balthazar Wrote: [ -> ]

Pepa?!

I may have been young but I know rat food wasn't supposed to do this to him!

Then again most rats don't have to be put to sleep after 2.5 years.