quote:For the past year, a special Colombian police unit has been locking rats in cages with cats as part of a project to train the rodents to sniff out the more than 100,000 landmines planted mostly by leftist rebels across this conflict-wracked Andean country.
Bringing the rats face to face with an enemy allows them to stay more focused once they are released, veterinarian Luisa Mendez, who's been working with the animals for two years, told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
posted 25 July 2007 04:48 PM
Many years ago my son brought home a white rat that he purloined from his highschool. I was not very happy but my son insisted that if I only fed it vegetables it would be a nice rat.
I only fed it vegetables and he was a nice rat. He lived in a bird cage and the door was always open so a kitten I had thought it looked like a great place to nap. Everything was fine except the kitten got bigger and the cage door didn't. The rat got fed up with his whole house shaking and bit the kitten.
Traumatized the poor kitten and he remained terrified of the rat all his life.
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posted 25 July 2007 03:48 PM
