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- From: mporter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mitchell Porter)
- Subject: Re: What to feed rats..
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.055721.3279@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- References: <1992Nov23.031432.7186@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <adwright.722533885@vincent1.iastate.edu>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 05:57:21 GMT
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- adwright@iastate.edu writes:
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- >In <1992Nov23.031432.7186@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mporter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mitchell Porter) writes:
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- >>Help! My flatmates have left for a week, and they have left me a note
- >>suggesting that I leave some food on the floor every so often for their
- >>pet rats. I left out a dimsim last night, and it was gone this morning, so
- >>either it was accepted or we have cockroaches MUCH bigger than I realized.
- >>I don't want to feed them just dimsims for a week, however. Any suggestions?
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- >Try bird seed, cat kibble, carrots, greens or most any leftovers. They are
- >supposed to really like sweets like chocolate but i dont suppose thats
- >so good for them.
- Yes; as I was walking through a shopping centre this morning I saw on a
- TV screen chocolate listed as good *bait* for mice and rats (along with
- dried potatoes and a few other things). Not that chocolate is poisonous,
- but rather that they like it.
- Last night I left out two dimsims for them, but they had been left
- untouched this morning (it was a different sort of dimsim and it tasted
- relatively bad, I tried one myself on the way home). Today I was advised
- by a friend who used to have a pet rat that she used to feed hers bread
- soaked in honey (!!), I think.
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