donutsweeper | (no subject)

as long as you kept it in carrots... but if those carrots had run out... *shudder*

LOL! Good point.

because... really, have you ever LOOKED at the size of their teeth? herbivore, schmerbivore those are FANGS! And they're sharp!

Yep! They're like rats' teeth, only, y'know, BIGGER. (In defense of rats, my pet rats never bit me. Unless I smelled like food and they tried to taste me.)

exactly!!! and people think they're so cute and fuzzy...

I never had rats, I had hamsters and mice when I was a kid though. Cute little things

Rats are really smart. Hamsters not so much. I had guinea pigs as a kid. Well, cats, dogs, a ferret, baby skunks very briefly, a rabbit (pure evil), a cockatiel--I think that's about it.

My mouse was sneaky, but yeah, the hamsters were as dumb as a box of rocks. My sister had a guinea pig. And gerbils too. As a family we had a dog. I never had a cat till after college.

Skunks? How did that happen?

see- rabbits are EVIL- I knew it

I like the thought of a sneaky mouse. I had two rats, and one was definitely more of a problem-solver than the other. Which translates to sneaky. *nods*

When I was eleven, the stepfather of a friend of mine found two baby skunks. Eyes not even open yet. My friend was leaving to visit his father in West Virginia, and he told me if I'd keep his skunks while he was gone, I could have one of them. They were adorable. But when my mom called the vet to see about getting them de-scented (once they got their eyes open and started to waddle around, they started stamping their feet like the adults do before they spray), the vet said that skunks can be born with rabies and that we shouldn't keep them. We gave them back to my friend's stepfather, and I don't know (or want to know) what he did with them.

My rabbit was evil. Well, very territorial, anyway.

We kept the little animals in a glass cage- probably an old fish tank or something. There was a mesh top that fit on and a water bottle that hung from the side. The mouse figured out that if he climbed up the waterbottle and then along the mesh to the corner he could shake the top so it jumped up enough for him to slip his paw inbetween the top and the cage and then he could lift it and shift it off enough for him to escape.

awww, the skunks sound cute. but- rabies is not somethign to mess with so that was probably a good idea

Aw, I can just picture your mouse making his great escape! And yeah, I cried and cried, but my mom had the right idea there.

I had to resort of putting heaving books along the top to keep it down and heavy enough it couldn't be moved.

awww, poor Mom probably felt terrible

Aw, poor mouse. Rodent Alcatraz. And yeah, my poor mom felt bad. *pets her retroactively*

well, my mom wasn't thrilled with mousy and kind of didn't want him roaming free in the house. When he got out the only think that would lure him out of hiding was corn flakes. I have *no* idea why I remember that- it was more than 20 years ago

Bwahaha! When the ferret would roam the house, my mom would walk on the furniture. And yell for me. First, middle, and last name. And you know what that means. *g*

Aww, I can imagine your mouse not being able to resist the corn flakes.

oooh- all three names- that is SO not a good sign.. and when they stretch each word out? even worse!

So true!

and then there's THAT LOOK. the one that goes straight through you and makes you feel two feet tall

My mother had The Eyebrow. Once the eyebrow went up, there'd better be some behavior improvement immediately.

ooooh. I fail in the evil look department. *sulks*

Oh, me too. Nobody's scared of me.

But you don't have munchkins. Shouldn't there be some sort of 'how to squint just so and get your kids to shut up and obey' sort of manual somewhere?

There really, really should. *nods*

of course such a manual has great potential for evil as well. think of all the ways to misuse it?

True...

there are some skills that the masses should not have access to