tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65766825938845130022024-03-05T16:46:03.071-08:00Like I Give A Rat's A$$Betty Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07086734719753557030noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576682593884513002.post-52210902963655881802014-08-05T04:04:00.003-07:002014-08-05T04:04:36.507-07:00Amazing Facts about Rats<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Rats are the notable damaging pests within the world. They will unfold malady, harm structures and </div>
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contaminate food sources. Some individuals keep rats as pets too. Here are some surprising facts concerning rats:<br />
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Rats are touchy with tummies and whiskers (Keep in mind if you have got a rat as a pet)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Rats like to be petted in sure spots, they sometimes fancy having their ears rubbed.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Rats are extraordinarily sensitive to magnetism fields. You must keep her surround in a neighborhood of the house with a minimum of electronic activity.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Rats will sense moods. Rats will sense tension, concern and alternative negative emotions within the people that handle them and will respond in a similar way. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Rats have a wild facet. Your pet rat can keep his wild, cautious nature – together with an inclination to bite -- while not frequent, light human handling.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Rats grind their teeth. … However not throughout sleep, like humans. Rats grind their teeth after they are feeling content. Curiously, they additionally roll in the hay once they’re feeling stressed. The grinding keeps their small choppers at the right length.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">The average rat litter is twelve.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Rats have poor vision. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Male and feminine rats take issue in each look and temperament. feminine rats ar smaller than their male counterparts, and their fur is sometimes softer. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Rats thrive within the company of alternative rats. Rats ar social and do far better with alternative rats around. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Rats don’t offer. Rats have a really sturdy wall between the muscular structure and abdomen. It’s physically not possible for your rat to forcefully expel food from his tummy. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Rats will squeeze through holes the scale of a Loonie.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Rats urinate as they jaunt mark their path.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Due to rats breeding and sexual union practices - 2 rats in a very vacant warehouse with ample food offer will populate into over a thousand rats in one year.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Rats ar scared of new objects in their setting which may build them terribly tough to entice.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Rats will swim as way as 1km in open water and generally through sewer lines exiting into ground floor bogs.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Rats will fall from a height of fifty feet while not obtaining seriously harmed.</li>
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Betty Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07086734719753557030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576682593884513002.post-46960434036303977202013-02-19T06:27:00.003-08:002013-02-19T06:27:31.864-08:00About Rats<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The pet rat is a domesticated breed of the brown rat (rattus
norvegicus). Rats have been domesticated for over 200 years. Selective breeding
of many generations of Norway rats over all those years has produced the domestic
rat of today which comes in many different colors and markings. Rats are
intelligent, affectionate, clean animals with lots of personality and enjoy
spending time with people. They are curious and adventurous. Pet rats – like
their ancestors – are very social and should be kept in pairs or more (same sex
unless neutered or spayed!).</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Behavior</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rats live in colonies in the wild and therefore should be
kept in at least (same sex unless neutered or spayed) pairs as pets. They groom
each other, play and sleep (often piled up) together. Since you are part of the
rat pack too, don’t be surprised if your rats start grooming you too! They
might check your ears, nose, eye brows, lips and teeth. Be proud and enjoy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Normally, male rats get bigger than females, have coarser fur
and can have a slightly “musky” smell (some people describe the smell as warm
corn chips). Rats reach puberty at around 5-6 weeks of age, but they reach
social maturity at around 5-6 months of age. At this age, male rats in
particular start to behave more aggressively toward each other. They shift from
harmless play fighting into more serious adult fighting. They establish their
hierarchy. This might look scary but don’t interfere unless there are injuries
involved. Females have softer fur (sometimes their fur has a pleasant sweet
smell). They tend to be more active, hardly sit still and always have places to
go. Older rats do calm down, though. Rats don’t see well (especially pink eyed
rats). You might see your rat swaying his head from side to focus on an object
and to help the rat figure out how far away various objects are. They rely
heavily on their nose and whiskers rather than on their eyes. Rats can hear and
produce ultrasound. They communicate with each other at frequencies we humans can’t
hear. Sometimes you will hear the occasional squeak. As a general rule, audible
vocalizations are signs of protest, pain or stress.</span></div>
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Betty Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07086734719753557030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576682593884513002.post-15979614288771156472012-08-06T04:45:00.000-07:002012-08-06T04:45:48.239-07:00Rat Food<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Rat meat is a food that, while taboo in some cultures, is a dietary staple in others. Taboos include fears of disease or religious prohibition, but in many places, the high number of rats has led to their incorporation into the local diets.<br />
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In some cultures, rats are or have been limited as an acceptable form of food to a particular social or economic class. In the Mishmi culture of India, rats are essential to the traditional diet, as Mishmi women may eat no meat except fish, pork, wild birds and rats. Conversely, the Musahar community in north India has commercialised rat farming as an exotic delicacy. In the traditional cultures of the Hawaiians and the Polynesians, rat was an everyday food for commoners. When feasting, the Polynesian people of Rapa Nui could eat rat meat, but the king was not allowed to, due to the islanders' belief in his "state of sacredness" called tapu. In studying precontact archaeological sites in Hawaii, archaeologists have found the concentration of the remains of rats associated with commoner households accounted for three times the animal remains associated with elite households. The rat bones found in all sites are fragmented, burned and covered in carbonized material, indicating the rats were eaten as food. The greater occurrence of rat remains associated with commoner households may indicate the elites of precontact Hawaii did not consume them as a matter of status or taste.<br />
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Bandicoot rats are an important food source among some peoples in Southeast Asia, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimated rat meat makes up half the locally produced meat consumed in Ghana, where cane rats are farmed and hunted for their meat. African slaves in the American South were known to hunt wood rats (among other animals) to supplement their food rations, and Aborigines along the coast in southern Queensland, Australia, regularly included rats in their diet.<br />
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Ricefield rats (Rattus argentiventer) have traditionally been used as food in rice-producing regions such as Valencia, as immortalized by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez in his novel Cañas y barro. Along with eel and local beans known as garrafons, rata de marjal is one of the main ingredients in traditional paella (later replaced by rabbit, chicken and seafood). Ricefield rats are also consumed in the Philippines, the Isaan region of Thailand, and Cambodia. In late 2008, Reuters reported the price of rat meat had quadrupled in Cambodia, creating a hardship for the poor who could no longer afford it. Cambodia exports about a metric ton of rats daily to Vietnam as food.<br />
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Elsewhere in the world, rat meat is considered diseased and unclean, socially unacceptable, or there are strong religious proscriptions against it. Islam and Kashrut traditions prohibit it, while both the Shipibo people of Peru and Sirionó people of Bolivia have cultural taboos against the eating of rats.<br />
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Rats are a common food item for snakes, both in the wild, and as pets. Captive-bred ball pythons, in particular, are fed a diet of mostly rats. Rats, as food items, are available from many suppliers individual snake owners, as well as to large reptile zoos. In Britain, the government in 2007 ruled out the feeding of any live mammal to another animal. The rule says the animal must be dead (frozen) then given to the animal to eat. The rule was put in to place mainly because of the pressure of the RSPCA and people who found it cruel.</div>Betty Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07086734719753557030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576682593884513002.post-11891151983502115102011-08-19T00:46:00.001-07:002011-08-19T00:46:17.205-07:00Rating<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A rating is the evaluation or assessment of something, in terms of quality (as with a critic rating a novel), quantity (as with an athlete being rated by his or her statistics), or some combination of both.<br />
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Rating may also refer to:<br />
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Credit rating, estimating the credit worthiness of an individual, corporation or country<br />
Fire-resistance rating, the duration for a passive fire protection to withstand a standard fire resistance test<br />
Naval rating, an enlisted member of a country's Navy not conferred by commission or warrant<br />
Performance Rating, in computing, used by AMD<br />
Ranally city rating, a tool used to classify U.S. cities based on economic function<br />
Content rating like the following:<br />
Rating site, website that allows rating<br />
Reputation system, a score for a set of objects within the community based on a collection of opinions<br />
Telecommunications rating, the calculated cost of a phone call<br />
United States presidential approval rating, a polling term which reflects the approval of the President of the United States<br />
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