Rodents

Yes!, bleugh, hmmm,yes!, hmm, bleugh and such....

Guinea Pigs are rodents!!!

yup!

How DARE you say such a thing??? Rodents are like rats or such things! Guinea pigs are not rodents, they are sweet, cudly, gnawy, hairy little pigs who just happen to have teeth like a rabbit.

...but...but...bunnies are rodents, too...perhaps we should put them in a Cuddly Animals topic rather than under their classification (done by some unfeeling churl, no doubt!)

HEY!! it was me, i'm a wolf, so i call em as i see em! *grin*

there's now a cuddly animal topic reserved for the pet rodents. we'll keep this topic for wild rodents. k?

...pets to 26...more plebian mousy things stay here?! Oook...is there anyone who wants to admire "Ben" - the movie?

Oh Wolfie, YOU did not put cuddly critters into the Rodent classification in the beginning - you are not the Churl I was referring to...*hugs*

i thought i was as i created the topic, but am not offended in the least *hugs*

Thank you for my cuddly animal topic.

Oh goodie!! There's a rodent topic. Can anyone tell me how to spot the difference between a mouse and a rat? Or better yet, post some pics that clearly show the difference. And please don't tell me that certain mice wear little pants and sing and dance to silly tunes and have girlfriends named Minnie. ;-D

and btw, these are definitely not *cuddly pets* :-(

no they are not cute and cuddly...at all!!! I will hunt up something which will demonstrate the anatomical differences between mice and rats. It is not size. The native Hawaiian rat is a little wee thing but it has tiny rat ears, not big round mouse ears - there is not mistaking it!

I like mice, but not rats. They're not at all cuddly, and they don't get tame. THey only come to you, because of food. Mice are too small to cuddle - they'd just get scared. Not like guinea pigs. They geniunely love me. They say that if you have a few they won't get tame, but that's not true. Mine get jealous of each other to be petted, and to sit behind my back and lie between my legs when we're watching tv. It's too cute.

Who says Rats can't be tamed? I Love rats. I 'socialised' the nursery rats and they would sit on my shoulder quite happily, we did have them from babies though. I must admit I like guinea pigs too and fostered two of them for eighteen months recently. I find them SO funny, and the noises they make ....

Ah, so yours come under the cuddly animals topic, not the rodent topic. *lol* we had to create a new one for Riette because she refused to believe her beloved Guinea Pigs were in the same category as wharf rats. I also just adore Guinea Pigs. Not really adore, perhaps, but I think they are really cute and fun to play with.

I was delighted when I found out they will not refuse an item of food - just store it inside their mouths (guinea pigs and hamsters *are* the same, aren't they?)

No - not really. Hamsters are about rat size and Guinnea Pigs are twice or three times that size - like a half-grown kitten.

Some guinea pigs are real PIGS! (greedy I mean)

Yep, they are! Best to have a feeder for each one when meal time comes around.

i hate cleaning their cages (hamsters too).

This is not abnormal, Wolfie *lol*...I do not like scrubbing toilets, either. Oh well, it must be done...!

yes, but do you put it off? (maybe not the toilets)

The only one I was familiar with (talking cages here) had hardware cloth for the bottom and it was not mine - belonged to the boy next door when I was young and innocent and all that. I do not remember what cleaned it...they lived outdoors in their cage as I recall. (No, I do not put off the bathroom cleanup...hate it as I might)

i've seen pet bunnies living outside here and in Kansas. never seen a guinea pig living outside.

(Marcia) .....but...but...bunnies are rodents, too.. Sorry, they're not. They've got their own Order, Lagomorpha, because they don't have just a single pair of chiselly incisors like rodents, but two pairs, one behind the other. Damn!, I've got to quit this and get back to Drool and then home at a decent hour! I've got an Art show to plan for besides the work! Yipes! So bye-bye Bunnies (non-Rodentia)

Yeahyeahyeah....they are lagomorphs...pickypickypicky!!! We cover them under Cuddly critters which is non-sectarian or classification-neutral. Come back when you get bored with Drool (and you will!)

Our fostered guinea pigs (tufty and smoothie - guess why!) had an ouside run all summer. Far better than a lawn mower -we just rotated the pen around. The vet castigated me for keeping them inside in the winter!!!!! said I was pampering them - who me???

(Marcia) Come back when you get bored with Drool (and you will!) HA! And I say "Ha!" again!Now don't bother me, I've got work to do having absolutely nothing to do with bunnies, etc.!

Well...one thing is for certain - if you hang around Drool long enough you learn how to make all sorts of fonts and sizes of type...(are you sure you are not working in your local Playboy Club, KJArt?!) *lol*

In spite of the fact that that sort of thing appeals to Mr. Darcy (Mark, not Fitzwilliam), I'm afraid I've got too much tail to be further enhanced by a cotton one! ;-)

*lol* I doubt that, but you would know better than I. Perhaps it is your perspective? We are not objective observers of ourselves, I think! (Yep! Mark would love that sort of male bonding stuff)