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minus-squarepoVoqAlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-21 year agoYeah, cool pets. Just a pity that the typical ones are bred to get cancer and thus usually don’t live that long.
minus-squareCommunist@beehaw.orgMlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoI wish a breeder would focus on domesticating and shrinking gambian pouched rats. They don’t seem far off.
minus-squareCommunist@beehaw.orgMlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI feel like degu behavior is sufficiently different from rats that the gambian pouched would have a better end-result.
minus-squarechaos rat [he/him]@beehaw.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoTrue. The way I see it, though, is it’s their entire life for them. It doesn’t really matter. And one rat dying is an opportunity to provide a better life for another one. It’s morally correct and utilitarian, I think!
Yeah, cool pets. Just a pity that the typical ones are bred to get cancer and thus usually don’t live that long.
I wish a breeder would focus on domesticating and shrinking gambian pouched rats.
They don’t seem far off.
Or could get a degu.
I feel like degu behavior is sufficiently different from rats that the gambian pouched would have a better end-result.
True. The way I see it, though, is it’s their entire life for them. It doesn’t really matter. And one rat dying is an opportunity to provide a better life for another one. It’s morally correct and utilitarian, I think!