 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | Big difference between wild rats and pet/lab rats -- Friends and I used to shoot rats with .22 rifles at open dumps -- Don't feel bad about that at all, but I have cried (just a little, guys...) at the deaths of pet rats.
Kinda like the human race, some are to be loved and some are to be shot...
I was going to write an article about Ratbertha for the Rat and Mouse Gazette, but, sadly, it isn't published any more.
I have a lot of Sea Stories -- BTW, the difference between Fairytales and Sea Stories is that one begins "Once upon a time..." and the other begins "This is no sh**!"
Age 67 1/2
Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05
Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08
Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08
Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06
Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08)
Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08)
On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.
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