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- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!seanews!eskimo!feathers
- From: feathers@eskimo.com (Cheryl Owen)
- Subject: Re: rats
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.153014.29703@eskimo.com>
- Summary: *sniff* my rats died...
- Organization: <<< ESKIMO NORTH (206)-FOR-EVER >>>
- References: References: <1992Nov13.141903.28216@news2.cis.umn.edu> <2eq6TB2w165w@brewich.hou.tx.us>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:30:14 GMT
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- Yeah, some of my rats died under anesthesia in a vet's office. They
- had developed growths; the growths themselves were non-cancerous and not
- painful, but the vet advised that they would continue to grow and the
- rats would be more comfortable with the growths removed. Well, I dunno
- if "metabolically challenged," i.e. dead, qualifies as "more
- comfortable." After several episodes of that, I came to the conclusion
- that rats either don't deal well with anesthesia or that vet wasn't very
- skilled at determining the proper amount to give so small an animal.
- All my other rats save one eventually died of cancer.
-