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Re: Mice and Rats - Animal of the Month: May 2014

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Exactly! =O: =O: Hamsters and squirrels I can handle, but rats and mice give me the creeps. O-/


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BluTuna wrote:What else are they supposed to have? If they had short tails, they'd be hamsters and if they had long fluffy tails they'd be squirrels =O:
=O: =O: =O:


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and is not finished... with long tails 0' =O:
poor Flutts :o0ps:


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Dewi wrote:Rat, Bateleur camp.

"Good Gravy" is the term you Saffies use I think?

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I think, this beauty is a Red veld rat Aethomys chrysophilus :-?

This species has a tail length of 15 cm 0'


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nice speciment... in body... and in tail \O


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Could be a Rock MIce (Grant's Rock Mouse)
Spekboom, Addo 16.10.2012

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Namaqua rock mouse occurs in Addo :-0


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BluTuna wrote:
Flutterby wrote:If only they didn't have those long scaly tails! =O:
What else are they supposed to have? If they had short tails, they'd be hamsters and if they had long fluffy tails they'd be squirrels =O:
A hairy tail and it would be lovely animals ;-)


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Whistling blurry rat O**

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wonderful pictures O/\ O/\


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