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Anonymous
my rat had babies.

now she's a bitey bitch who gnaws the shit out of my hand when i try to clean the cage or feed her.

inb4 protect the babies
>> Yiffdog !!gE/Npivj/5x
That's so cool, my college's rats had babies and ATE all but one of them.

Then he was gone after a few days too. ;___;
>> Anonymous
>>196141

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>> Anonymous
Love the picture! More pictures of rats and rat-babies please!
>> Anonymous
Alright, you all knew this was coming..

Why did you breed her?
>> Anonymous
my rat has rabies.

now she's a bitey bitch who gnaws the shit out of my hand when i try to clean the cage or feed her.
>> Anonymous
my rat had babies and she ate them.
>> sage
>>196138
Looks like someone didn't properly socialize their rat.

Untrusting rat is untrusting.
>> Anonymous
when my rats have babies, sometimes they even go as far as to bring them to me to show me.

funny part is, they're not socialized......because they're feeders
>> Anonymous
Why DO rats eat their own babies, anyway?
>> Anonymous
>>196242
They eat the defective ones.
>> Anonymous
>>196242

Rats and mice: When populations of mice and rats rise rapidly, the hungry and stressed survivors may kill and eat young. http://www.ratbehavior.org/infanticide.htm goes into detail about infanticide in Norway rats. This is usually directed towards newborn rats. A mother pet rat may eat her own offspring. Mothers tend to kill deformed or wounded infants, which may allow her to allocate resources to the healthy pups, which are more likely to survive. Mothers may also kill litters when they are stressed, perhaps because she perceives the environment as too hostile for pup survival, or if she cannot to rear the litter successfully. She recuperates some her energetic investment by consuming the young. Malnourished mothers, and mothers who have an abnormal birth experience, may also become infanticidal. An unrelated adult male rat may kill young to bring the mother back into oestrus sooner, so he can sire a litter of his own. Maternal aggression after the birth of a litter may reduce infanticide. Unrelated females may kill young rats to gain food and take over the nest.
>> Anonymous
>>196256

Why cant humans do the same? All animals across this globe sacrifice their weak and deformed. Humans allow theirs to continue living a miserable life and spend billions to ensure their life in their miserable mental and physical condition
>> Anonymous
>>196268
Be thankful, otherwise you'd now be dead.
>> Anonymous
>>196268
Well, the improvement in quality of life and expansion of human ability allows countless people who would be useless in an animal society to remain useful. When it's demanded by pragmatism, humans usually DO sacrifice weak, deformed or disabled children, but those that don't need to often won't.
>> Anonymous
>>196271
i lolled for like 10 minutes
>> Anonymous
my bat had rabies
>> Anonymous
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>>196268
>Why cant humans do the same? All animals across this globe sacrifice their weak and deformed. Humans allow theirs to continue living a miserable life and spend billions to ensure their life in their miserable mental and physical condition

Lol, wut?
>> Anonymous
why did you breed her, moron?

or, alternatively:

why did you buy her from a shitty pet store that didn't know to separate girls and boys?
>> Anonymous
>>196296

lolled at a premise older than dirt

I bet you giggle at Carlos Mencia
>> Anonymous
>>196277
yeah then we end up with Brian Pepperz
>> Anonymous
>>196326
>why did you buy her from a shitty pet store that didn't know to separate girls and boys?

op here, wow. you fucking hit the nail on the head.
>> Anonymous
I once had a hamster when I was like 8 that was pregnant when I got her. After about 3 days of her having the baby in her nest, She crammed it into her cheek pouch and basically killed it. I didnt know what to do to make her get it out. She eventually "spit it out" and it was long dead.
>> Anonymous
>>196361
Sorry, but the image of that in my head is hilarious.

That white hamster from Hamtaro just cramming a baby into her pouch with a load of sunflower seeds.
>> Anonymous
>>196361
i can't stop laughing