{"id":433,"date":"2011-03-28T20:14:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T03:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ansatejones.com\/?p=433"},"modified":"2011-03-28T20:14:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T03:14:31","slug":"rat-house-june-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ansatejones.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/28\/rat-house-june-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"RAT HOUSE (June 2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ansatejones.com\/digitalis\/davis\/rathouse\/rats1964.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So back in my former life I was in grad school for Animal Behavior. Since I have a great love of maligned species I decided I was going to do my thesis on handling methods for laboratory rats. I made it through one experiment and decided it just wasn&#8217;t for me, so I left with a Master&#8217;s. However, I had about 40 rats kicking about after that experiment that would be euthanized if I couldn&#8217;t find them homes (this is part of the reason I decided animal experimentation just wasn&#8217;t for me). I&#8217;d decided that rats were for me, though, so I took two home myself, House and Wilson, and gave one to a man from out of town who wanted a new companion for his elderly rat. That still left 37 to figure out what to do with, so I took some pictures of them in the hopes that someone online would help me out. 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