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I did some searching today, and came across this by the CDC (Center for Diease Control). Interesting reading.
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Pretty much explains why they aren't being passed around.

Quig

What do you mean they are not being passed around? They are available for sale from several locations? If you are talking about why females are not available I think you are wrong. Monkeypox will not just all of a sudden pop up on CB african rats. If the CB population is clean there is just as much of a risk with african rats as there is with domestic rats. Domestic rats are available everywhere and didn't they cause the plauge? Females are not available because very few people have them and they want to keep the price at $3.00 a pop.
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1.2 Het Pied
1.1 Het Lavender Albino
1.1 Het Albino
0.7 Normals
1.0 50% Het lav albino

Pardon me

Quig

>> Monkeypox will not just all of a sudden pop up on CB african rats. If the CB population is clean there is just as much of a risk with african rats as there is with domestic rats. Domestic rats are available everywhere and didn't they cause the plauge?

No rats did not cause the plague.. they merely helped spread the plague as a carrier. It was the FLEAS that caused the plague. The rats were merely reservoirs that harbored the disease they got from flea bites. Uninfected fleas feeding on a carrier rat would become infected, etc. Fleas tend to be host specific. Dog fleas perfer dogs, cat fleas prefer cats, etc. Fleas can be adaptable into finding another host that is suitable for them when needed too. Now, laws of predator prey... Kill off too many predators, the prey gets out of hand. There were too few predators to keep rat populations in check occurred during a boon in food production (lots of food stores of course is going to attract the rodents). When people started mass killing the rats around/about heavily habitated areas to protect their food stores, the fleas found their natural host disappearing so they in turn moved to humans for blood/survival. Infected fleas feeding on humans infected the humans who unlike the rats had little ability to fight off the disease.
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PHWyvern

And aren't african rats only carriers for monkeypox?
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1.2 Het Pied
1.1 Het Lavender Albino
1.1 Het Albino
0.7 Normals
1.0 50% Het lav albino

I did a search for them

never did find any pics or real useful info at all and checked out pages of links and many links.I gave up......

I did notice many many different diseases and conditions that they had listed for them and studies of all kinds of stuff....

makes you half scared to get them.......

guess the other half will pick them up as soon as possible.....

? why do I try and breed every odd critter I find?......

where do I get more?...........

......zebra mice........pygmy possums........and nice mice........haven't had good gold satins in awhile or super blacks.........hhhmmmmm........
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you think????

Ok I still don't get it but thats ok seeing that I can't get them any ways because I live in WA. Frozen yes but live no.
But what I dont get is what I read on that link provided is that all Aferican rodents are prohibited for sale, transported, live or frozen in the us. Yet here they are for sale females or no females for sale, live or frozen for sale???? I dont get it
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1.2.0 ball python (aragorn, arwen,`eowyn)
1.0.0 100% het pied (frodo)
1.0.0 columbian boa (squiggles)
1.0.0 rat snake (alabastered)
0.1.0 corn snake (baby)
0.0.2 whites tree frog (trevor, kirmet)
0.0.5 pacific green tree frogs
3.2.0 cats (rockie, bs, brownie, lerrado, kole)
1.3.0 kids (dilyen, dakota, chyanne, sierra)
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