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Has this been done?

I have thought that these hybrids could be useful for people who are trying to switch their reptiles from one to the other. They could be offered as an intermediat between the two.

Any thoughts?

I am just curious.

A
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1 BP
4 Cal Kings 3 alb 1 het
3 Alb Corn
1 Rev Alb Nelsons

Aside from different diseases and the possibility of the mice being eaten, The obvious problem is going to be size. If you've seen the difference in size in breeding males and females between the two animals, you'll realize there's QUITE a problem. A breedable rat to a breedable mouse would be just silly. It'd be like breeding a teacup chihuahua to an adult great dane. Put an average litter of new born rat pups next to a female mouse, and ask yourself, "could that possibly be supported?" And then of course on the other side of things,I would assume that the male mouse would be terrified of the female rat, not think, "hey pretty lady, how you doing?"

I know that full grown rats are too big to work with mice. But don't male rats reach maturity befor they are too big for a large female mouse?

I have seen some pretty big breeder mice.

I just thought it would be a usefull rodent for problem switchers.

Any way it is just a hypothetical.

If the cross is possible there is no guarentee the the hybrid will be fertile. And they would probably be expensive, not redally available, and there for impracticle.

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1 BP
4 Cal Kings 3 alb 1 het
3 Alb Corn
1 Rev Alb Nelsons

that the hybrid LOL
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1 BP
4 Cal Kings 3 alb 1 het
3 Alb Corn
1 Rev Alb Nelsons

It has been done through gene-splicing (they are not closely related enough to naturally hybridize) but I am unaware of any ever having been released.

Apparently rat-mouse hybrids are impossible. See http://www.ratbehavior.org/RatMouseHybrid.htm

Bigfoot

you cannot cross genus....

the reason most North American snakes CAN interbreed is theat they are just classified wrongly....

.....just an example......

......and yes I once saw a chihuahua pit bull....big head smaller body...still 4o pounds?......still butt ugly...both are same species and genus....

...anyways,......

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