Last year around mid-December, I became the new owner of an ex-lab mouse who I've named Max. He was being used for simple metabolic experiments with three other male mice in an Animal Physiology class-which I wasn't taking-at my campus. As a Bio major though, I spend a lot of time in the Science Center, and grew to befriend the little guys. When the semester ended, I decided I had to take one of them home for a companion. (the other three were also adopted out) That has been almost a year now, and Max has taught me many things about mice, myself, and that big things really do come in small packages. No snakes or shots in his future! He loves his treats, loves his wheel, and loves being petted by me. P.S. The professor that taught the class made an offhanded comment of pleasure about all the animals, including a pair of zebra finches, a clawed frog, goldfish, and zebra danios, being adopted out that led me to suspect Max would've been put down if I or someone else hadn't taken him in.
That is so sad. No animal should go though that, they are our best friends and they trust us. Animals are not meant to be "lab rats", they are not meant to have experiments done on them. I had a pet rat once, I named her Speedy. Speedy was a pet snakes dinner, but the snake wouldn't eat her and so his owners give her to me. She was the sweetest thing and she was very clean. She known how to pick the lock to get out of her cage ~~*lol*~~! They really are great pets. Thankes for agreeing with me about how it is so wrong that people prison animals. My dog suffered so much, we tried everything to save her. We spent over a 1,000 dollars at the vet. She grained a lot of weight where her kidneys had shut-down. She had seizers, it was so awful. Pookie wasn't the first or last. Other neigbor dogs and cats had been prisoned with Anti-freeze! One of my neigbors was the one setting out in Anti-freeze. They would soak hamburger meat in Anti-freeze and would set a bowl of the prison beside their trash-cans. We called the cops after my Pookie died, but nothing was done. After seeing how my baby suffered, no animal should have to go through that. No animal deserves that!
