Is it true that a cornered rat will go for your throat? i am talking about the small animal not the human kind
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Usually most cornered, frightened, angry animals will fight.  Not necessarily for the throat, but whatever they can latch onto.  So be cautious when dealing with small animals ie rats, mice, ferrets, rabbits.
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If the animal is already grown up, it may not be easy to tame it.\nYou can try feeding it from your hand, and never ever frighten it (it'll probably bite if surprised or frightened, even the tamest hamster does).\nUse a leather glove (just in case) and caress it, go slowly until it becomes accustomed.\n \n(They usually don't live more than 2 1/2 years, so I hope you have enough time to teach it to trust you.)
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it's practically the same as any other rat lol....\nno it's not giant...
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I hoped that there might be some sensible answers here, but it appears sadly no. Most snakes have only one lung, as the other has shrunk considerably, but the one lung can be quite long. They do not breath through their anus, although some Australian freshwater turtles do. Their tongue has nothing to do with beathing, it is a chemical brush. \nThey breathe through their nostrils and their mouths (Through the hole in the front that the tongue goes in and out of) and they do no have a diaphram that moves up and down like we do, rather they inflate their lung by moving muscles attached to the ribs, so the ribs move slightly in and out. The have a reinforced trachea so they can still breathe when swallowing prey considerably larger than their usual diameter.\n\nI hope this helps.
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Yes, absolutely, snakes do piss urine. How do I know, you ask?!!?\n\nBecause I've owned one and I've seen it happen many times but only under the freakiest of moments and circumstances!\n\nThe snake I owned was a rock cobra, a particularly nasty and active snake who'd eat one mouse every day or more while most pet-shop cobras are much more inactive and eat only a mouse every few days, by strangling the mouse to death and then opening up its jaws swallowing it down whole.\n\nA large number of snake species regurgitiate and cough up parts of the prey it can't digest, bones, hair etc. which is what my snake did and which left me to believe that that was ALL the waste material the snake was going to produce. \n\nThis snake was particularly ornery and hated to be touched or moved around. \n\nOne day as my brother and I took the snake out of its cage it began to shake and coil itself away from us as we both held on to it as tightly as possible.\n\nThe snake then did something that literally scared and shocked the both of us into letting the snake go which we did but caught before it slithered away.\n\nThe snake in trying to frighten us to letting it go, began pissing and defecating all over in all directions! Now, if you don't expect an animal to defecate or urinate and all of a sudden it does those very things you NEVER EXPECTED, you will certainly be startled by it. \n\nThis happened many many times whenever we handled the snake and as it tried to scare us into letting it go. It was the only times I've ever seen a snake urinate or defecate, ever!!  True story.
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That rat thing is really wild...
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Mongoose, other snakes, predatory birds, some lizards and even some species of trapdoor spiders have been known to catch and eat small snakes\n\n(Thanks tbech7430!!)
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my bunny had those symptoms, it turns out she had a hariball and later died for it because rodents are unable to spit the hair up.  You should get it checked up my a vet :D G00d Luck
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No, I think you may be getting confused with the story about the water snake that swallowed the catfish. Snakes are not single-celled organisms with a maleable body wall, so such an expulsion is not possible. However once I red an article about a water snake that ate a catfish, and when disturbed tried to regurgitate the fish, and the barbs of the pectoral fins penetrated the body wall of the snake and eventually killed it.
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Wow, you are nosy. 2 points for rat. Yayyy , cheese time:)
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Depends on the poop and what is attacking you. If it's a dog, they like poop for example. Please be more specific :)
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It is almost impossible for both snakes to swallow each other at the same time, if there were placed face-to-face. One will eventually have to die first. To start, one snake A must swallow the other, B. When this happens, snake B is unable to swallow snake A as its head is in snake A's mouth.
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The dog won't chase them cause they will stick to it's tongue!\n\n\nActually, your sperm production goes down.
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The male platypus has poisonous spurs on its hind legs...not fangs. And apparently they're only used to fight off rival males during mating season. \n\nI'm Australian. So I'd know, right? ;-)
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I caught 1 smurf last summer, when my pet monkey choked it , it didn't change color....it just farted REALLY LOUD.
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Flying Squirrel Scat is going to be larger than a grain of rice and will be less frequent (although still plenty of it) than mice scat.  You can set live traps for either, I have trapped both animals before, just remember if you do set a trap and catch a flying squirrel it will release a very musky smell and when you open the trap it will shoot out of there like a bullet!  If it is a mouse then you can tilt the trap vertically and you can open the trap without the mouse jumping out!
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since i'm not an airhead-i'll answer on a fishing theme\na rat is a common name for a kingfish(yellowtail-usually)\nso a rat rod is designed for them\nit has a strong butt-short length and not too flexible tip\nthey are a very strong fish that make many runs when hooked\nhence ---the name rat---like a rat up a drainpipe--(really fast)