Labrador Discovers Insanely Cute Rat

[mccardey]

(I'm trying to make up for the jars full of poor little lizards in my last post. There are no jars full of lizards in this post)

Moss [the detection labrador] had been taught to associate the smell of broad-toothed rat scat with having a party.

See? It's a happy post.

 

[mrsmig]

Aw. Himbs looks sleepy.

 

[CMBright]

You're right, that is an adorable little rodent. I thought all the native critters of Australia were some iteratioen of monotreme or marsupial?

 

[mccardey]

You're right, that is an adorable little rodent. I thought all the native critters of Australia were some iteratioen of monotreme or marsupial?

I think rodents are the exception. (Also bats.)

ETA: Google says also, Dingos.

 

[Unimportant]

Awwww, so cute!

 

[Unimportant]

You're right, that is an adorable little rodent. I thought all the native critters of Australia were some iteratioen of monotreme or marsupial?

They have lots of reptilian* critters as well. Ew Ick Yuck.

*I mean, solely for the purposes of this post, the four legged or no legged kind, not the actual Australians.

And birds, which are also critters of a sort.

 

[Unimportant]

ETA: Google says also, Dingos.

Tasmanian devils? And that extinct tiger thing?

 

[mccardey]

Tasmanian devils? And that extinct tiger thing?

Honestly, I don't get outside much because of, I dunno, reading or something.

Helix knows all the outside stuff - I would just ask @Helix

 

[Helix]

Helix knows all the outside stuff

Hello!

Tasmanian devils? And that extinct tiger thing?

They're marsupials.

You're right, that is an adorable little rodent. I thought all the native critters of Australia were some iteratioen of monotreme or marsupial?

Our native terrestrial placental mammals are rodents (loads of them, endemic or shared with New Guinea), bats (loads of both Megachiroptera and Microchiroptera) and the dingo.

 

[mccardey]

Hello!



They're marsupials.



Our native terrestrial placental mammals are rodents (loads of them, endemic or shared with New Guinea), bats (loads of both Megachiroptera and Microchiroptera) and the dingo.

I WAS RIGHT! (And so was google about the dingoes.)

 

[MaeZe]

It looks like a cute little guinea pig.

 

[Janine R]

Or fuzzy hedgehog with its eyes closed

 

[frimble3]

Highest praise to Moss and his trainer, that the Lab found the rat, as he was trained to do, and then remembered his training, ignored his instincts and did not eat the fuzzy little snack standing before his quivering nose.
I presume he was not trained on food rewards.