In my peanut butter post yesterday, I said rats love peanut butter. It's true, but the gf reminded me: It's not a good idea to give peanut butter to your rats because it's really sticky and they might choke on it. Whole peanuts in moderation are good; they gnaw at them and it helps keep their teeth trimmed, but too many and they'll get all scabby because of the high protein content and you don't want scabby rats.
I regret the error, especially if you've fed some peanut butter to your rats and they choked because you read my post.
Check out the comments to that post. James at Parkway Rest Stop (who inspired my peanut butter post) used to work in a psychopharmacology lab and has some interesting insights into what rats like and into what rats really like.
Posted by Victor at Septiembre 23, 2003 08:23 AM