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Re: Ooooh! Just discovered another something Scher likes to eat... - Racer X - 05-18-2006
corn.
Re: Ooooh! Just discovered another something Scher likes to eat... - PeterB - 05-18-2006
Nope...
Hint #10: NOT a vegetable!
Re: Ooooh! Just discovered another something Scher likes to eat... - Paul F. - 05-18-2006
Dude.. I'm tellin' you...
I'll bet she's looking at you... right.... now...
Just waiting..... Until you go to sleep...
:-D
Re: Ooooh! Just discovered another something Scher likes to eat... - PeterB - 05-18-2006
Paul F., no way. It had been so long since I've kept rodents as pets, that I'd forgotten the fact that they are actually pretty intelligent (as a group) and that their intelligence is largely based in curiosity and learning both by trial-and-error (like what we primates use) and conditioning. It's the latter that is so often taken advantage of in behavioral tests with rodents-- that they are very amenable to tests involving classical conditioning.
The reason I bring all this up is that she has VERY quickly learned to associate me (my voice, my smell, etc.; since hamsters have very poor eyesight) with a source of food. That is, she knows that when I come by, I will give her food-- I am NOT the food itself! (She knows this, and despite the fact that I've had her for only about a week, she hasn't yet bitten me-- the only time she came close is when I was feeding her peanuts, and the scent of the peanuts was of course on my fingers... washing my hands took care of that.)
Re: Ooooh! Just discovered another something Scher likes to eat... - Paul F. - 05-18-2006
She's smart all right...
She's making you THINK her favorite foods aren't "long pig".
Just biding her time...
Re: Ooooh! Just discovered another something Scher likes to eat... - PeterB - 05-18-2006
Paul F., the "long pig" is too big for her to eat, anyway.
Re: Ooooh! Just discovered another something Scher likes to eat... - Paul F. - 05-18-2006
Like I said.. she's smarter than you think...
She's not going to eat such a fine meal all at once...
It could take days...
Re: Ooooh! Just discovered another something Scher likes to eat... - PeterB - 05-18-2006
Hint #11: This is something that Paul F. would not eat, because it's unlikely that it would ever be past its expiration date (if bought canned; if bought fresh, he might eat it uncooked past a safe amount of time, and then even Paul F., with his iron stomach, would be kissing the porcelain!)
;-P
Re: Ooooh! Just discovered another something Scher likes to eat... - mikebw - 05-18-2006
tuna?
Re: Ooooh! Just discovered another something Scher likes to eat... - rz - 05-18-2006
I was going to guess tuna too.