Ooooh! Just discovered another something Scher likes to eat...

[Racer X]

corn.

[PeterB]

Nope...

Hint #10: NOT a vegetable!

[Paul F.]

Dude.. I'm tellin' you...



I'll bet she's looking at you... right.... now...


Just waiting..... Until you go to sleep...





:-D

[PeterB]

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.)

[Paul F.]

She's smart all right...
She's making you THINK her favorite foods aren't "long pig".

Just biding her time...

[PeterB]

Paul F., the "long pig" is too big for her to eat, anyway.

[Paul F.]

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...

[PeterB]

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

[mikebw]

tuna?

[rz]

I was going to guess tuna too.