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You're talking about automated audio scolding. That's a web 2.0 thing that dodgy has in mind for the site. We're going to roll that one out as soon as I can come up with a rounded-corners chrome banner and button-navigation design.
i use to wake to the sound of my roommate says "Bad rat! Bad rat!" every morning or months.
It was a bad rat.
it tried to pee on me once.
and ate spackle once.
Once.
Thankfully I've trained mine to not leave raisin surprise everywhere. Well, they just kinda stopped doing it on their own for some reason.
They also love beer. They don't get it very often, but between the two they'll clean out a few dozen drops held in a bottle cap lickity split and then be all super rambunctious for half an hour, wrestling and poing-poinging all over the place. Then they're out, snoozin' away.
That's not true, ethylene. Let a rat have as much peanut butter as she likes and see. Yes I know, PB is bad for rats. But I didn't know that when I was 8, and she really really liked it.
now some birds can't burp, i think.
i'm sure ther is a burping bird somewhere, though.
and thankfully, i will never have to worry about rat emetics again.