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To: AugustWest who wrote (166)	1/3/2001 11:24:55 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) of 844

Wednesday January 3 9:07 AM ET Hundreds of Pet Rats Gassed in Home dailynews.yahoo.com JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Hundreds of rats thought to have been taken from a laboratory and kept in a South African home for scientific study were gassed on Wednesday, the main domestic news agency reported. Gwynneth Quick, the 39-year-old owner of the Cape Town house, has been admitted to hospital for observation, the South African Press Association (SAPA) said. She worked as a part-time researcher in Stellenbosch University's pharmacology faculty. Television footage showed rats scampering in and around the house. Curtains hanging in dirty windows were chewed to bits. Environmental health officer Rowland Rumbelow told SAPA the gassing of the rats in the tarpaulin-covered house was quick and painless. ``It attacks their nervous system and causes paralysis. It is not a painful death as far as we know.'' Rumbelow said Quick had told him she was doing behavioral studies on the rodents. He said only one room in the house was fit for human habitation. Quick had offered to donate the rats as food to a bird sanctuary, but the offer was rejected because there were fears that medicines tested on the rodents could kill the birds, Rumbelow told a Cape Town newspaper.

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