Finally somebody noticed this. This is not a lab rat. Is a tropical rainforest species of pouched rat. Much bigger and totally different creatures in many aspects. Is like calling rabbit to a hare, or bison to a cow.
Walking around and exploring until finding food is not "forced labor", is what rodents do all the time in the wild. They are inquisitive mammals by nature. I'm 100% sure that the rat enjoy finding mines (= fruit) in the same way as we enjoy hitting bricks in supermario games. Not to mention being safe from predators at night, the veterinary healthcare services, being cleaned from nasty parasites, the food, water and the human company in an animal that is more or less social by nature. It seems a very good deal for the animal.
Trying to claim "animal cruelty!" here is a total nonsense.
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Finally somebody noticed this. This is not a lab rat. Is a tropical rainforest species of pouched rat. Much bigger and totally different creatures in many aspects. Is like calling rabbit to a hare, or bison to a cow.
Walking around and exploring until finding food is not "forced labor", is what rodents do all the time in the wild. They are inquisitive mammals by nature. I'm 100% sure that the rat enjoy finding mines (= fruit) in the same way as we enjoy hitting bricks in supermario games. Not to mention being safe from predators at night, the veterinary healthcare services, being cleaned from nasty parasites, the food, water and the human company in an animal that is more or less social by nature. It seems a very good deal for the animal.
Trying to claim "animal cruelty!" here is a total nonsense.