I would like a blue rat

[kimberkit]

So apparently, blue food coloring helps recovery from spinal cord injury in rats. The only side effect is that it turns the rats blue:



This leaves me with three final thoughts:

(1) I want a blue rat.

(2) Well, except not if I have to injure its spine first. Did they deliberately give rats spinal injuries? Lab work is not for me, man.

(3) On the other hand, my old, overly-reddish-hued elementary school librarian dyed blue would be hilarious. I once described her as a huge, squishy tomato with an attitude. She'd be a purple and blue tomato. And I wouldn't mind if she had a spinal cord injury first.

Comments

[shellaby.livejournal.com]

Cute rat!

[nescio17.livejournal.com]

That's amazing!

[adularia.livejournal.com]

I've seen lots of photos of the blue rats by now, and they are adorable and I would want to nom their ears if they'd not recently had their spines broken, but I just noticed the apparently custom-engineered chin rests for injured ratties.

Torn between "d'awwww" and "sad face".