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Naughty rats get the tube (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[-] [email protected] 80 points 4 days ago
[-] [email protected] 57 points 4 days ago

Not just real, scientifically relevant!

[-] [email protected] 34 points 4 days ago

Well that's just micing on the cake.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago

That's a rat though

[-] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago

It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the tube again.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You need to tie-die some lab coats now.

And you will be pied pipers.

(Edit I hope OP work in a lab and not Petco or some shit, otherwise "some experiments" sounds pretty ominous)

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

This picture gives me claustrophobia

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Moustrophobia was right there.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Gross behaviour, free the mice!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

I want one for my cats.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Hoboken style, baby!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

so what does this do?

is it a punishment?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

It's called a "decapicone", it's for humanely decapitating lab mice

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

I don't like it, but I have done so very many cervical dislocations. For my psyche, better than asphyxiation.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

They're easier to use for trials like this

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

angel, if only....

[-] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago

Not that anyone cares this is almost impossible to read on desktop

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

You are on desktop. You have so many ways to deal with that problem it's not even funny.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago

And I am aware of zero of them so welcome to my blocklist unhelpful person

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I can open the image and zoom it.

this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2025
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