Hairless Mice

1. bean
   August 8th, 2008 at 11:43 am

   Is she studying baldness genes in humans, or does she just think those things are cute? Not that I would disagree... I've always thought sphinx cats are pretty. A sphinx cat playing with a bald mouse would be awesome.

2. Alex
   August 8th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

   A hairless Chinese crested dog playign with a sphynx cat playing with a hairless mouse would be awesome. Double awesome if we can get Andre Agassi to play with the dog.

3. Alana
   August 8th, 2008 at 4:47 pm

   There are hairless guinea pigs too. I think they were originally bred because you can use them for dermatology research without having to hire a full time rodent shaver.

4. Lea
   August 8th, 2008 at 8:49 pm

   I had a hairless hamster I rescued from the pet store in my neighborhood. All the "normal" hamsters were picking on it and they had to separate her. My dad thought she was a rock at first (because of how she was curled up).
   Smartest and sweetest little hamster I have ever met though.

5. Daniel Kim
   August 8th, 2008 at 9:35 pm

   Hairless hamster? It sounds like the other hamsters wouldn't let her play any hamster games.

   I used to work for a small biotech company in Berkeley, where they had a room full of caged nude mice. This breed of mice is used in biological research, particularly cancer research. They are conveniently hairless, but also are "athymic": that is, they lack a thymus, which is an immune system organ. This prevents them from rejecting foreign tissue grafts, I think.

   There was one of the scientists who was bald, wrinkled, and a bit portly. He looked a lot like the nude mice.

6. JC
   August 8th, 2008 at 11:52 pm

   I think it´s cute.

7. Mayor of Kentonville
   August 9th, 2008 at 7:10 am

   Makes me sweaty

8. bugra
   August 9th, 2008 at 10:57 am

   Weird and not a good choice for survival in the wild

9. Thomas
   August 9th, 2008 at 11:29 am

   Doesn't blend in very well, does he?

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