An interesting little creature that have been known to chew through concrete. Their class is mammal, their order rodentia. African people often refer to them as sand puppies,but today no puppies in sight,just five adorable newborn kittens. My lover of all animals son told me that one of Mabel's kittens looked like the naked mole rat. Well I will let you be the judge of that. Mabel's kittens were born yesterday on 6-25-08. Five in all, two orange,one buff,one gray and one black. Mommy and babies are doing well. Oh, and by the way these so-ugly-their-cute little rodents eat their own poo, the naked mole rat that is not the kittens.(although growing up we had a dog that...well maybe in another post.) That's right they do this in order to absorb more nutrients from their food. Two meals for the price of one. They don't only eat their poo they also roll around in it, this is done so they can identify members of the colony vs. an intruding colony. Quite similiar to the way I identify my own colony after a hot summer night of playing outside:) Just thought you would want to know:)
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