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nickyskye — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:59:41 -0800

Radical Rodents: Chopsticks, Bunsen, Harry & Curly, surfing mice. An Australian man trained several mice on tiny surfboards. More surfing critters, a surfing dog and another one. Surfing parrot (video repeats in a couple of spots).

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:19:58 -0800

How cute! I'm guessing that bunsen is a liberated lab mouse, but what about chopsticks?

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:23:12 -0800

And curiously, mice cannot pronounce R's properly, due to their large incisors. Instead, these surfer mice express their appreciation of awesomeness by squeaking "Gnawly!".

By: fandango_matt

fandango_matt — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:26:15 -0800

Previously.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:27:24 -0800

"trained"? They look like mice who don't want to drown to me.

By: bruce

bruce — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:28:16 -0800

but can you teach a cat to surf?

By: stavrogin

stavrogin — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:35:48 -0800

If you don't mind being scratched to hell by a wet, angry cat.

By: rob511

rob511 — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:39:21 -0800

all the way down, bruce, all the way down

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:55:07 -0800

Most disturbing to me is that the "good" rating button is labeled "booyah" on myspace videos. This will require some contemplation.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:08:05 -0800

I love your posts nickyskye, this topic's just awfully familiar for a San Diego girl.

By: churl

churl — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:17:07 -0800

No waterskiing squirrel?

By: Eekacat

Eekacat — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:06:47 -0800

I smell a rat. No really, aren't those rats and not mice?

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:29:56 -0800

Either way, their reaction to you is eponysterical.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:37:44 -0800

(now that i've seen the vids, yeh, they're rats all right. such delightful, clever little animals!)

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:43:00 -0800

No really, aren't those rats and not mice? Aussie rats. Kick-ass surfers!

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:43:58 -0800

I think they could pass that Australia citizenship test we saw on the blue a few days back...

By: essexjan

essexjan — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:01:11 -0800

This reminds me of a show that used to be on TV when I was a kid - Tales of the Riverbank, featuring the adventures of Hammy Hamster, Roderick the Rat, and various other creatures, including a jeep-driving guinea-pig. As a child I'd be entranced as Hammy and his friends would set off along the river on their raft, or go up in a hot air balloon. Guinea would 'drive' his jeep down steep hills and the raft would often encounter 'rapids'. With hindsight, though, I can see that it's hardly kind to put a guinea pig in a toy jeep and launch it down a hill, or to set a few rodents afloat on a raft. I'm sure Hammy really isn't saying to Guinea "Faster! Faster!" Likewise, the surfing rats would probably not go surfing as their leisure activity of choice.

By: smoothvirus

smoothvirus — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:49:54 -0800

This reminds me of a show that used to be on TV when I was a kid - Tales of the Riverbank, You had me thinking you must be 18-19 until I visited your link and discovered that the version I caught bits of while getting ready for work at 5 a.m. in the mid-1990s was a remake of the original from the 1960's.