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Feb 17, 2008, 11:30 PM
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This Hindu temple is devoted to Karni Mata, a goddess who is said to have reincarnated her devotees into rats upon death. Today the temple is home to hundreds of rats which represent the reincarnated. Hindus come to worship at the temple and bring offerings of sweets to the rats. The rats are sacred, and it is said that if you kill a rat (by accidentally stepping on it), you must replace the rat with its weight in silver.
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Feb 17, 2008, 11:41 PM
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Feb 18, 2008, 12:19 PM
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I was watching a special series last night on the Mekong River, http://www.asiasteps.com/archives/204 and they had a segment with a buddhist monk who "protected" an endangered series of flying fox bats (they look like little foxes with leather wings, very weird looking). The region they live in is poor and apparently they taste good barbecued so there's a bit of a problem as some people ignore the monk and kill the bats for food.
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Feb 18, 2008, 12:59 PM
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I'll add this to my list of places that I won't be visiting on vacation. Rats just creep me out to much.
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Feb 18, 2008, 02:44 PM
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"kill a rat by accidentally stepping on it"?? as if that's not punishment in itself? hahahah
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Feb 18, 2008, 02:55 PM
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They look so skinny and ill though...They don't look like they're well looked after...?
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Feb 20, 2008, 11:46 PM
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 bet our 11 cats could look after them  just kidding  ya know we LOVE rats bowzziewish we had pics of our beautiful pair of hooded rats, but it was a time when we had no camera
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Feb 21, 2008, 04:28 AM
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I love rats. I would love to have a pair of rats, but my mom doesn't like them.
They're very intelligent and social.
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