Thread: pointy nose??
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Old 01-19-2011, 08:43 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Lil Sis View Post
I read somewhere the reason the faces and tails are gold is so the miners could tell they were not rats in the mines. With the bodies being dark they could not see them in the mines, and I guess they may have looked like the rats they were breed to hunt?
So the pointy noses helped them get the rats ueeewwwww

I love the pointie noises and the not so pointed of my shih tuz also.
I have never once thought that my babies could possibly be mistaken for a rat! Except at bathtime. LOL That's interesting though.
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