Source: Brett Cooper, bjcooper@k-state.edu
News release prepared by: Natalie Blair, 785-826-2642, nblair@k-state.edu

Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011

FAMILY OF 'CATS HOPES TO ADOPT RAT TO SNIFF OUT 1xbet online games login , LANDMINES

SALINA -- It sounds a bit like &1xbet online games login ;Stuart Little&1xbet online games login ; with a twist. But this story isn't fiction.

A group of Wildcats at Kansas State University at Salina hope to raise enough money to sponsor a HeroRAT, an African giant pouched rat trained to sniff out 1xbet online games login or landmines in Tanzania and Mozambique.

Brett Cooper, senior in technology management, Salina, is the Students In Free Enterprise member in charge of the event.

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Cooper also said that rats aren't trained kamikazes.

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In 2009 the HeroRATs found and neutralized 169 mines, 181 unexploded ordinance and 3,871 small arms and ammunition. They also identified 620 cases of 1xbet online games login that would have otherwise gone undetected, and helped prevent more than 9,000 transmissions of the disease, according to the program's website.

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Full training of a 1xbet online games login costs approximately ,350.

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