I Just Adopted A Rat. His Name Is Ziko.

Posted on March 10, 2010 
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A few days ago I watched a BBC documentary about Bart Weetjens – an entrepreneur in Africa who trains rats to sniff out landmines and even tuberculosis.

Rats supposedly have such a fantastic sense of smell that they can detect unexploded landmines and the early development of tuberculosis.

The show mentioned an official website and I checked it out. I really liked the idea and I liked the rats. ;)

The official site HeroRat.org allows you to donate by a single donation or by “adopting” a rat for the donation of 5 EUR per month payable by Paypal.

Ziko the rat - landmine sniffer

I chose the rat Ziko for adoption and yesterday received an official certificate of adoption which you can see above and a letter from Ziko saying thanks and explaining what he does.

I find this a great idea and I invite you to check the HeroRat.org website and consider helping Bart out with his amazing project that saves lives.

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6 Responses to “I Just Adopted A Rat. His Name Is Ziko.”

  1. Nick Bank on March 11th, 2010 1:10 am

    Very creative use of animal’s such as rats. I believe that we as net entrepreneurs need to adapt this creative spirit into everything we do, to have any significant success in both online world as well as in life generally.

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  2. Courtney on March 11th, 2010 5:26 am

    Dear Tomaz,

    Thank you so much for sharing our work within your network. It means a great deal to us that people feel connected to the work we do and feel like they are a part of it. I am glad you learned about us through the BBC special and thank you again for spreading the word. We look forward to staying in touch.

    Warm regards on behalf of the HeroRATs team,

    Courtney

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  3. Michelle on March 13th, 2010 8:05 am

    Well, I have to say – I never know you could adopt a rat!

    Interesting idea. Did you get to pick out Zikos name?

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  4. Tomaz on March 13th, 2010 9:35 pm

    No, Ziko was already named and it was one of 5 or 6 rats that you can “adopt” at this time. ;)

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  5. tom on March 25th, 2010 12:40 am

    hi T,

    read yo blog often lately – great stuff thanks. I was wondering how much money you make ? Also how much do you get paid an hour to blog like this? (or how much does you get paid every hour from the money from the blogs)

    thanks

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    Tomaz Reply:
    March 25th, 2010 at 10:13 am

    Tom,

    I wrote my Journey to Freedom in December 2007 and at that time I was earning almost 10k. I earn more now. ;)

    How much I get paid for blogging? This particular blog earns very little compared to how much other sites earn with the same amount of content.

    I write here more for my pleasure and to help other people improve their traffic and earnings with their sites.

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