Doctor Lamont wrote:
Never mind the murderous rage thing, who the hell wants a pet that flings it's excrement at you? It's bad enough when the dog pees on the rug.

This reminds me of a story that made a stink a few years back - there was a medical student at Emory who was working with chimps who had diseases. Forgot to wear glasses, and pow - got hit in the face with chimp bodily fluids and died shortly thereafter with whatever horrors they were experimenting with.