Fancy Rats as Pets: Expectations VS Reality 

So true! They robbed me of hundred of cheerios and gerber puffs, the fiends! XD

I tried having Riley bite a peice of gerber puff off the whole puff after spinning but she stole the whole thing and ran away with it. Heather did the same.

True story

BeavisSaves

Yeah lol

Awe

That's what I'm saying. Sometimes you meet an animal that is different than the rest. My rat Dean was like a dog in a rats body. So strange. He was a free roam rat on the sailboat we lived in. He chose to sleep next to me in bed almost every night. He'd still be there in the morning too. Run over to me from his favorite cubby across the boat and over to the bed right into my lap and flop down. I could always tell he was coming for me because he would run with this special quickness. He just exuded confidence and always did even when he was the smaller rat. When I met him he was in a tiny tank with a bunch of other babies. I put my hand in and he immediately walked out of the crowd all confident and jumped in my hand. Wouldn't jump off. I paid two dollars for his life. God I miss him Sorry. I just wanted someone to know about Dean.

@@paigedavis1704 Dean sounds like a great sea-worthy rat lol

Davien McCarty one of my old rats used to do that. One I still have just puts herself to bed as she can jump from my bed to her cage

I did this today I'm glad he's not much of a runner

ThexVaultxTech TRUE

The Vault Tech well... that's how rodents are lmao Just like my Chinese hamster he shits everywhere

At least they're tiny turds that are easy to clean up! 💩💩😂

My chins are shitting machines I swear.

My rats don’t do that theyvwait to poop till there in there cage

Koko Kringle YES! 😂❤️👍

the homes I visited before getting rats myself never smelled that bad so I was like "itll be okay" but now my room just smells like I keep at least 5 panthers and 3 grizzly bears in here

xD

I never had this issue with mine. Makes me wonder how often you clean out the cage. Do you clean the cage its self when you do?

Miranda Cunningham every 2-3 days, cage itself every month

Same! It doesn’t help that my mom and brother constantly give in and feed them Cheerios - they know if they just look pleadingly through the bars and maybe stuck out a paw, they’ll get whatever they want!

You should see the way my rats greet my python.

i love it

Spaceman Spliff Uhm.. no thanks.

Mine chews the bars for attention and food. I just wish he'd chosen something quieter.

NanaCh@n This is SO true

EXACTLY

So very true. Look at all this play area and Yoggies and other treats, but they run behind the book shelf. ARGH!!!

So true

Yes this is so true 😂

Someone in the bio-engineering industry seriously needs to work out how to increase Rats life-spans.

@@tristanbackup2536They'll. Cuz whatever increase human life-spans is testing on Rats first.

Legit question: How do you deal with their water needs when carrying them around for extended periods of time?

@@gaterzoom cucumbers as an example, usefull in long trips aswell

@Noodle Poodle YES OMG!!!

expectation: i want a rat who reaches 1,60 m height when she stands on her hindlegs Reality: they are all small and just go to 40-50cm without tail in lenght when you take the really big ones =(

I don’t think you know what a rat king is 😰

*Suki* Ok nevermind I googled it, comment cancelled

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Ahh, I knew I was missing something! Yes, every single time I try to give each rat a treat, by the time I finish the first is back to giving me sad eyes because they want another! It’s a never ending cycle!

The struggle is real!! And their faces are so cute and sad without a treat! 😂

Shadow The Rat if you haven't seen the page Dapper Rat you are seriously missing out! It's absolutely hilarious! The middle menu at the top has a chapter about treat triggers! I think you'll enjoy every comic there XD www.dapper.com.au/ramblings.htm#triggers

JourneyWithKai omg this happens to me all the time and I know I should not be giving them treats but you can't say no to there little faces 🐁🐁

JourneyWithKai omg yasss mom rat problems haha

What perfect names for their personalities!

omfg my boys are named the same Thor is big and grey while Loki is small ,grey and white

....... I HAVE TWO RATS ONE BLACKISH GREY THE OTHER TANISH GOLD I MISSED OUT ON A PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO NAME THEM THOR AND LOKI!!!!!!!! .... Then again its still not to late they haven't learned their names they have now.

They are not too hard to care for, but their sweetness makes it worth it.

Btw...my 3 ratting are Ratatat, Brat, (or B.Ràt) and Spirit . Love them!

same here!

Same

I've got a fancy rat

And his name is James

Спокойной ночи котёнок мой маленький...люблю тебя малыш 1

Крысы умеют еще и шипеть, как кошки или мурены. Это крайняя степень защиты и крайняя степень испуга.

So true :(

Yup, Cream was tired of me trying to film clips of picking her up :P

Shadow The Rat lol she looks like our old rat boo. And sorry I meant she not he. ;P

So true! :)

The cheesyness was necessary, I just couldn’t resist!

Samee I think its sweet to see their personality's

Me and my sister each got a rat when we were young, but for whatever reason we never named them, they were "My Rat" and "Her Rat" etc. Hers was very sweet but mine was scared of everyone but me

mine decided that the bin made a good bed... and would sleep in it even though the other one used it...

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My 1st rat learned to use a litterbox after he was out of his cage for about 12 hours (I was gone for the day) and he saw out cat use her litterbox. They bother came to meet me at the front door when I came home. Of course he also found a new bag of Hershey's Nuggets and I found partially eaten Nuggets secreted all over the apartment when I moved out.

My Two older boys use the litter bin, whereas the three younger boys (about 6 weeks) find it to be a great bed. Regardless of the 3million baskets/ hammocks hanging around

Party Lemur mine flip it and hide under it..

Thanks! :)

Shadow The Rat hahaha in everything from the reality section is my fancy rat world but just can't not fall in love with them lol. I'm so excited I finally found a second hand critter nation 2 story cage for them. Sorry I just really wanted to tell someone. My pets, rats and my dog have always been mine and my daughters but she moved away for school and I'm the only one now to take care of my girls so I don't have have many people to talk to about them. The cage is huge and my babies are 5 months old you can imagine the room for them to play in lol

I suggest joining the facebook group "the rat fan club", they have experience with litters and can help quite a bit.

Shadow The Rat alright I will but she had seven babies and she’s being a good mom rn but the I didn’t even know she was pregnant the pet store said they were both boys ahhh

Oh dear, make sure to separate her and her cagemate as they can mate again right after birth! I hear its a good idea to use a bin cage or tank when the babies are young to avoid injuries from falls and such, it might be worth making a bin cage just for the next two weeks. Otherwise I wish them luck, feed the mother lots of protein foods for her hard work, poor fluff will need it!

Shadow The Rat yeah the same hours she gave birth to all her babies we went out and got a cage for my other rat rico they are separated and doing well I’m going to be looking at diys to make them a bed and I’ve been asking around to about how to care for them

@@rawrrico You don't have to do anything, mama does it all. Just give her things to make a nest out of. I gave mine shredded news paper. And male rats have giant balls, so if they dont have giant balls, its a girl.

I GUESS THEY'RE RAT-BUNCTIOUS

That's not true Kyrs they groom you don't they? They love you

Thank you!

Yeah that sound hurts my ears...

So true :)

You can't stop

So true :P

L love rats

Arwynne Roulston makes sense

I love my rats vuy it kinda hard to train them when I have 4 cats

Hehe, they do tend to be quite distractible don't they? XD

I'm so sad I don't have rats anymore mine died RIP Lela and Whisper😭

Reality: They like hopping down shirts just as much, its like a warm cave to explore.

DefectedZombie do I t pose over them because that is how I assert my dominance

Not sure what ya mean?

Do you share this knowledge someplace online?

I had intention too I started a rat journal ages ago, but at the time when I had my group that I let run loose and teach me I was living in a two bedroom apartment that was completely contaminated with mold, it wasnt as bad back then but the effects slowly started to affect my life more and more and I had no idea what was causing them till it was too late, thus making it so I couldnt keep up with keeping the journal (more so updating the site enough that it didnt get taken down due to inactivity,) used to have slide shows dietary info, bonding info, and animal husbandry info(how to have rats and even another animal like ferrets get along (I do have videos of the ferrets and rats on my channel under this name (under the playlist "lets view pets" the one with the rats and ferrets is after we moved out of the apartment set up their own room the video is called 'fake grass blows their minds or something) Was in that place for 10 years the result, I have to sleep with a cpap machine, I only take in 65%(up from 35% since moving out of the apartment) of the oxygen my body needs I have been diagnosed with restrictive lung, I had to get sinus surgery upon which the ENT found a large mass in my left cheek, she said when they opened my cheek the whole OR filled with the smell of mold, has and is willing to put it in writing for when and if I do go after the apartment complex, to this day I still cant properly breath I am on a course of terbinafine oral, and have to regularly take prednisone. All of this has left me in a place of not really being able to function or maintain any sense of normalcy since. I do still have most of the info and journal entries and is something I always keep in the back of my head should I ever find myself in a place where I can mainatin things again (atm though I have taken a break from owning large groups of rats since moving from the apartment dont have a real safe way to set up a rat colony nor the space to set up a rat room, a flat small apartment was kinda perfect, a two story town hours with multiple electrical devices and places they couldnt potentially get into a lot less secure and a single room would be a good set up but I live with two other people Lol so space is limited (the two other people my fiancee and my brother, she wouldnt mind, but my lil bro may deff kill me LOL) At the moment we have 1 rat 4 ferrets, Cat, Chihuahua, and a Rabbit. As we rent the town house in our landlords own words 'No more animals until you reduce your numbers,' though thats also what they said before the 4th ferret and the rabbit LOL Our landlords are actually my parents they kinda took shit into their own hands after the ordeal with the apartment and got this townhouse then went through it and tore it to shreds to install a good air circulation system to keep moisture to a minimum to prevent mold build ups. So we are renting from them with the idea of future ownership once mortgage is paid off with the other maintenance fees.

GET YOUR OWN HOUSE, and care for them! Medical bills for rats are no joke seriously, if your parents are not willing then, thats better for the rat.

also you need two or more!! rats cannot live alone!!