Ranking rat varieties (Tier list) 

In Germany Sphynx cats without whiskers are forbidden to breed cause its categorized as cruel breeding, cause they are stripped of one important sense ... I'd love to see a worldwide progress on protecting animals from beeing breeded without regards of their health and good life. Same goes for the hairless rats.

Really laughed at the ‘a rat is a rat’ quotation hahahaha

I think it's important to note that in addition to hairless rats suffering from all the problems of having no hair, or whiskers, they also have no thymus gland. Which makes them severely immune deficient. Hate the fact that it seems to be an accessory rat to show off on Instagram.

All rats are wonderful, lovable and adorable, but after witnessing how many health issues my two naked rescues had, I'm not sure if there is an "ethical" way to breed every single rat variety. Manx are the worst in my opinion, poor ratties need their tails.

One of my first rats was a hairless rat and thought he was so cute …until he started fighting with the other rats and was covered in scratches and scarring. I will never get a hairless rat again because it was quite traumatic seeing my rat so injured after a regular rat scrabble and not knowing how to keep him safe aside from separating him all together.

A rat is a rat, but those dumbo ears… 🐭🥰 Silvermane dumbo… I’m melting…

i was watching this with my dad and he said "hairless rats should be known as Flesh Squeakers" 😂

Also yes, I agree with the manx rat issue of "I dont like the tail so I got a tailess rat" soooo many people Ive talked to say rats are cute but the tail is too creepy. Its the same as with my scorpions. I own a few scorpions (non-lethal) and so many people ask if I had them "de-stinger'ed" no, if I get a scorpion Im not going to chop its stinger off. Thats part of it being a scorpion and they use that stinger not just for defense but to incapacitate their prey and to eat. If you are too scared of a scorpions stinger, dont get a scorpion. If you are too creeped out by a rats tail, dont get a rat.

"The ball sack feeling of them" Plsss that was so funny

Thank you for teaching me how to properly take care of my rats now they’re living happily

Putting ethical breeding questions aside for a moment, I feel obligated to put in a good word for hairless rats. I've had 4 hairless boys and all of them had curly whiskers, similar to a Rex. They were super sweet and affectionate and they just stole my heart as soon as I saw them. I found their skin to be extremely soft and almost velvety, not at all like a ballsack. I can understand why a lot of people aren't taken with hairless rats the way I am, but they still make wonderful pets. Disclaimer: I didn't seek out hairless rats, they just happened to be available.

"That ballsack feeling" 🤣 I've never held a hairless rat, but that is EXACTLY what I'd expect it to feel like 😆

2 of my rats are Silvermane (or also called; Silken). They're SO soft, the fur definitely feels different from other breeds. I hope you'll be able to have a Silvermane/Silken one day

I personally love all rats, especially dwarf rats because they are less prone to health issues like cancer and tumors. I love your tier lost grading since you are so respectful for all rats and also because you don’t sort them purely based from their appearance, but based from health issues they are prone to. Keep up the good work! You are doing so well ❤️

thanks emi for helping me get my pet rats! my parents werent fond of them at first but after i showed them your rats and how clean they really are, i got them!

It’s always so funny how the rats we don’t fall in love with visually can be the ones who become our heart rats. None of the rats I’ve had were chosen because of their variety, it’s always been about timing and the personality of the rats the rescue has available, and how well they might adapt to my current mischief. I never thought I would have a “naked” rat, they just never appealed to me, but when I was looking to get a companion to two others who had lost a buddy, the rescue I adopt from had been given a number of double rex rats from a guy who bred them as snake food but decided to quit breeding. Since they had so many that needed homes, I adopted a double rex female. She looked hairless (definitely not a “patchwork”), with just a tiny smudge of dark on her nose that made her appear somewhat Siamese, with smooth pale skin everywhere else but without the extra folds of skin most of them seem to have. I never thought I would think a hairless-looking rat was attractive, but she was GORGEOUS! Her ears were especially long, her nose had a slight bend to it that made her appear somehow like I think an Egyptian Rat Goddess might, and she moved in graceful jumps, like a porpoise on land. She was regal looking, a true beauty. I miss my little nakie Gabby every day.

Rats are such underrated animals. I'd love to own then some day! It's amazing what emiolgy does for rats ! Also I'm early🥰💖🌺

Im getting rats in 1 week! Im so excited! I've researched for so long and im so excited, to distract myself from waiting, I watch all of your videos over an over again! Im very excited and I love your shirt :). Also you were talking about a Russian blue Dumbo, thats one of the varieties im getting! His name is Jason :)

A rat is a rat - Emiology 2021

Idk what it is but I wouldn’t ever get a dwarf rat because i LOVE holding onto my chunky boys 😂

I've always got roans as I noticed the females have less of a tendency to develop tumors, in my personal experience, in comparison to other breeds. Over the last five years alone of strictly owning roans, only one developed a tumor.

I think brown wild rats are the ones that look the prettiest. That being said, wild rats belong in the wild, they're not pets. I never found hooded, husky or dumbo rats that pretty, but after having adopted and bonded with rats who looked like that, it's impossible not to love all rats that remind me of them

Please do a mouse version!!!

I love your taste in rat breeds, and the "a rat is a rat," and it is SO true. I don't have rats, but I have two female mice, Chai and Bamboo. I love them so much, and in the future I really want rats. I think you're the best youtuber ever! Thank you for making your videos to educate us all! 😊😊😊😊

i had a trio of silvermane dumbo rexes 🥺🥺 my dad used to call them my “three mouseketeers”. i loved them so much. they were SO soft and sweet, my time with them was treasured greatly. their names were nochu, mochi, and piper. they’re definitely my favorite mix of any varieties and i miss them sm!!!

me: aww this will be fun - it's cool to see how people's opinions differ my heart rate, once badger gets top tier: OH THANK GOD THE STRESS THEY WOULD BE DISRESPECTED

There are so many varieties I love. If I could get any, my dream rat would ve either a black Berkshire dumbo Rex ( with or without blaze) or a Dalmatian. I love black and white rats, but I agree with the hooded being just too common.

I just got a pair of albino rats. There are exactly zero rattery’s in Alaska. The only rats allowed are albinos and the only option I found was buying a pair of very young rats that were destined to be feeders from a chain pet store. I’ve only had them for a week, but they are taking to their cage, play fighting, popcorning, and coming to my hand and licking baby food off of my fingers. One is crawling all over my hand and the other baby is licking it off of the spoon…we’re making progress, slowly but surely. I have a play area marked off and once they’re used to being picked up we will begin work on getting used to that. I really appreciate your videos, I’ve learned so much about rats and their care/proper living space etc. if there was any other option I would not have gotten them from the pet store but, living up here this is the only option I have atm. Thanks again!

Never seen burmese rats before, such a lovely colour 🤎

Oh the ball sack feeling comment made me laugh out loud. Never thought of hairless rats as ball sacks.

Don’t mind mejust liking the video immediately so I can watch after I get out of work. 😊🐁🐀

I think I prefer top eared rats to dumbos (although I ❤ both). I just feel they're less common now days. I have a top eared roan and a blue dumbo. Love them so much ❤

I just got a feeder rat that looks just like humbug and he is dumbo. He is a pet don’t worry

"ballsack feeling"...OMG, that was hilarious.

Your preferences are almost identical to mine. Only difference is I adore hoodeds. I don't know why, just love. Siamese rex Dumbo is my ideal, though.

Fun video! One of my mischiefs includes 3 hooded rats. My little pack of oreos 😅 it was interesting seeing all the different patterns!

The poor agoutis 🤣

I got a silvermane rat by ”accident” and I’m so in love with her! I got a dumbo agouti and after about a week living with her and her fur changing I realized she is a silvermane. She is so lively and energetic❤️❤️

I had Russian Blue Dumbo rats. I also found a baby brown rat which fell from my nephews attic who's eyes were still closed. I thought I was being clever when he was found and thought it was a she, so I named her Tara', which is 'A Rat' backwards. But when I took it to the vet to check for disease etc he said it was a he...but Tara, the name stayed. I kept him till he died at over two years old. Great to see your channel up and running in your new home Emi. Moose

I laughed really hard at the hairless rats being compared to balls 🤣🤣 spot on!

rats without any eyelashes or whiskers is cruel in my opinion, I ended up rescuing four of those, unfortunately two suffered half of their lives from problems in their eyes, when they became blind they couldn't really do everything like the others from lack of whiskers. It was horrible. The two others were adopted by happy families, but I'm scared they lived with the same problems.

bit off topic for the video but i discovered something super cool. if you put newspaper (or any paper like thing) rip it up, put it at the bottom, they will bring it to one of thier many beds. This most likely will keep their brains active and my rats personally enjoy having it

Please do this with mice/cats!

"A rat is a rat." Love it

“I love Siamese rats so much it there was a category above I love they’d be there” Me: *looks at my Siamese rat Moxie lovingly*

When I got my rat, he was white with a tan hood. The tan completely molted away and now he has a brown nose marking. I think he's a Himalayan

Hey I love your videos!! huge thanks for getting me into rats, soon ill get some of my own!

i used to not care for agouti coloured rats when i just saw them in pictures. but THEN i met some agouti rats irl, and turns out they are soooo cute!!! pictures really don't give them justice

I cant stop laughing at how she said that hairless rats give her a ballsack feeling ☠️☠️ IM DEAD

Omg i wish you could see my ADORABLE pumpkin siamese. She is SO daft, that literally my other rat (Sage the husky) will sleep on her, and pumpkin is completely oblivious. It is so cute.

I had to learn the hard way with hairless animals. I love how they look and feel but I've had to accept they probably aren't ethical to breed/keep. My mom has several hairless rats, I think the first one was pretty healthy but didn't live as long as he should have, the others got respiratory problems. My parents had a hairless cat and he got an infection in basically his whole digestive system and died at 4. I had a hairless mouse recently and I found her dead at only 4 months old, I think she got too cold but she also just never thrived and was thin. I love hairless animals but I guess we just shouldn't mess with nature so much.

I got SO HAPPY when she put the black eyed Siamese rat at the top because I have a 4 week old Siamese and she is the sweetest furball.

I have a Harley Siamese, that was born with a little nub instead of a full tail. Not only did she struggle with skin issues for a bit but she wasn’t very graceful climbing! All is well now !!!

We have 6 boys, 5 brothers and one being their cousin. Tumnus - Black Dumbo (smallest of them all) Boom - Husky/Badger Dumbo Bean - Siamese Red Eyed Dumbo (Cream/White w/ dark nose) Kipling - Siamese Red Eyed Dumbo (he was originally cream with half of his face being white but as he’s gotten older he is now completely white) Peanut - Black Top Eared Grinch - Siamese Ruby Eyed Double Rex ( he is the youngest and cousin to the other 5, the fur he has is cream at the moment but turning white as he gets older so he looks naked most of the time) The 5 brothers are 13 weeks and Grinch is 9 weeks. They are all so friendly and loving to each other and us. This is my first time owning rats and my experience so far has been nothing but pleasant

I’ve had every type of pet rattie…and I have to say that I loved them all. I do have an opposite opinion regarding the hairless rats. I’ve had many hairless rats, and only had a problem with one. Her name was Salmus. She was born with a little bit of hair covering her body, but as she grew, her hair went away. She was the MOST amazing little critter. She was so intelligent, friendly, loving, and she had a long great life, living to the age of 2 years and 8 months. About 3 months b4 she passed away she got a mammary tumor. I took her to the vet, to get it removed, but the vet was hesitant bc of her age, saying that she may not survive the surgery. So he suggested that I take her home, and just let her live what life she had left, or he could euthanize her for me.I was devastated😢 Salmus during her life would take care of the other baby rats I had by always nursing them…and she wasn’t even pregnant?! But she always produced milk and would feed the baby rats when the other mothers would reject them. (Just to note …I rescued rats for a period of 5 years, until I could find them GOOD homes, and the ones I could not find homes for I kept, since 2012) I have to say that I prefer the hairless critters. I have never experienced any more health issues from my hairless ratties than from the ones who do have hair. But all of my hairless ratties always has whiskers..some had pink eyes, and some had black eyes. But by far I will say that they all were much warmer body temperature than the others, but other than that, I never had any more health issues than my other ratties. Only Salmus , with her tumor in old age… But I would and have taken pet ratties over any other type of pet.I love all animals and believe they all deserve to be fed, loved, interacted with, and treated as gifts from God and they deserve to be treated as such. We all have our preferences, and I fully understand that. It’s just wonderful that so many people are starting to understand that rats are not these vicious creatures alone with the other bad raps they get…so whatever type of rattie people prefer, I’m ALL FOR IT…as long as they love them and give them the BEST home and LIFE that they deserve ❤️🐀🐁❤️RIP Salmus, Pow, and Mr. Wuby (My Hairless Ratties)

I love Rex rats I didn't know the term hairless meant without eyelashes or whiskers! My "hairless" rats have about as much fur as a human in general I would never want a poor baby who doesn't have whiskers!

I think any rat with fur and tail would all go into the top one for me I just love all fur varieties. All rats are good chonkers though ❤️

The first two rats i ever got were both roans, and it was so cool to see how they went from almost full grey to 100% white. Ive mainly only ever had your rat of the mill common rats like Roans and Black fancys, but they make up for that with their personalities, and thats all i need.

I've bought 4 different sets of babies since owning rats and I've also found that with each pair the girl I picked specifically for her appearance never becomes one of my 'faves' in terms of personality

I love my hairless rats. They loose their hair and grow it back, they are super sweet and i love them

I love roans. Unfortunately, my local breeder's roan line seems to be unreasonably smart so my roommate has called a moratorium.

Dumbo rats are my favourite, them ears 😍 they make my heart melt 💕

We actually have a dumbo rat. He was adopted with three others by us almost 2 weeks ago. We called him Merlin. He's so cute. I didn't actually realise he was a dumbo rat until the day after they came home with us. He's grey and white (head is completely grey, body mostly white but with odd grey patches). He's a proper little porker too. You can definitely feel the difference between him and his brothers when you pick them up. Love them all to bits.

I just got 3 new babies from a double Rex mother and a Rex father, they are all pretty bald! That being said, I wasnt purposefully seeking out semi-hairless rats, and although they are very cute I do worry for their sensitive skin.

I got the cutest rat from my breeder last month...he's a curly haired dumbo dwarf who's gray and white...adorable.

I had bought Harley rats without knowing their health issues (I had stupidly assumed it was the same as a standard fur rat) and my 2 boys both needed up with bad skin issues and they don’t really have the behavior I would had liked when I bought them, the one was very bitey then my other one had late onset hormonal aggression (it presented its self when he was like a year old) and a few other behavioral issues, but their skin is so difficult to keep decent, they also both lost a lot of fur due to their skin issues. I’m taking a break from rats after my last guy passes, but I will never get Harley’s or other fur types without doing my research first, though I do plan to keep just standard fur dumbos when I do go back to keeping rats (also, my boy now has been given lots of attention and he has plushies and a lot of fleece in his cage to try to keep him from feeling so lonely. As of right now he’s doing pretty well adjusting to the solo life, although I feel awful about it. I’m not able to foster or barrow any rats and I don’t know anyone close that I trust enough to take care of him or that also owns rats)

I’m getting two rats next week, one of em is black with white lights the others a black and white rex and I already love them more than life itself

Thankfully naked rats without whiskers are illegal to breed in Germany, it takes away one of their most important senses

I'm so sad hairless rats have health issues, I think they are the cutest things ToT

I'm getting two silvermane girls this fall and I'm so excited! They're such a gorgeous variety.

Also I'm sorry but I need to know where you got your frog shirt. It's wonderful.

My parents bred a double rex rat(her name is remi) and she had some of the strangest babies I had ever seen. One of them named stinky is completely white with a mixture of slightly curvy/wavy, course, and regular fur. The second one Marla is completely brown with a white belly with rex fur patterns. And the last one booger is a rex rat that looks just like the one in the picture. They're all really cool and probably just rex/double rexes with diffrent colors. I love them a lot.

Video: "I don't like these rats because they're like ballsacks." My innocent, friendly, clean ballsack: "awwww" My wife: "BAAAHAHAHAHAumm no comment. .............[snicker]"

I think you do the best content for rats... I would like some and I've been researching for days and I usually land on your videos. You mention a lot of things I wouldn't have thought of. I was even wondering about breeds today and then this popped into my feed. I might try to source some Silvermanes if I can... I live in Finland so my options for breeders are probably extremely limited. We seem to have the same taste in rats, except I prefer straight whiskers over the curly whiskers

As someone in his mid 50's I got my first rat when I was 10 or 11, just be glad for all the varieties, when I got mine, the choice was limited to, albino male or albino female.

Current rats, offspring of a male Black Berkshire Dumbo and a female patchwork Double Rex (they got “friendly” when they were left in a bucket with two other male rats and meant to be snake food, but when Covid lockdowns happened they were abandoned and the snake owner’s roommate brought them to the rescue). I adopted “dad” and when we found out the females babies were definitely his, I adopted his five sons. They are all Rexes as follows: Black top-eared Irish, Beige top-eared Irish, Blue top-eared Berkshire, Blue Dumbo Berkshire, and Blue Dumbo what-the-heck-are-these-markings (umm… mismarked variegated, appropriately named “Rorschach” - Rory for short). Each one a playful, loving heart rat. Don’t know how I got so lucky!!!

Loved this! ANd your shirt is so cute where did you get it?

Never noticed how many rat types are named after cat breeds.

Yesterday I was telling my friend about how I was rats soon and I told her some facts about how they are clean and intelligent and how they can get tumors if not cared for properly (bad idea on my part) and she said “good, they should die” and I was so so shocked because people keep demonizing rats and I’m scared she’s like that

The mouse cage behind you looks so good!

rat racism tier list

A good way to get the skrunklyness of hairless without the lack of whiskers is double rex rats! They are kinda bald sometimes and very cute

One of my first rats was a topaz! They are so pretty! Just realised that I think all of the varieties of my first rats are super pretty ^^

Rats tails are so lovely, they are the thing I love most about my new girls. Why would anyone hate an animal for its tail... Most animals we keep as pets have tails. Ppl need to wake up and stop basically mutilating animals by removing tails.

Hey emiology I LOVE your channel and i have watched the ranking rat video a thousand times your rats are so cute you are so nice I love your channel😍

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i got my dumbo girls about 2 weeks ago! one is a black hooded rat (bee) and the other (biscuit) is a full golden color with red eyes!

they all deserve LOVE LOVE LOVE rank

1:55 I used a black and white mouse in elementary school the black one was by far my favorite at first but the white was super sweet and the black one refused to interact unless you were feeding him so over time my favorite switched

i have a husky rat and he went completely white except for a spot around his eye. he looks so cool

I so badly want dumbo rats, any rats with hair and a tail will do me, but dumbos are by far my favouriteeee

omggg i have 4 dwarf rats and I love them so much😭❤️ They are SUPER energetic compared to standard ratties and at over 1 year old, they all run all over the place and are crazy little babies🥰

my rats are much happier after watching your vids you have helped me so much thankyou so much I love ur content I love u

i have two ruby eyed, a siamese and a black rat (he has a little white patch on his tummy) and they are the loves of my life. cant live without them. thankyou for teaching me how to give them the best life i can

A space pod chair (improved bean bag) with waterproof outside might be a fun chair there.

Hairless Rats are my absolute favorite, but I also agree with your opinion regarding their health and the ethics of breeding them. I love them still, it’s not their fault they have health issues. 😔 I also really like the Giant Cloud Rat (it’s not a domesticated variety but they’re adorable and I highly recommend looking them up)

I don't know why but I just love the shape of the eyes and ears of the Husky rats! I can't even describe the feeling. Definitely rats that I will be looking for in the future.

ive never seen a husky in person so its suprising for her to say its common but then again i am in the us

My new favorite are Martin’s! I know these probably got looped in with the red eye rats but I do feel like they’re a little more unique. This was an awesome video I love seeing everyone’s different opinions :)

I adopted two rats that were not well taken care of prior to me taking them, and they honestly look like they came from the sewer. LOL I love them anyway. I'm still trying to tame them.