I do. The rats get treated like pets, but they're for breeding snake food. They still get treats, they still get to come out and run around on the couches and have rides on our shoulders, etc, etc.lol any of you just use tub enclosures?
I used to have rats as pets, and they were great. Some of them lick you, and they love to climb around on your shoulders and play with your hair. I'll always remember when I was in primary school, I had a rat names Sam, and he lived in a cage with my mother's rat whose name was Reggie. They had their own little igloos they lived in, and one day my mother gave them an apple core each. Reggie ran to Sam igloo, shoved the apple core in Sam's face as if to say 'I have this and you don't' and ran away. :lol:
I had more rats a few years ago, they were always very friendly, every time someone walked into the room they'd jump up on the side of the cage and want to come out. As soon as the door was opened they'd run to greet the person. When my Grandmother was still alive she didn't like rats. My mother had Reggie out one day and my Grandmother said "I don't know how you can have that thing running around all over you". She then put her thumb up to the rat, and he wrapped his little paws around it and licked her. She was immediately won over, and from then on when she came around if the rat wasn't out she'd go and get him
They eat anything, and our rats knew the sound of chip packets and would get very excited about it! I loved watching them clean themselves, it was so cute!
lol i want to know if this rumour about wood shavings being bad for there breathing is true or not
can anyone shed some light on the rumour?
Well if there from newspaper they are not wood shavings.Well I have jsut switch to shavings which are meant to be dust extracted ect from shredded newspaper. With the shavings it is alot easier to clean out the tubs but I am noticing sneezing from my rats so am definatly looking at switching back. May try breeders choice will have to look at it.
what do you mean?Well if there from newspaper they are not wood shavings.
im the same , im not a fan or rats or mice [ not scared of them ] just dont like them much - by no means the rats are neglected they have a air con for summer and iv just finished the wood stove for winter heating in there shed .people think rats make great pets however if it wasent for the fact my snake food bill was so massive i would not have rats at all
Depends on the rats Ben, the one I got of you crapped all over me and bit me many times.
However this is the first rat I've owned that has acted that way, the other have never pood nor bitten me, I think it comes down how they have been treated...
im paying $20 for a pack of 5 rats the size of an adult mouse the velvet rats...
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