Rats

I have only recently this year become a rat owner but they have made a big impact on me and I would always have them as pets as they are very intelligent, fun, social rodents. I've had gerbils and hamsters in the past but rats are on a different level. When walking into the room where their cage is they often come out to greet me and love nothing more than to spend time riding around on your shoulder or in my pockets. They all have learnt their names and will play chase with my hands, one of my girls loves to lick me to death. Rats do have a bad press for being dirty and spread disease but they are nothing like this. Rats should be kept in single sex groups ...  Read the complete review

I had a pet rat once. His name was Norman Humphrey Bogart Bruff. There's no excusing it, I was eccentric as a boy. Norman cost just £4 but brought me a lot of joy. There are a few things I would like to point out about rats: 1) They smell- and I mean SMELL. They're big, and mice are sweet compared to them. Give them a big cage and they just smell more. My whole room stank for years! 2) They wee - Norman got into my teddy collection and peed over the lot once, meaning it all went in the bin. They wee (it seems) nearly as much as mice. 3) Their tails scare people- they look like slowworms and people hate them. I never understood ...  Read the complete review

Rattus is the latten name for rats. I work for a pest control company in Belfast. Rats are deemed as a pest they are quite destructive. The reason for this is there teeth keep growing so they need to naw at stuff to keep there teeth long this causes them to be destructiful. Theyare very clever rodents. They are not really good with there sight but the make up with there sense of smell. They also are very dirty as they do carry some disease and the main one is weils disease which can be caught by there urine if you come into contact with there urine it is very dangerous. The do go to the toilet about seven to eight times a day and there poo would be in a shape ...  Read the complete review

i love rats! out of all the pets we have owned i loved these the most ( and we've had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, gerbils, hamsters, rabbits, turtles, mice and ducks.) they are easily the most intelligent small animal you can buy. i brought two males from a pets at home store (i think, this was over a year ago now!) they were around 8 pound each i believe. i have a black rat and white one. they do need fairly big cages thou and will need to be handled quite a lot to be happy. they are fantastic animals but they are much more work than other small animals, like hamsters or mice. you can get rats balls and wheels but mine never enjoyed those. they like big cages with lots of ...  Read the complete review

Rats are popular pets because they are quite intelligent rodents that are cheap to buy, cheap to look after and come in lots of different colour and pattern mutations. Although many still hate rats because of ignorance and fear passed on from previous generations. Pet rats are now sewer rats, they have been raised in clean conditions and should therefore be as free from disease as your average rabbit, gerbil or budgie. A male rat makes a better pet than a female rat, the males are generally more robust and quiet, whereas the females are smaller and much quicker - less easy to tame and less docile in general. If you are buying from a Pet shop like Pets at Home ...  Read the complete review