i'm just apprehensive if it would be the aforementioned as accepting a pet hamster. i use to accept a pet hamster and it would accumulate me up at night bitting on the cage bars. and it seemed to account and pee alot if i took it out of it's cage to play with it. and if i didn't play with it for awhile it would overlook who i was and try to bit me. so i just wish to apperceive added about pet rats befor i buy one. and what i wish to apperceive you wouldn't acquisition in a book.

Answers :Ah, you'll adulation a pet rat! They don't chaw on the cage bars,
they're accessible to play any time. My pet rat, Romeo,
is a licker. I yield him out to play and he licks my hand-
he thinks I'm just a bigger rat and he's admonishment me.

Answers :Yeah. I'd say they're appealing abundant the same. If my pet rat, Vann was adolescent he'd consistently ascend him cage and accomplish babble arena about at night (like his wheel, baptize bottle, etc.). I bankrupt my abate endure summer and was ashore bench for about 2 months and had to accept my dad yield affliction of him. Afterwards I healed up, I approved to play with him and he'd chaw me. They're angel afterwards you've played with them and they've gotten acclimated to use.

Answers :I had pet rats all through college. I couldn't accept bodies or dogs in my apartments, so I had rats instead. I admired them, and I anticipate they accomplish abundant bigger pets than a hamster. Actuality is a account of what I would accede the pros and cons of befitting rats.

Pros:
>Rats are actual amusing and adulation to collaborate with people. If I came home, my rats would run to the aperture of their cage and get aflame for me to authority them.
>Rats don't usually chaw if handled from a adolescent age.
>Rats are acute and can apprentice tricks like a dog!
>Rats are simple to affliction for if you accumulate their cage apple-pie (change the clutter already a week)
>Rats are bargain to buy and affliction for

Cons:
>Rats accept actual abbreviate activity spans (1-2 years), and are seceptable to a lot of diseases like colds, cancer, and derma problems
>Rats are acute and will escape from their cages (mine would consistently get out at night and ascend beneath the covers of my bed)
>If rats breed, they accomplish A LOT of babies
>Some humans absolutely abhorrence rats and will aberration out if they see one active around.

Answers :rats are AMAZING. i've had abounding and they are just like accepting a dog!! they are so abundant smarter than hamsters, i've accomplished my rats their names and they appear if called, they aswell fizz like a babe if they are happy. they adulation to appear out and play! amuse attending to shelters and adopting first! petfinder.org is a abundant website to use.

Answers :rats are wonderful! I accept 5 myself :3

rats are amusing creatures and MUST be housed in aforementioned sex pairs to reside a abounding and blessed life. Human accompaniment does not analyze to the 24 hour accompaniment a rat would accretion from a cage mate.

Also, rats crave at atomic 2 cubic aboveboard anxiety per rat (so a brace would crave a 4 cubic aboveboard bottom cage) to accomplish abiding a cage is acceptable analysis the ambit of the cage with a rat cage calculator.

Rats aswell crave vet affliction if they get ailing and because rats are advised exotic, vet bills can be actual expensive. I acclaim that if you do not accept the money to yield a rat(s) to the vet (which can be anywhere from $43 just for a appointment to $500 to accept a bump removed) again this is not the pet for you.

Rats aswell crave at atomic 45 mins of your time accustomed as they are acutely amusing creatures (as hamsters do not apperception getting larboard alone for at atomic a day or two during the week).

anyhow actuality are some links to get you started with your analysis ;3

CAGE CALCULATOR:http://www.rattycorner.com/odds/calc.sht...
WEBSITES: http://www.petbrags.com/profiles/blog/sh...
CAGES:http://www.petbrags.com/profiles/blog/sh...
TOYS and CHEWS:http://www.petbrags.com/profiles/blog/sh...
LEVELS:http://www.petbrags.com/profiles/blog/sh...

a acceptable rat appointment is goosemoose.com

also, if you acquisition out that rats are the pet for you, I acclaim you try petfinder.com for rats that accept been alone at shelters or rescues, or try craigslist for humans who are no best able to affliction for their accepted rats (do not get rats from humans on craigslist who brand for money, These types of humans should not be supported) If not to accept try to acquisition a breeder. I do not acclaim pet aliment as they get rats from baby beastly mills. Mills can affliction beneath about the animals and added about ancestry them like crazy to accomplish money.

Good Luck!

Answers :My pet rat acclimated to drive me batty at night by active on it's wheel. Now I yield it down at night and the accord and quiet is great.

Any pet needs circadian attention. One hour a day minimum is recommended for rats. Baby animals will lose their accordance if not handled consistently (rats will stop pooping and peeing on you if handled daily). If you don't accept time for them you shouldn't get one.

Answers :Hamsters can't see actual able-bodied and they are not the a lot of active and sure-footed of critters, so they ability calmly abatement off tables and counters, possibly actively abasing themselves. Rats don't accept this problem.

Rats do chaw through things if they get apathetic or if they wish something bad enough. I've had some that chewed their own baptize canteen to pieces, bed, and aliment dish. Some will chaw if you don't authority them afterwards a few weeks.

Here is an commodity for you to read. Amuse see the "Before you buy" section.

http://www.petrat.info/

Good luck!

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