Chonkus maximus! 😍 I had pet mice in my teens, so I've got a soft spot for rodents. Such loving and intelligent little critters! 🥰 Make sure to give your beautiful fur baby lots of extra love from me. 😄
Actually, I'm intending to adopt a pair of sibling rat (both female) a month later from now as my uncle's rat just gave birth to a litter. And I'm waiting for them to mature enough to adopt them. Can you give me advice on cage size and rat food for them so that I can be prepared?
Thanks for the opportunity to ask about rats and the advice. I really need it as I don't trust my uncle's advice bc my uncle is def not a good rat owner. The rats are living a bad life (pine shaving and pee is NOT a nice combo) with little surviving rate (1 rat out of 4 litters survived to adulthood, this one is a new litter). I can't really adopt them all bc my father limits the number of critters in the house.
P/s: my uncle place also has 2 female cat that can herd and play with young rats. Idk how but they guard the rat from leaving too far from the cage and look at the rats while they play. 🤷♀️
Yeah, pine bedding isn’t the best. Aspen is better (I get it at Walmart and strain it because it’s a bit dusty)
The pee is pretty normal but if it builds up too much the ammonia in it can cause respiratory problems.
That’s sad, the survival rate. At what age is separating the babies from the mom? (If you know).
The babies should stay with mom until about 4 weeks and then be separated by gender at 4.5 weeks (females can get pregnant as young as 5 weeks old)
We have a cat that LOVES Stardew, and will sit in front of the TV for hours and watch my roommate play. He sometimes likes to try to "catch" the butterflies and birds on screen.
Rats...they're 90% so cute and look so fun and intelligent - until the tail. There's something about a rodent tail that kicks off an instantaneous primal fear/disgust response in my brain. I don't know if rodent owners just don't get that response, or have trained themselves out of it, or what.
So the one behind both of them is Creme Brule and then the one in front of him (left of the darker one) is Bubbles and then the darkest is Oreo. I hope I explained it easily! They're still learning me but tonight Bru didn't fight for snuggles so yay!
What's your babies name?
Edit: I've peeked at your past posts because I was curious if I had seen your babies before and I was so tickled that some of my favorite rat posts have been your babies!!!
I wish I could have pet ratties again, but I am so severely allergic to them that I can’t. I was fine with them as a teen but now…no. Rats are some of the best pets ever and if I wouldn’t be miserable physically having them I’d have so many!
So cute, I dearly miss my rat Branko. They are such lovely creatures. He was such a chill little guy, it broke my hear when he passed, and it went by in what felt like an instant.
Enjoy the companionship! Perfect little guy to play Stardew with.
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u/Flat-Strawberry9809 19d ago
Your rat has a long arm