I don't have rats now but I would always be the first to volunteer taking the rats home from school when I was a kid. I remember my mom's reaction when I carried a rat cage home from school and said, "don't worry mom, it's just for the Summer"! They're affectionate, intelligent, and playful critters. I would create cardboard mazes for them, snuggle with them, carry them around the house in my hoodie pocket. I have always loved rats. My kids have a bearded dragon but if they got a mammal pet I would 100% get a pair of rats. Super underrated pet.
Yes, please tell us how did you end up with 20 rats!!!😀 I had 9 Guinea pigs at one point and my husband put a foot down I have 7 now but lost and got more during the last 5 years
Poor kit kat and Diamond. With you sharing this story they still go on ☺️ I agree wth you about class room pets my science teacher had a Flemish giant rabbit in a small cage he also had a hamster who my heart went out to students would poke him and wake him up by shoving pencils into his cage. I ha disc rat care when I was a teenager but back then you trusted what pet shops said. Do ynot u ever know why pets mart and petco stop selling rats? Not saying they should but just curious I used to see them when I would go to petco but never looked into why. Thanks for sharing your story.
@@hallofrats703 well atkeast im a way they were semi honest. Your first experience with Oreo makes ke giggle "she looked at me and i looked at her ohhh oh no" sounds like me when i first meet a animal i immediately fall in love with. Btw i would love to hear the story how tou ended up with wll your rats ❤
I don't have rats now but I would always be the first to volunteer taking the rats home from school when I was a kid. I remember my mom's reaction when I carried a rat cage home from school and said, "don't worry mom, it's just for the Summer"! They're affectionate, intelligent, and playful critters. I would create cardboard mazes for them, snuggle with them, carry them around the house in my hoodie pocket. I have always loved rats. My kids have a bearded dragon but if they got a mammal pet I would 100% get a pair of rats. Super underrated pet.
Yes, please tell us how did you end up with 20 rats!!!😀
I had 9 Guinea pigs at one point and my husband put a foot down
I have 7 now but lost and got more during the last 5 years
Poor kit kat and Diamond. With you sharing this story they still go on ☺️ I agree wth you about class room pets my science teacher had a Flemish giant rabbit in a small cage he also had a hamster who my heart went out to students would poke him and wake him up by shoving pencils into his cage. I ha disc rat care when I was a teenager but back then you trusted what pet shops said. Do ynot u ever know why pets mart and petco stop selling rats? Not saying they should but just curious I used to see them when I would go to petco but never looked into why. Thanks for sharing your story.
At least in Arizona, they claimed it was because the ones they got in were always extremely sick.
I read on Google that a child got bit by a rat that they had got from Petco and the boy got " rat bite fever " and eventually died.
@@idamcgraw4880 omg that is terrible and scary
@@hallofrats703 well atkeast im a way they were semi honest. Your first experience with Oreo makes ke giggle "she looked at me and i looked at her ohhh oh no" sounds like me when i first meet a animal i immediately fall in love with. Btw i would love to hear the story how tou ended up with wll your rats ❤