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anyone else ever had a pet rat? i swear they are the best pets. i had a male blue rat named hoover.

I had 6 rats in total. Rats are awesome.

But having just one rat on his own isn't right, man. A rat needs to be with at least one other rat in order to not be totally unhappy.

I had one once. He was called Vilperi. But my little brother killed it by putting poison to it's food, when I told him to watch it while I was on vacation. That sick b a s t a r d!!

My friend had a rat... It had huge balls.

u could poison ur little brother

my rat had huge, huge balls. but yeah i got it when it was a baby and when it got older i bought another friend for him and also i let them run loose around my bedroom so im pretty sure they were happy the only problem was they would leave little food stashes all around my room like under the couch and dresser and stuff lol. and they would steal candy.

here is a pic

i once had a hamster named George. But my older brother took it back. then I found a little brown mouse, but my cat ate it. then I got two, but thewy escaped and had beautiful babies. problem is, my house is full of them. (I'm exagerrating a little bit.)

I used to have a white rat named Miss Precious. Unfortunately they just don't have long enough life spans for me.

i think they only live like 2 years but its worth it they are great pets. i used to take mine on walks they would sit on my shoulders

I had a rat once, Seifer,
but he was ill very young and passed away six month after I got it..
Never had another after
Maybe I'll get a ferret, they're good pets too !

The only pet I ever want is a pet dragon.

Unfortunately, since dragons are mythological, I'll stick to a pet cat.

there are bearded dragons, not really dragons but as close to one as possible.

Or a platypus ! so strange

In total, I've had 8 rats. 2 when I was 16 or something, and 6 over the past few years.

They really make great pets They're very sociable, terribly funny and smart, you can basically teach them anything, if you're REALLY patient. And they are just irresistible cute when they eat or sleep, and that's basically what they do all day

It's too bad they live for such a short time though, but like all the crappy things in life, that's all due to us humans, since pet rats stem from lab rats. That's why they die of all those horrible tumors and stuff

sleep all day??? mine was friggin hyper when it was out it would just run around my room like a little maniac all the time

Yeah, when they get out they have all the energy in the world (and love to nibble on everything I own...)but yeah, basically, when they've got nothing better to do, they sleep.

Except for one time when of them broke loose and hid chocolate easter eggs which were on the table everywhere! Then she was pretty worked up all day wooOO Sugar

yeah thats another thing, when in their cages all they do is plot an escape. mine would take candy all the time but he actually had the nerve to try and steal an ENTIRE hot pocket from me once! i was eating one and had the other one on a plate on my bed and he comes and grabs it and starts dragging it away so i just slapped him and took it back lol. also once my friend came over and he had a bottle of whipped cream (it wasnt for *us* i swear) but he decided for some reason to feed some to my rat, and that was probably the most hyper i ever saw him. yeah, it wasnt good. do you have any pics of your rats? what kind are they?

I have LOADS of pics, but I'll have to upload them first.
Sadly, they're all gone now.

I've had them in all colours and sizes First one was a husky, grey with a white v-mark on it's head and white flanks, called Alcohol (yes, I was 15...) her friend was actually my sister's, called Rachel (bluh), and she was a Japanese Hooded, brown with white.
Then we had Satan (haha), which had their original 'wild' colour and was really big and active, so, since a many people are afraid of rats, the name seemed appropriate. She was very cute though
Puk was another husky, and Boo (after the hamster of Baldur's Gate) was champagne-coloured, with dark-red eyes.
Then we had Jappie, another Japanese Hooded one, she was very darkbrown/black and white.
And two 'rats on loan', V'Aylen, a himalayan (white with a small black spot on it's nose) and Cirea, a cinnamon-coloured one.
Woh, this must be awfully boring to read But hey, you asked for it

I have LOADS of pics, but I'll have to upload them first.
Sadly, they're all gone now.

What is gone? The pictures or the rats?

i want an all brown fat one like you see on horror movies but i cant ever find one the pet stores usually only have all white but i had one that was gray and white and one that was brown and white

Never had them but I used to know someone who did. Remember a lovely brown one called Teasel.

They also kept stick insects, giant African snails, and several different varieties of chicken!

lol i had some snails in my aquarium before but my catfish would eat them

You shouldn't get your rats are the pet shop... They're bred by heartless people who don't give them any attention and who do not socialize them at all. Those rats tend to die of terrible diseases even more than other rats.
The reason you find so many white rats in these stores is because the breeder uses the same rats so many times that they eventually lose all 'good' genes. Albino rats usually have trouble seeing, tend to get cancer and other tumors much easier and have a worse health overall.
If you want to get rats, get them at a rattery, where people lovingly raise them, and watch the parent rats for health and condition. Also, the parents aren't used as breeding machines, which is nice And you're more likely to find a fat brown one like we had, since they have more different species.

i dont think they have "ratteries" in the usa just big corporate pet stores petsmart/petco and walmarts

yeah, I had my rat in a pet shop,
he was just a baby so I raised him with lots of care and I managed to "socialize" him, so he was sweet, clean, and liked humans.
But he was an albino, and just as said Joycilaanie, they tend to have quite bad health, and he contracted a disease 5 months after and died after one month.

So now if I want another pet rat, I have friends of mine who breed them, raise them a little, then they keep 'em or ask friends to do it. Better that way.