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Remember folks, today is WORLD RAT DAY! Squee! ;)
So if you own pet rats, give them an extra yogurt drop. And if you see a wild one scurrying by, outside, give him a break today! The small buggers (who are actually smart as a tiny non-barking dog) also just want to get by, just like you and me.

Little thing for a pet rat association, intended to be a mousepad. Well - they did not pay up, I canceled the other planned motifs, so I at least can put this here for entertainment and as little reminder that pet rats are social animals, very much like dogs, and they suffer in solitude, so spend time with them and give them roomies for company. Preferrably other pet rats, NOT snakes!

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Published: 9 years ago

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squeakybunny

9 years ago

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Rats are great pets! Smart, friendly, and hardy.

Frazzle

9 years ago

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@ squeakybunny

Aren't they? And it never gets boring when they are around, especially outside the cage :)

EmmetEarwax

9 years ago

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@ Frazzle

A correspondent told me that her pet rats got out of their cages -one knew how to work the latches, and then they freed the rabbits so they could join in the fun ! She woke up to find chaos !

Frazzle

9 years ago

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@ EmmetEarwax

An ex girlfriend had to secure the cage latches with carabiner snap-hook, because otherwise they would pry open the doors. I can imagine how your correspondent must have felt when she woke up to this. I am amazed the rats freed the rabbits though, as rats are often a little afraid of rabbits.

TeaPartyRabbit

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Frazzle

Rabbits don't have fingers. :(
One of the reasons it's not a rodent. Also a reason they were not able to take over the world. :(

Chucky

9 years ago

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Awwww! Had a few friends with pet rats over the years. Always wonderful critters.

Frazzle

9 years ago

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@ Chucky

They are :)

EmmetEarwax

9 years ago

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@ Frazzle

I did or planned 100 issues of ANIMALS where a family of rats walk among men as men ! I stopped cartooning about 18 years ago. My art did not convey my vision. The series went through a scifi phase even...

You'll find samples in my gallery.

KootieBirdo

9 years ago

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*hugs a rat* ❤

Frazzle

9 years ago

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@ KootieBirdo

Wheeee ^^

EmmetEarwax

9 years ago

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I had pet mice. Males - as females are liable to be already pregnant. They got along for about a month - and then they started fighting, battling. They had to be in separate cages.

You had lab rats, which had been selectively bred to get along. Wild rats or hamsters even hate mice and will kill them -for the same reason a lion will kill a cheetah. Competition.

Frazzle

9 years ago

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@ EmmetEarwax

I never actually had pet rats - but I had the one or other girlfriend who occasionally had them, and always got along well with them. And I have had some experience with wild (and still comparably nice) rats, Rattus Norvegicus, through a project, out in their turf, in nature. Yes, rats don't like mice, and they chase them as food/niche competitors, you are right. All I can say about pet mice is that a friend had two, they got along very well, but the stench was really annoying (and quite unbelievable for such tiny creatures). While pet rats do not smell if you care for them right.

EmmetEarwax

9 years ago

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@ Frazzle

I had two male mice. One was timid, as if he had wild descent. He never liked me, never liked to be handled.The other one, a black male, was savage. Bold as can be.
He started getting out of his habitrail cage, and I could not imagine why I was forgetting to lock him back in. Then I found what he did. He had discovered a crack in the join of a room and a tunnel. He worked on it and finally chewed a hole that he could wiggle through. I had to buy a new room to snap into place after having patched the hole, as a temp stopgap.

He lived to be 3. He never would tolerate the other male, but would chase and bully him.

Frazzle

9 years ago

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@ EmmetEarwax

Thats quite an age for a mouse. Pretty bad-ass :)

EmmetEarwax

8 years, 11 months ago

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How different, how very different these rats are ,from their wild vicious bite-crazy disease-vector relatives.

Frazzle

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ EmmetEarwax

I have had to do with wild rats in scientific context before. They are not so far away from pet ones. They wash themselves as often as pet rats (more often as cats), only get diseases when living in areas with high infection risks (like cats would too, if they would have to live in a sewer f.ex.), and bite as much or as little as pet rats. Some even got pretty tame and curious. Pet rats are not bred far from wild ones, they are very close actually. Some even cross caught wild ones into their breeding program to get the pet rats less affected by cancer and respiratory illness they were genetically engineered to through science (all pet rats originate from a stem of lab rats, a couple decades ago).

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