bruh same

0-0Wowie!That's so cool! My little one was a special behavioural case so he is housed alone but I can't wait to get more rats!!

My mom says AHHHH NO YOU GUAGH when she sees my rats 😂

@@freyae6883 that probably means you have to get your rat fixed.

@@gamer_rabbit19 We have tryed ever since birth he has been like that he is very social to us but i think he doesnt know he is a rat🤣but he is happy and we have talked to a vet and they said sometimes that just the case for them.

Graceo Cakeo 😂😂

for me, it was pet raps

My is heart????!!!! 😂

Graceo Cakeo Thats amazing 😂

Pet "rights"

Same lmao

Haha me as well!

Same lmao

There are probably exceptions if you're adding just 1 to a communal cage.

I'm doing that to lol

No need to quit your job 😂 if you haven’t already, getting them a friend so they’re not lonely is a good place to start 💕

😂💀

Emiology hello! Can you please help me I am getting 2 rats but should I get a cage and use cat litter for the bottom? Will it be the same or no..?

TeaTime please don’t use cat litter, rats have very very sensitive respiratory symptoms, you can use fleece but I prefer paper bedding

@@milktae9068 you can use some yesterday's news or back2nature

suzypenguin like from ratatouille Remy cool

My rat is called remi too😇

I have a rat named remy too!

I have a rat named remy too!

Ok now I feel bad about naming my rat Remy! I was thinking of naming one Remy (from Ratatouille) and the other one Roddy (from Flushed Away, even though that is like a horror film in my eyes 😂). So many people have rats named Remy! I feel like I need to ask permission to name my rat Remy - so, am I allowed?

That was in my head every time I was rewatching whilst editing haha

Whoa! What did you feed her?

Coco c it’s quite common for rats to develop Benign tumours, maybe Millie had a malignant tumour (one that’s spreads and is dangerous) so that’s why she had to be put to sleep.

@@kitchristopher7 If you're replying to me, I was asking about the rat's diet because she lived so amazingly long. I have a theory that these very long-lived rats are fed more fresh food, although it probably is mostly genetic.

VarnaVix oh sorry i missed the part where it said 5-6 years old lol

@I Moved! !thatcatval! How do you know

Mine loves to perch there too :)

i usually would but i am at my dads house rn lol

Mine is on my shoulder owo

My rats usually sit on my shoulder 😆

ABSOLUTELY.

i can do this, does it still mean i need2 rats?

@@hihungryimdad YES

Glass Subliminals Nah. But if you can, do it!!!! For at night and stuff

Hamsters are awesome too!

Michelle Blake it’s nice to know that there are pet stores like this but I hope that other people understand that not all pet shops are really good ones

Sounds like this lady really loves animals!

What's the name of the shop. I'm planning to get two or three rat's on the near future :)

Same here! I live in a big town and all of the pet stores have really good breeders.

Oh, hätte nicht gedacht das ich einen anderen Deutschen hier finde XD Also...hi :D

Yes unfortunately I still hear of schools still doing things like this with rats and I’m so confused on how they get away with it!

My high school did a project just like that! I still have my rat, sadly she lives alone. Would it be worth it to get another rat? I know the process of introducing them takes awhile...

Everyone makes mistakes you didn’t know One mistake won’t end the world

@@taylorlefever623 so, what did you do?

Taylor Lefeverr This probably late but if you didn’t already, yes it would be worth it to get a second rat.

meganthe ratlover so cute rat in the picture

Thats what i fear...i got 2 yesterday and already have the fear...but i dont want the fear to stand between our bond

This is really old and I apologize for how late this is to reply; but male rats have the ability to pull their testicles into their own body. So if your sister picked them up she MAY have thought the male was actually female. I had made that mistake a few times when I was breeding them for pets, and it's honestly something that's fairly easy to do.

I got two hoppers from aquarama but literally all of their rats had the sniffles and they ended up dying. I think their ferrets were sick too.

The ones I bought, I mean.

Omg we want to get 3 boys too once we have bought a house in around a year! Sooo excited already and we are more than 12 months away from owning them

@@medearene6822 I hope you were able to get them!!

gloomytaco same in finland too! in some other countires the whole pet store game is terrible

Same goes for Norway too!

Scandinavia seems like the place to be if you want a rat.

omg this is my other channel nonononokandnd i didnt realize my comment blew up

It takes a lot not to get angry sometimes! But being angry doesn’t help anyone 💕

I agree ! :D

Lauren Mitchell 😢🥺😭🐀

indeed my rats get two hours of playtime everyday. I work nights so i take them out every morning and my partner does that every evening. They need fresh water and food everyday and they need a large cage which is tricky to take with you. So yea it would be a bad idea. Very good of you that you understand it!

Aww! So sweet! :)

Kind of not a good idea, though. What if someone already had 2 rats, one died, and they can only afford 1 new rat and continue having 2. It is very wrong to enforce that rule for everyone because I myself had to return and replace 1 rat, meaning I had to buy 1 new cagemate for my OG rat.

Why is your rat being happy with another a bad thing?

@@jazzyangelflower3344 sorry, what? Confused.

@@jazzyangelflower3344 He can't buy second rat, cz you can't get them seperatly. He have to buy another two, so he will have 3.

It is not illegal, but if you go to a pet store and you don’t have rats, they strongly advise you to keep and buy them together, you can buy one if you have proof that you already have one/ multiple at home.

I did the same thing when I first got rats.

U R ALSO A GOOD KZfaqR

@@user-wm1du1ko4j thank you! 🙊

Omg ilysm

@@VictoriaRaechel I came to this channel because of you. :) I’m debating one wether to get a Hamster, Rat or Parakeet. But before I get them again (by again I mean I had three rats and they died after a good 3-ish years or so. And then I got a hamster poor thing (wait sorry not a thing) I had way to small of a cage🤦🏼‍♀️. It died after a year to a year and a half. I got another hamster and it died within like three days 🤦🏼‍♀️and I’m so mad at myself but I was only like eight then. Then we got more rats and we had to return them because they kept escaping and they literally chewed a whole through the cage. I never had a parakeet or a bird.) I feel so bad for all those animals who I possible mad suffer I’m trying to learn from my mistakes and instead of getting a pet the way I did when I was younger I’m actually researching what to do. You have very helpful information that if I decided I wanted a Hamster I would know what to do. I love your channel and sorry if you cringed hearing a the idiotic things I now face palm 🤦🏼‍♀️about. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Only 65 likes *w h a t*

Yeah 3 years is SO short :(

@Jay L How is that idiotic BS?? Animals from chain pet stores are often given horrible care and come from bad genetic lines, leading to shorter lifespans, higher chance of getting disease, and maybe poor temperament. Dishing out 20 extra bucks to get purebred rats from a good breeder (or adopting from the shelter) is not a big deal. The extra initial cost is nothing compared to the vet bills that come from dealing with an unhealthy rat. And if you are unwilling to pay a little more money to ensure that your pets have a good life, do you really deserve them?

It's a tough one, if you do want to own more rats don't be worried about introducing them, you don't have to be experienced and there's people who can support you. I'd say if one of your rats passes away when the other is younger than two years old then you should definitely consider doing what's best for the rat, whether that's rehoming them to someone who has rats they can live with or getting more rats (unless you don't want to own them again) however if you rat is very elderly say 2+ years and is towards the end of their lifespan sometimes it's too stressful to put them through introductions (eg. If they have health conditions themselves) and a change of environment such as rehoming them would also be stressful so sometimes in that case although it's not ideal, the rat won't be alone for very long as it's towards the end of its life. And I have the rat and ferret cage from petplanet!

Yes! I actually had a video up about this but I was getting a lot of unhappy / hate comments from people who used fleece so I'll have to work on a video again in the future to get my point across better

That's such a shame. It's actually illegal not to give them bedding to dig around in here in Sweden. I understand that it's a tricky thing to take up when it's so popular (to only use fleece)

Everywhere needs to be more like Sweden! My rats love foraging in their bedding for food I think it's the least we can do is provide them with the ability to express their natural behaviours

Imee's World i know this is very late, i use fleece BUT i give them extra high cat litter pans and i put an inch or two of bedding, they adore it and when i clean the pans fully ill sprinkle in seeds so they can dig before they make the box dirty, when its dirty i give them scraps of paper towel and fleece to nest

I plan on getting my rats (when I get them) a box that fits in the bottom of their cage with tons of bedding and putting food in it so they have to find it!

Its okay if you got your pets from pet stores. Its not so much about making these mistakes as it is learning from them for the future and stopping the trend. Just go love your rats because they are amazing none the less

Sams and I feel bad 😞

@@lynnettetaitano7687 thank you, i feel much better 😊

Think of it as rescuing the animals from the shop. I got my two boy guinea pigs from a pet shop, because in the country I live in, there are no guinea pig rescues. But, where are I live, its illegal to get them from mills, and they have to get them from a breeder.

I would honestly talk about rodent / pet mills every day if I could, and if it stopped people from buying animals from there! The majority of rats (and other rodents) I see that are being rehomed or advertised on selling websites are usually all rats that were originally from pet shops, people get frustrated with them because they're terrified and won't warm up to them after months, and I get so many messages from people every week saying that they've tried everything to bond with their rats and nothing is working and wanting me to help, but when I ask 90% of them have been sourced from a pet store so it's no wonder so many issues arise. The majority of small pets needing to be rehomed could be prevented if people just stopped buying from pet stores and getting sick and unfriendly animals :( As terrible as backyard breeders also are, they're probably a lot more likely to have handled their rats and socialised them a lot more than those that come from a pet store. Unfortunately I think there are some people that will never listen, and just want a quick, easy impulse buy from a store and it breaks my heart :(

The Catmother You may have a point when it comes to more expensive animals like dogs, but do you honestly believe that one can make money by selling rats for $30, while still providing them with decent living conditions? A rat breeder needs at least two critter nations (one for males and one for females), and then they need to fill them with hides, bedding, and toys, none of which will last very long if they get chewed. Additionally, watching babies grow up is plenty rewarding for a breeder who loves their animals. Additionally, if you actually did some research on this, you'd find that most good breeders actually have waiting lists, and therefore have no need to sell their animals to pet shops. (Additionally, most good rat breeders want to make sure that their rats end up in good homes, and not as snake food, and would avoid selling to pet shops for that reason alone.) Yes, my first rats also came from pet shops, and I was also lucky to end up with wonderfully friendly, healthy little love bugs. However, that doesn't negate the horrible life their parents probably led. At the time, I didn't know about this, but now that I do, I feel that as a rat lover, I shouldn't knowingly contribute to such abuse, even if I would still get perfectly good pets out of it. Would you buy a dog from a puppy mill just because it would still love you? I hope not.

I don't know any reputable breeder who would sell their animals to a pet store, and have never heard of any I know of doing so. A GOOD breeder would much prefer to oversee the sale of their rats themselves, to ensure they're going to a good home, with proper care, and to also ensure their care whilst they're with them. A good breeder will also want to stay in contact with the person who takes their babies, and be a point of contact if anything goes wrong, and that point of contact probably wouldnt exist if a third party like a pet store was involved. I've tried to get rats from breeders before and been unsuccessful because they're in such high demand (which i guess is a good thing that a lot of people are going to them!) so I wouldn't necessarily say it is easier. I'm also close to a few people in the breeding 'world' and can confirm that each and every one of them just about break even with what they spend on their rats compared to what they would make from selling babies and some of them probably spend more money on it than they get back. Most breeders who are GOOD breeders will breed because its a hobby and a passion and also because they want to improve rats as a species, they do this by selectively breeding what rats they breed to make healthier friendly rats, and the cost of these babies are only really there in place to ensure that they go to a home that is genuine, and usually only really covers the cost of having raised them for 6-8 weeks before hand and providing additional things such as a maternity cage, bedding, food and sometimes vet bills for a large litter. Unfortunately, if a breeder is selling their animals to a pet store, it may well be an easier option for them, because the conditions that they're breeding their rats in are close to as bad as what some of the rodent mills look like and handing the rats over to a store is easier than having future owners view where they breed them (in breeding racks / tubs etc). As many good breeders there are, there's also Backyard breeders who mass breed rats without any consideration to health, temperment, and they may sell their animals to pet stores so I wouldn't rule it out completely! I'm glad to hear that your rats are healthy and friendly though, not everyone is that lucky!

I live in Eastern Europe and there are no responsible rodent breeders in my country. It just isn't a profession. All of my hamsters I have had were adopted from accidental litters, mostly people who bought a female from the pet shop that turned out to be pregnant. I would never get a rodent from a pet shop, but there is also no good option for me to support :(

I don't think not buying pet rats from pet stores will aid in shutting down rat mills because stores also sell feeder rats for people who own snakes.

Rip

Im sorry :(. Hug

She has boys tho

That's true, breeder rats are always best. But sadly, some countries have literally 0 breeders and all you can do is buy petshop or "Craigslist" rats. That's how my home country is.

Where do you live?

@@AlexanderWeixelbaumer wth. Creep

@@mrnoodlesthegreat The OP asked for a good breeder, can't really find one of those without a location, right? They weren't asking for a specific location which actually would have been creepy. They were probably asking for a general area such as a state/province or something

@@mrnoodlesthegreat they wanted to know so just in case they knew any lol

Alexander Weixelbaumer I live in north eastern Ohio. Do u know any??

They don't realize it takes 15 minutes at most to get over all that.

I would not say "most" people, most people are curious and love them in 5 minutes. A Few people have issues with their tail. Yes it takes about 15 minutes to get over that

Very good advice Rainy!!! :)

Do you really think most people would take a sick rat to the vet? Geez

Same!😊

Hows it going you two :)???

It’s coming soon! Just waiting on some new hammocks to be delivered 😍