Yeah like can't they see the rat is massive compared to the ball and can barely move

it blocks their senses

Kitten Mimi OML I see you everywhere!

Rachel Aylmer and not only that it could also hurt there tails like small wheels can 😕

Horse Lady ღ That means you’re everywhere as well lol

I just watched and it's obviously panicking :( I hope it didn't get hurt.

@@Panda-cute The Rat looked so stressed. poor rattie.

@@rylenvanderhoek2834 I just hope they took it out soon and it never had to go back but idk 😭 I would never do that to my girlies

@@Panda-cute Yea- I'm soon getting Rats, and i'm NEVER getting an exercise ball for them! 😧 also, got any rat name suggestions? I'm getting 3 boys!😃

@@rylenvanderhoek2834 ooh! Names I considered before getting my ladies were Hannibal and Lecter for boys. I really like the names Fin, Blue, Rocky, etc otherwise. Try to think of names from stuff you like and then see if it fits your rats’ vibes, is that makes sense. :) it helps a lot! Otherwise what do they look yet if you know? Color based names also good

Definitely good to admit where you messed up! Even when I got my first rats I bought a bottle of rat shampoo and I never used it but I was just as misled in the beginning!

@@Emiology one thing I will say, exercise balls can be ok for very small hamsters as long as they are decent-sized and properly made for safety. We have had several tiny Roborowskis and they love the ball, if we put it near them in their playpen they will dive into it and start running straight away. When they want to come out we trained them to scratch at the sides. Never had any injury or any stress behaviour, they'll often sit and groom for a rest and they learned the way around the entire house while inside. For larger rodents I am totally against it as the air volume they need is so much larger, but the tiny little Robos were happy as anything!

I never personally had a hamster but I would always see people put hamsters in those balls and just think that it's okay and normal.

@@archiecook55 it upsets me when people cram rodents into tiny cages and tiny balls that are obviously too small for them, same with wheels. With a big ball, it's really up to the hamster's behaviour to tell you if they're happy. We never 'put' the hamster in the ball, we always let it go in voluntarily and they always choose to go in, and choose when to come out.

All they care about is profit. You just shouldn't ever support pet stores by purchasing sentient beings there

:)

I also really like that she gave an alternate use instead of wasting money or tossing a piece of plastic.

You got them a new fun bed! :)

Yeah someone gave me one with my critter nation cage. I've now learned that your ready will naturally bond with you and you really don't need to confine them like that. They're very smart and can be trained to come on call. Most times I don't even need to. They just want to be around me anyway.

awsten 😟 knight 😟

thats what I've done x

Cool! I have a hamster and I use my past hamster's old ball as a hideout for her.

I used the tops as guinea pig treat dishes lol

I'm going to do that with a ball for my rats when I get them, I think they will make a cute little bed

rachel i guess I recommend using something to seal the gaps like i used resin to cover a hole in the bottom of my hamsters sand bath and it works really well

Just seal that from the inside~

This is where fabric comes to play u can place fabric and sew on opposite side so their feet don’t get stuck but once chewed u can repair quickly.

Oh Frick I read your comment so wrong (deleted the comment). I agree, this is where fabric comes in place

Unrelated but it's cool seeing another Unus Annus fan here

Literally

I despise rodent balls. Just don't agree with them at all.

Ik it was so sad to see 😭

peruse aclip1234 i agree. some people say they are okay for hamsters as long as its large enough, but putting a hamster in an exercise ball has the same risks

They should just stop selling those, they are just stresfull for the animals.

im getting 2 females somewhen this year. August at the earliest, already ordered the cage which is coming on monday

Danielle MM same i’m getting 2 rats in 1 month and have done research for a couple weeks now!

I’m getting 2 males as soon as I finish researching and save up money. I need to get a second job tho😔

isnt 2 not enough? i remember her saying its ok but not recommended

@@evy7406 idrk tbh, I got 3 instead because 2 didn’t feel like enough for me

2:19 it got it right

My Said wrap owner

haha yes it's said wraps, raps, bats, slats, racks, and once (in a different video) it even said rocks!

“Make them safe for your guts to stand on”

I'm SO glad I never bought one I had in my Amazon cart!

Those freaking things should be discontinued IMO...

Sofia Bartholomew I am glad she said that to because I was going to buy one of the houses for my future rats

Yeah I told one of my friends who got one for her guinea pigs and she didn't listen to me. It died :(

Yeeters Stanley Actually guinea pigs can use them ,mostly as hay racks,but they are safe. Edit:But if they chew too much on it then it becomes a hazard because of the ingredients

Thank you for letting me use it! 💞

Which ones? The Snak Shak?

Nvm ik what u mean

Yes the saucer is good

i know i'm a year late but i would suggest getting a little fish bowl or round plant pot instead! that way you don't have to cover it in fleece and it's a bit more budget friendly!

Dawn dish soap diluted? Olive oil?

TheRatGuru is my personal favorite, but she hasn't posted anything for awhile now. :(

IsamuRatCare is a very educational channel, too :)

@@kaylaposey7616 I love that channel and was so sad to see there hadn't been any new videos for so long. I only recently got rats and was learning so much from her.

how are they doing? i got a rat from my moms ex coworker on tuesday, i was supposed to be watching her but they don't want her and she's in a teeny cage and it smells so bad and she's alone :(

Look at Facebook groups! You might find smaller breeders or rats that need rehomed, that's where I got my boys

@@thaivining5098 thank you for the advice! Though I got my little fur babies back at the end of January. Two girls, sisters, and I love them dearly :) their favorite thing to do is climb into my hoods and sleeves and they would do about anything for a dried banana chip

@@showbizstudios655 oh awesome! Congratulations!!!

Yes I agree about the carefresh..STINKS! I use the Aspen and have done so for 20+years..well, I didn't have rats for almost 10years and recently adopted 4 boys. I tried carefresh initially and thought something might be wrong w the boys bc of the atrocious odor after not even 48hrs. Decided to get some Aspen asap and see if that made a difference before toting them into the vet and WOW..what a difference it makes lol.

Or you could used hemp bedding! I just learn this year for my girls rats. I have tried Carefresh before, it failed.😔 The bedding had roughly texture like dried toilet paper and made my past rat sneezed. It were very dusty as you said!

It's okay we all make mistake now you know💕

unwanted_ mary problem is that its labled as ‘paper’ so i just assumed without thinking too much about it. No idea why they would even make it wool surely its much more expensive:( brands need to be a lot more clear with their labelling

What's the brand?

is it actually silent?

@@juliabuonsante779 no wheel is 'silent' but it's really close. The only thing you hear is the hamster's feet and claws, the wheel itself as an actual all-metal bearing so it's really smooth-running. The smallest size was fine for our Robos, never had any trouble moving it until they got older. They love it, always rush towards that wheel when we put it in after cleaning.

@@SquillagusNiggle how much is it ?

@@cashmerecat7892 search it up and find out🥴

Grape vine wood would be okay but they’d probably destroy fake plants very quickly!

I have a whole video talking about rat food and I mention why I won’t share making my own mix and link to a video showing you how 🙂

Disinfect and rinse and dry after bedding changes.

@@xxyy1318 Yes!

It's beyond me, since joining Tik tok i've seen so many use them. I think until pet stores stop selling them, people who don't do prior research will unfortunately make the mistake of buying them :(

I personally use wire mesh wheels with my mice, because here in Australia, they’re just about the only wheels you can get that are 8 inches or bigger (my mice use an 8 inch wheel) and won’t break the bank. I do believe that wire mesh wheels - never wire barred wheels - are suitable for mice, but there are a few things you really need to make certain of for a wire mesh wheel to be as safe as possible (and that I see people doing wrong all the time), and these are: 1. That the holes in the mesh are the right size, so that your mice or rats can’t get their toes or feet stuck. For mice you want a wheel where the mesh is large enough that their toes easily pass through (so they don’t get trapped), and small enough that their legs can’t pass through. Most larger wire mesh wheels have mesh that’s far too big for mice. 2. That you hang the wheel from the side or roof of the cage so that the cross beam is not able to be climbed on (there’s a video of a hamster getting stuck between the cross beam and the wheel and being hit by the wheel when another hamster ran on it. It went viral a few months ago and it’s why this is really important). 3. That you clean it often. I see a lot people saying that wire mesh leads to bumblefoot, but as you mention, it happens when bacteria enters a creak in the skin on the feet. I do actually believe that wire mesh wheels lead to bumblefoot more often than solid wheels, because poop falls through and wee runs off, which makes them look far cleaner for far longer than a solid wheel, which gathers waste quite obviously. I think people clean their wire mesh wheels a lot less often and forget that just because the waste has fallen through the mesh, doesn’t mean that the bacteria is gone. 4. That they’re still the right size for mice. I see a lot of people using very small wire mesh wheels, because these wheels do run very tiny, and this is just not okay. 6.5in is generally touted as the absolute minimum for very small mice, but I use an 8in wheel and for my small/average sized mice, it’s perfect (and I have Manx mice, too). If you have English show or similarly HUGE mice, then I’d say go even bigger, 12in if you have to. The only limit to how big your wheel is is the mesh size and if your mice are strong and heavy enough to spin it. With all of this being said, I’m still not entirely sure if I think that wire mesh wheels are suitable for rats. I personally don’t like my rats to walk on mesh levels, but the mesh on a wheel IS much smaller and probably more comfortable to walk on. I still feel weird about it. Rats are so much heavier than rats and I think the kind of small mesh I’m talking about would still have to be very well coated to avoid cutting their feet with their weight and speed on the wheel. I also think that a lot of these wheels would probably be flimsy enough to be dangerous for rats, and because they need to be hung from the cage proper, they could also be too heavy for practical use, too. We know that wire bar wheels aren’t suitable, and here in Australia, it’s absolutely not possible to get a solid wheel big enough for rats that’s less than $100AUD, so for now, my rats are without a wheel, and they probably always will be. Any wheel for a rat needs to be just so huge that it’s largely inconvenient to have them in a cage and it encourages people to push just how small they can go. The very big silent spinner wheel pictured in this video, for example, had what looked to be an average sized female rat running on it, and that wheel was easily too small for her. They’re just not something most rat owners should bother with.

@@helloitsbella8161 if i were in a country which plastic wheels were tiny and there was big wire wheels with spacing in between small enough to not catch full feet or tails I also would choose the wire wheel to be honest.I The barred ones with giant spacing are completely not suitable not the mesh

@@helloitsbella8161 what about homemade wheels? You can make a good size solid wheel at home! There's videos on youtube so if You would like to make one just check here

Remove the rat first though

They can make good hides with adjustments though 😔