Rats

Does anyone own pet rats? What they like as pets? I don’t plan to have any pets for sometime yet, but if I did I may consider something small…like rats.

I’m aware they need to be with others so they are not lonely (same sex if you don’t want young). And that they are clean and surprisingly clever I recently discovered. My friend Kath suggested them once too me some months ago, as her grand daughter used to own a pair at one time. But I also know that if I did own rats of my own, there will be some friends and family that will think, euurgh! and pull their face. Or maybe not even come to flat as one once friend said once. I know where they are coming from, as used to be like that.

But I know also still I may have a little problem, and that’s their tails…because they don’t have hair on them, after I went to a pet shop once to look at them. But if I did find I don’t have a problem like I think I have, and did own them myself sometime in the future, I know I could go away on holidays, knowing a friend could look after them, as she looked after her grand daughters once or twice.

I’d like to hear of any rat owners here, who can talk about their pleasures and joys they get out of owning a pet rat.