Pet Forum / Mammals / Rats / July 2008

I was asking advice on a site about rat health, when I thought 'I wonder if
there's a rat loving newsgroup'?
So here I am! :)
I have 3 ratty girls. Nibbles and Rascal are 18 month old hooded rats, and

We'll be getting a friend (hopefully a sister) for Pippy this afternoon,
along with a new cage. I found a tool here:
http://www.rattycorner.com/odds/calc.shtml
that tells me I should look for dimensions of 27.5"h x 27.5"w x 17.3"d.

How many of you are members of Ratlist on Yahoogroups ? Member of any other
groups?
Samantha
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We just joined the world of "rat owners" recently.  Our "fancy pants"
is adorable, and we love her to pieces.  She has so much personality,
and is so smart it's scary!  We did a lot of research and after
reading everything about having at least "2" rats, we got another one.

http://freemontsoffice.com/gripes/2008/07/21/lolrats/
I thought I was clever, making an LOLRat... then I hit Google and
discovered that in fact I wasn't quite first to think of it. ;-)
I also thought that my pictures would be crap, because the rats kept moving

Well I tried posting this earlier and it apparently went into the Usenet
Black Hole.
We take Pippy out of her cage every day, but she's reluctant to be picked
up, and she always starts pooping. I assume she does this because she's

http://i34.tinypic.com/fmqdld.jpg
Pippy to the left.
They prefer printer paper to any kind of hut I give them. Somehow they
fold it into little lean-tos. ;-) Or they just lay on it.

Hello all. After a bad experience with a couple of hamsters, yesterday we
brought home a 5 week old blue rat from Petsmart. She's a cute and
friendly little bugger.
I want this critter to be happy and healthy. She's in a 24x12x14 wire cage

This year's Kate Greenaway Medal-winner dedicated her winning book to
the two pet rats who helped her create it, putting in sterling service
nibbling the edges of the pages on cue to produce that authentic
'mouse-eaten' look: