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Rat Information Please2007-11-24 22:14:25

I'm looking into buying a female dumbo eared rat and have a few questions to ask for those who already have them as a pet.

1] How big will she get?

2] What is the best home for her? [aquarium/hamster home/ect?]

3] What type of food do rats perfer, and can they digest fruits and vegtables? [Such as trailmix, ect.]

4] Reccomended toys?

5] What types of bedding have you found works best for your rat?

6] Is maintaining a rat costly?

Answers:

It's really good that you're researching pet rats before you get one. I think the more you find out about them, the better you'll like the idea of having a rat for a pet. The first thing you should know is that dumbo eared rats are not a separate breed of rat. "Dumbo eared" just refers to the placement of the ears and babies from the same litter can have differently placed ears, some "dumbo" or side placed and others top placed.

A couple really good sites for you to look around on are:

http://exoticpets.about.com/cs/careofrat...

and

http://www.petrats.org/

You can find out the answers to your questions there. Another couple of sites that are really good are:

http://www.petratscanada.com/

(check out the rat play pen on this site)

and

finally, this site that has a great name finder you can use when you get your new rattie:

http://www.fancy-rats.co.uk/resources/ra...

I would like to tell you what has worked for my household, which is home to two rats who do not share a cage, since they joined us more than a year apart.