Coz rats are too smart to use wheels. They know run on wheel won't get them anywhere hahahah.

Coz nice to sleep in hahah.... maybe coz cozy and cool also.

LOL.... rats breed slower than mice.... mine also. I got potential females housed with males, still haven't pop anything yet for me hahahah.....

Tomorrow seems like got some cat show at MATRADE..... my friend just borrowed some of my pets LOL.... and one of them is my pet Rat, Diego..... big fella, hope no cats chase after him.

CFP, I'll get the rats from you soon lah heheheh. Had fun with them?

Aiyoh, seems when at the exhibition, Diego slept the whole time, even with so many cats around. Then the children kept asking my friend, "is he dead?"

LOL

Hahah.... maybe loh...... he knows he is the King, he got his own tank with his wifey there..... she gave 12 kids that just opened their eyes yesterday.

Diego is the tamest. He can come when you call him and hold a sunflower seed. If you hold it high, he would stand up on his 2 back legs. He eat the seed in less than 1 second LOL.

He is super docile, he groomed my Guinea pig LOL.

Sigh... you don't get it? This is a rat thread.... your's is a mouse, so moved to the mouse thread.

CNY just over.... well, before CNY, one of my male rats was loaned to a advertising company to shoot a tv ad. I've been searching for the TVC high and low. Today found it. Here is the vid of my rat acting hahahah.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=527sX8na0L0

I didn't ask for a figure, so they just paid RM100 to me heheheh.... at least my rat returned home safe and sound.

HAhah... Tickle and Milo are cute. Rats are easy to find in LYN... I got plenty heheheh.... fancy rats, alot of mink hoodeds.

Anyway, mind sharing with us which shop is it?

If you can spend about Rm260, then get a large cage from jtl. I have seen it, the space, ramps, ladders.... PERFECT for RATS!

You can get those large bird cages.... price starts around RM70 onwards....

Well, keeping pets is not cheap lah.... rats don't really like tanks unless you can make windows if it is a storage box. I cut windows and use wire mesh. Transparent tanks are better.

As for nails, you can trim them. I give my pet rats a bath sometimes, then I trim their nails.

Now I'm hoping for more Topaz and lilac babies....

Oh yah, I also got hybrids! My hooded beige female went to play around with a wild brown rat. So now I have 3 brown rats. They aren't very tame although I have been handling them since young.... and they are extra smart. Probably coz of their wild blood.... anyway, I hope to introduce this new line to my hoodeds, who knows... maybe I can breed solid colours later LOL.

Your pictures are blur... but looks like Milo is a male.... the right picture.

You better separate them.... coz rats breed like crazy.

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Added on March 22, 2008, 2:41 amCharacter doesn't show male or female. Is the body shape. Males are more robust, have a larger head and larger body. Females are more slender.

I can't really sex them properly if your pictures are blur. Try getting clearer pictures. Or better, if I can see them if you wanna meet me somewhere.

This post has been edited by crazymouse_yyh: Mar 22 2008, 02:41 AM

Yes, rats do get depress but only for a short while. But if you keep them alone, you need to spend extra time playing and socializing.

You are welcome to exchange or get more rats from me if you like. Right now I got some lovely mink hoodeds that will leave their mom in a week. Cute buggers.

I go to Pet Shack during Thursdays.... that's just behind the Wang Wang aquarium shop you bought your rats from. I was there last week.... the condition of the rats there are kinda sad, such small space.

Vasectomy is possible... but it will cost about Rm100....

Yah, Milo's a male..... Oh dear... you really gotta neuter him soon. Check the vet list for a clinic called Hands and Paws. There is a vet there, goes by the name of Dr Jenny, she casterated my gerbil. So I think she can do rat too. Call the clinic first. Dr Jenny is only available during the weekends.

For your info, sugar glider cages got wire bottom. But it is still the best cage.

My rats live in a large 2ft cage. They have a hammock, a wooden plank to rest their feet while the rest is wired. I found this to be the best way to keep them. This is coz I have..... LOL.... 30 rats ok. Rats need lots of ventilation. So a cage is the best. It may be messy with wood shavings, but it really is healthier for rats. My Singaporean friends house my rats using cages as well. Some use the tall 3ft bird cage, some buy Super Pet or those large guinea pig cages with ramps.

I use both wood shavings and catlitter. Cat litter is more for my makeshift storage box cages coz they are more comfortable for their feet. Those in the cage get cat litter coz they are separated from the cat litter by the wire mesh.


Nopes... chinese hamsters look more like mouse than a rat. Also, the chinese hamster has a tail not longer than 2cm. Mouse and rat got tails that are the lenght of their bodies. So it is totally different. Chinese hamsters got a mousy face.

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Added on March 25, 2008, 10:13 amFeeder rats and tamed rats.... got difference. Some petshops sell adult feeder rats... so getting them as pets is kinda difficult coz they are quite wild and will bite. Getting feeder rats at a young age is easier, taming is smooth and easy too.

Why people charge RM50 for tame rats is coz they train them already to be tame. Will come when you call.

LOL, but I don't sell rats at RM50.... My rats, half are feeders and half are pets. I gotta use them as feeders coz I own snakes. But all my favourite rats are my pets. They grow really big, if you guys have seen the CNY vid I posted, you can see how big my rat is hahahah.

This post has been edited by crazymouse_yyh: Mar 25 2008, 10:13 AM

If you keep in your room, you should use a high quality cat litter. No matter how many times you change the bedding, rat pee is not healthy.... so I would advice you to keep your rats somewhere else other than your room.

Rat poop that is wet would be smelly, when the poop is dry, it is odourless. Of course the urine is strong hahahah.

The only way if you wanna keep both is to keep them in separate cages.

Those are fancy mice, not rats. They cost like Rm3 only.... pets... well, they aren't as people friendly like rats.... ok as pets but their body odour and pee smell is stronger than a pet rat.

I think the correct word is bond.... most rodents can be tame but to bond with it is different. Rats will sit on our shoulders, answer to clicks and sounds I make when I am near their cages. Rats are easier to train and easier to be pocket pets coz they rarely pee and poo when we put them on our shoulders or in our pockets.

It is normal mice. The proper name is Fancy Mice, but normally sold as sn ke food. Pets Wonderland sells at RM6, Pet Family at Rm4, most petshops sell RM3...

There are no dumbo rats or any other kinda pet rats here coz Malaysians buy rats for feeders. If you want other type of rats, you gotta import from Australia.

Watery nose is a sign of allergy.... this could be dust, wood shavings... hay....