Rats are living in my outdoor storeroom.... they chewed thru the plastic bags and ate my pet food supplies that I stored there ! ARGH...... somemore shit all over the storeroom. Worse thing is they are hiding in the holes on top that lead to the wiring and roof....

jaswwp, you need snakes!!!

hahaha mr.tikusniaga...now intelligently related what happen to his snake business..now rats problem can be solve with snake..what ur waiting for...buy la jas hehehe....
as an alternative, cats also can kill rats...but be sure to got a strong cat, not a manja manja one who dont catch mice..dog also can..hun told me her dog kill rat heheh..

This post has been edited by kembara: Mar 3 2007, 12:48 PM

haha I dont think putting snake to crawl around my storeroom and piping would be a good idea either

I just bought a rat care book... and I found something really really interesting...

It seems male rats can live peacefully together in a colony or male group provided the space is big and when there is only a single dominant male.... anyway... a colony can have many many young males and they are known as the "testers". Funny rite? All females are breeders in the colony, but the males cannot mate(only alpha can) so they become the colony's official food testers.

Let's say you place poisoned food... only 1 tester will eat it first while the whole colony waits in hiding.... after an hour or so, if the tester is alive then only the colony would venture out to eat.... if the tester dies then no rat would touch the food.

Young rats or weaned rats would only eat food that has been nibbled by adults. This is to make sure it doesn't kill them....

Weird rite? This is why rats have been surviving for such a long time. Damn smart animals hahhaha....

wah... new knowledge to me...
wonderful world of rats la...clever..
no wonder rats can survive for long time in this world aaa...
btw where's you buy the book hun?

I bought the book at 2nd hand bookstore.... too bad no hamsters or rabbit books... got a few guinea pig books.... cheap also. Normally Rm20 to RM40 for those books... the shop selling like RM8 to RM15 only....

wa..second hand bookshop??
where??
got gerbil book??or other rodent?or arowana?

Go Ampang Point Pay Less bookstore... all 2nd hand and cheap.... I bought 2 rat books LOL.... but didn't realize same author... but different edition and very interesting to read.

Right now I plan to buy a 3 tier cage.... scared to DIY since the wire fencing in Malaysia is quite poisonouse for rats and rodents.... sigh, cage gonna cost RM250 I think... but it would be better for my rats I guess...

Colony's official food testers?? Interesting... What is the title of the book?? and the name of the author??

Interesting.

BUT when I am going to feed them , all of them come at the same time fighting over food.

Hahah... that one maybe can say will only be seen in wild rats. The rats we keep already know that we are the source of food so they do not really care heheheh... makan means makan lah.

I just changed a new diet for my rats..... man, they eat better than me heheheh....

Muesli mix that got coconut, sunflower seeds, dried papaya, dried apples, dried banana, peanuts, almonds, walnuts, rolled oats and wheat sticks.... wah... so sedap... RM12.90 for 1kg heheheh err... I think it's 1kg....

Then they get habitrail mixed with Prestige and Harry Hamster... then got California natural dog kibbles...

Then they also get 500g of raw pasta...

Then about 400g of brown rice.

Wahh.... my rats will become fat in no time heheheh....

Why mother-rats fight over pinkies?

Such a good question hahahah....

Now I must get ready 2 other cages since.... 2 more females pregnant already... wahahahah....

HUN, Someone might read a book about this. As for me , I can't read their mind and therefore I have no idea.

What if , mother rat got only 2 tits ..... probably they won't steal anymore. With 12 tits ....they need to steal pinkies to keep all tits accupied?

Not very sure.... my rat book doesn't say anything about this.... it says normally female rats would share the responsibility of raising their young.... but my rat, Tamarin, she ah.... gave birth to 8... but i took 1 pinkie so now left 7... anyway, with 7, she wanted Cheezel's 12 pinkies.... then now she snatched Ginger's 12 pinkies also....

I just went out to get 2 large storage boxes... so Cheezel and Ginger are safe in their own box with their 12 pinkies...

Well... I'm now awaiting for my next rat, Onion to birth hahahah..... wow, gonna have so many rats soon....

I've always wanted to keep rats but never did knew where to buy them. I don't trust those that are being sold in pet shops. Does anyone know of a breeder who breeds rats?

Wuuu.... you didn't notice my post meh? Got so many babies just born hahahaha..... anything can PM me.

Ehehe.. I wasn't sure if you were going to sell them.
Btw, how do you usually tame rats? Also.. between rats and gerbils, which would be a better choice as a pet?

Hahah... what I wanna do with 40 young rats later? LOL....

Anyway... rats are more social.... They do act a bit like sugar gliders and rats got bigger brains so you can teach them some tricks like stand, come when you call their names and jump... Of course the smell of the rats pee is a bit smelly... ok, can say smellier than hamsters hahahah.... But it would be alright to keep their cage or tank outdoors provided the rats got good ventilation and a hidebox.

Gerbils.... well, they smell less, smaller than rats, less cleaning than rats and they got actie personalities heheheh....

A single rat can get lonely so 2 rats are great. Females smell less than males.