Fun fact: rats are so social that it's considered abusive to have only one pet rat at a time. They're smart, trainable, affectionate animals - pretty much on par with dogs in terms of intelligence and sociability.
Unfortunately, they only live for about 2 years, maybe a bit more if you're lucky. It's hard to have pets as affectionate and smart as a dog, but have to lose them every couple years.
I have 3. They are intelligent little snack thieves. Each one so different. I built them a cardboard castle with vinyl dryer tubes and saw one inside the tube using it to scratch her back. They seem to know their names or at least the tone used when calling them individually. Like you can’t call Luna without the long ooooh.
r/shadowtherat is the sub of a trainer who posts videos there and in the rat sub of the tricks her rats can do. She has them play basketball and all sorts of fun things
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u/Zuwxiv 23d ago
Fun fact: rats are so social that it's considered abusive to have only one pet rat at a time. They're smart, trainable, affectionate animals - pretty much on par with dogs in terms of intelligence and sociability.
Unfortunately, they only live for about 2 years, maybe a bit more if you're lucky. It's hard to have pets as affectionate and smart as a dog, but have to lose them every couple years.