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catbyte

(34,454 posts) Sun Jul 14, 2019, 09:47 PM Jul 2019

Rats turned this kid into a total animal lover 🐀❤️

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Rats turned this kid into a total animal lover 🐀❤️ (Original Post) catbyte Jul 2019 OP

How can you train a rat not to urinate as they travel? Farmer-Rick Jul 2019 #1

We had some pet rats and they were very sweet animals. kysrsoze Jul 2019 #2

I miss my rats. Doreen Jul 2019 #3

Our children had pet rats. hunter Jul 2019 #4

Farmer-Rick

(10,212 posts)

1. How can you train a rat not to urinate as they travel?

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Sun Jul 14, 2019, 09:59 PM

Jul 2019

I thought they couldn't help it. It's how hawks can find them. I wonder how you stop them because they will even urinate on each other and their food.

kysrsoze

(6,023 posts)

2. We had some pet rats and they were very sweet animals.

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Sun Jul 14, 2019, 11:49 PM

Jul 2019

Good pets for people with minimal space.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)

3. I miss my rats.

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Mon Jul 15, 2019, 01:21 AM

Jul 2019

hunter

(38,328 posts)

4. Our children had pet rats.

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Mon Jul 15, 2019, 11:26 AM

Jul 2019

The dogs we had then accepted the rats as fellow members of the household. (Unfortunately they accepted the wild roof rats too!)

Individual rats have very distinct personalities, just like cats or dogs, and many are very smart.

Our children stopped keeping rats around middle school.

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