Top 8 Foods Recommended for Pet Rats
Rats can be finicky eaters who favor fatty meals over more nutritional meals, so creating a well-balanced and healthy diet for your pet rat is vital to their wellbeing and avoid malnourishment or obesity. We evaluated several major rat food brands ranging from hearty pellet diets to leaner seed mixes; […]
Caring for a Pet Rat: Essential Guidelines
Rats are intelligent and friendly companion animals who enjoy cuddling. Rats make excellent family pets, especially children. Rats seek human interaction as well as socialization with other rats; thus making for great companion animals for kids of any age. While rats require some care once you set up their enclosure, […]
Keeping and Nurturing Pet Rats
Rats are intelligent and social animals that make great companions as pets. Pet rats may be easier than you think to care for, though that doesn’t mean they require low maintenance; at least an hour per day of attention and exercise time outside their cages should be enough exercise time1. […]
Caring for a Pet Gambian Pouched Rat
The Gambian pouched rat, native to Sub-Saharan Africa, has been banned from import into the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has provided more details. Some states still permit pet ownership when acquired from U.S. breeders. While most people know them as domestic rats, these rodents have cheek pouches […]