The Rat Room

Rats are from the order Rodentia but that doesn’t mean you can put them all together to play.
In fact, rats are known to become very territorial and instinctual when faced with a different and smaller species. Rats can attack and cause severe damage if not death to other species like hamsters, mice, degus…
I’ve heard a few horror stories with people wanting their rats to play with their other pocket pets.
Not just small animals, but also birds, cats and dogs should be supervised when around rats. There are dogs that would love nothing more than to bite down on a rat and make him/her his lunch.
Don’t force an unnatural friendship between rats and bunnies, rats and guinea pigs, rats and chinchilla, rats and ferrets… the results could be disastrous.

Please keep your pet rats happy and healthy with their own kind. It’s always better to be safe than sorry.