The Rat Room

What’s the harm in buying a rat from that pet store?
Most rats in pet stores come from rat mills or worse yet, bred in a back room.
Rat mills produce rats by the thousands. These rats are housed in small containers in overcrowded conditions. Moms are bred back to back which ends up producing unhealthy babies. When you buy from a pet store with stock from a rat mill, you are most certainly buying a sick and unsocial rat.
A pet store that breeds their own also keeps their stock in unfavorable conditions. They usually have their rats in with mixed genders, rats are constantly inbreeding and not socialized either.

Keep in mind, when you buy from a pet store, you are filling a need which sends the message to the pet store that they need to acquire or produce more stock thus creating more unhealthy rats.
It is hard to not buy that sad little face in that pet store tank but he will be replaced by a dozen more sad little faces. Most of which will end up as live reptile food… a most horrific end to their young lives.

Send out a message to these pet stores selling animals for profit. Try not to purchase supplies from a rat-selling petstore. Support the shops without animals. Stop the demand… end the supply.