introducing new rats

i unfortunately had a super rough start to rat ownership. i got my first boy, Kakashi, as a surprise christmas gift last year (2023) at 2 weeks old according to the pet store. he had a cagemate my now-ex partner had. He’s a pink eyed albino with all but 1 finger missing on his front right paw...

Hello! opinions would be greatly appreciated. I have 3, 7-week old rats that I intend to introduce to my lone girl Zaffie. One of the new babies, Faun, has been blind in one eye since birth and has an infection. I am managing it with eyedrops and once I get the go-ahead from a vet the eye will...

I currently have a 21 week old rat who is socialised, and am introducing one that is around 7-8 weeks old now to my older rat. i pushed the cages together, over a series of days and let my older rat smell the young ones cage. As time went on i introduced my bigger rat to the smaller cage. To...

hi guys, yesterday i had to say goodbye to one of my beautiful boys due to a respiratory disease :( he lived with his brother and they’ve only just turned one this month. so far, james seems to be doing ok. he was looking around my room for william for about half an hour after he died but now he...

I'm a very new rat mom, so any advice/criticisms would be welcome. Hi! So I've ended up adopting a young (at a guess I'd say he's definitely less than a year old from looking at photos of other rats, but I've no clue on a specific age, I'm afraid) boy rat (Harry) from a family friend. She had...

I'm a first time rat owner. I'm struggling to introduce an older rat, Davos, to two younger rats, Stannis and Roose. A couple of weeks ago, a friend tells me she needs her rat re-homed because her dogs would terrorize him whenever they could in the three weeks she had him. When I started with...

This is my first time introducing rats and so far I think everything is going well but I'm not sure. I originally had two girls and I recently added another to the family. The new rat, Subie, has some neurological issues, she walks off balance and has a head tilt. I kept Subie away from my...

I recently got 2 1 year old female rescue rats to go with my 1 year old lone rat (also a rescue). They hit it off straight away, as I’m using the carrier method - which is working really well. I am on stage 4 and they are now in a Furat Plus cage with 1 hammock. They haven’t fought since stage...

Oddball has been with me the longest. I've had him a year and had gotten him when he was aprox 2 months old. Oddball by Ashleigh posted Mar 14, 2019 at 10:28 AM He has a towel fortress on my computer desk that he frequently naps in. He loves raw broccoli but hates raw carrots. Next are Mac...

Hi, and thank you for letting me join your ranks. My name is Ashleigh, and I've grown up with pet rats most of my life. The past year I've played rat mom to my boy Oddball, who is a hairy hairless. And just last night I took on two new hairy boys naned Mac and Cheese from a not great situation...

Okay. So. I just had a poor baby die from old age, and I didn't want Ronnie to be all by herself. I got two more baby girls to keep her company and to have them aquainted was a bit tough, but they seemed to get along fine after a few days to a week. I woke up this morning to my Hooded rat...

Hi, i was curious to see if anyone tried the neutral territory intoduction which didnt end well but tried the carrier method instead and it ended up going well? Do you have preferred methods?