According to the Pet Food Manufacturing Association, it estimates that there are about 100,000 pet rats in the U.K. alone and, in the U.S., about 500,000 families own a rat or mouse, based on ...

For an adult pet rat, the cage should be at least 14" by 12" by 24". You should stay away from pine or cedar shavings as they are toxic to rats. Your rat needs a shelter or sleeping box in the cage.

In this video a tiny, gray-and-white Pit Bull puppy is being introduced to his rat brother, Remi. Remi is two years old, ... “I had pet rats for a few years and my pit loved them.

Among those to own a pet rat was the author Beatrix Potter, who had an albino called Samuel. Potter, who was in her early forties at the time, adored her rat, to whom she dedicated her 1908 book ...