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Skyfire Ex Member	My Pet Rats (pics) Feb 5^th, 2009 at 11:41am Here are the girls! The black one is named Smokey, whom I also call Piggi, and the tan one is named Suede, a.k.a Buffi. They're so cute! In the second one you can see Suede's ruby eyes.
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Midnight Angel Ex Member	Re: My Pet Rats (pics) Reply #1 - Feb 5^th, 2009 at 11:49am Awww, how cute are they?! I love rats!
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bikerbraid Shooting Star Offline Life is short, Break the rules Posts: 6569 Bike Paths of the Midwest Gender:	Re: My Pet Rats (pics) Reply #2 - Feb 5^th, 2009 at 11:54am Darling! Reminds me of when I used to raise hamsters.
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Curlgirl64 Stardust Offline Practice Yoga,give and receive Reiki Posts: 2974 Brooklyn,N.Y. Gender:	Re: My Pet Rats (pics) Reply #3 - Feb 5^th, 2009 at 1:21pm They're beautiful!
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Sakina Stardust Offline August 2O1O @ the Louvre Posts: 3399 Arizona Gender:	Re: My Pet Rats (pics) Reply #4 - Feb 5^th, 2009 at 7:27pm Adorable! Now when you talk about them in your journal I know what they look like!
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waiting4longlocks Emerald Offline ;) Posts: 367 Gender:	Re: My Pet Rats (pics) Reply #5 - Feb 5^th, 2009 at 7:34pm wowzers!
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Godyssey Stardust Offline Posts: 2375 Georgia Gender:	Re: My Pet Rats (pics) Reply #6 - Feb 6^th, 2009 at 5:45am Wow...I actually have to admit that they're cute! I would've never in a million years thought that I would use the word "cute" to describe rats.
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Trisha Stardust Offline Posts: 2318 Missouri Gender:	Re: My Pet Rats (pics) Reply #7 - Feb 6^th, 2009 at 9:34am Cute! My hubby often speaks fondly about the 2 white rats he kept as a boy.
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fisher2 Sapphire Offline Accipere quam facere praestat injuriam Posts: 114	Re: My Pet Rats (pics) Reply #8 - Feb 6^th, 2009 at 9:44am awww so cute i wish i could own rats but my moms afraid of them n my cat is a freak
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Re: My Pet Rats (pics)
Reply #9 - Feb 6^th, 2009 at 5:17pm

I had rats and a cat when I was a teenager. I'd only take the rats out to play with them when the cat was out of the room, of course, and when my mom was, too. She was always so afraid they'd get loose and the cat would eat them, but of course rats need out-of-the-cage time more than most other rodents. Sometimes Twinkle (the cat) would sit on the floor of my room staring at them in their cage. She looked like a statue.

Rats are the sweetest and most sociable pets I've ever had. (I've never had a dog, BTW) All they do is lick my fingers. And my ears. And climb on my head, and try to take out all my hairties...

Hamsters are cute, but I never met one that didn't want to bite me. Even pet hamsters that wouldn't bite their owners wanted my blood.

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Re: My Pet Rats (pics)
Reply #10 - Feb 7^th, 2009 at 11:24am

Hamsters that are raised for pet shops are most likely to bite. Babies need to be handled early to condition them to humans. Hamsters that I bred and raised never bit anyone. Hamsters can be very tempremantal. They also need a lot of exercise time - a wheel is not enough. They need to climb and run. Rats do make better pets, but most people don't realize that and instead sustaining their preconcieved notion that rats are dirty, ugly rodents (which they are in the "wild"). Rats that are raised as pets can be fun and friendly.

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YesitsReal Ruby Offline LongLocks Rocks! Posts: 71 Gender:	Re: My Pet Rats (pics) Reply #11 - May 2^nd, 2009 at 8:53pm Aww! They're adorable! I just had to put down a pet mouse that I'd had for four years. ::sniffle:: I think I might like to have a rat when I decide to get another pocket pet.
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