Rats are normally clean animals, after all, think of how much time during a 24 hour period that they spend grooming! But every now and then, our ratties need an actual bath. To learn more about bathing you rats, check out my video HERE. Since having made that video, I have quit using Johnson & […]
Back when my long haired dachshund, Cayman, was a puppy, I received a little pet car seat to put him in when we were driving to and from our puppy classes at Petco. He outgrew the car seat before we started our obedience classes, but I hung onto it. It was such a nice doggie car seat! […]
After writing about creating an enriched environment for our ratties, it got me thinking about my own rats and how I can make time outside the cage more fun. I had been eying these huge parrot gyms and thought how awesome they would be for rats. So I started compiling the photos I liked best […]
In case you didn’t already know, you can email me your questions to askratwhisperer@gmail.com. I’d love to answer them here on my blog and if there is something I don’t know, I would be happy to find out 🙂 My first Q&A comes from Deanna who writes: “Hello! I found your awesome ratty blog from […]
Rats are intelligent animals that need to keep their minds working and enrichment activities to stimulate them. Digging comes naturally to rats and many people have made dig boxes for their pet rats. I have seen a lot of dig boxes posted throughout the web and the instructions in which to make them state to […]
Rats are very playful especially if you own a female rate they tend to be much more playful and will not always sit on your laps as you may wish, on the other hand male rates tend to be big and not much playful as female ones. But both male and female rats are very […]
A rat harness is a cord or a strap that is used for restraining or guiding the rat inside a room, cage or even outdoors. It is very popular among researchers who use rats as guinea pigs in their laboratories. The rat harnesses are also popular with people who rear rodents as pets. If you […]
The rats are very curious as a result you will have to give something to them, and that is the hammocks. Rat Hammocks offer rats a place to play, to climb, to keep warm and also to rest. There are a few things to keep in mind when shopping for good hammocks and I will […]
