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  • Iris, do you want some broccoli?

    Hmm.. Brocolli...

    XDDD

  • it's great how you can trust her out of her cage like that, I'd be scared of her running away behind the cupboards and stuff. I wanna get a rat one day.

  • Hi Iris!

  • made this 2007, iris is prob dead.

  • HEY my rat looks like your rat! :>

  • awww cuuute, wish my rat did stuff like that D:

  • perhaps if the sound was deffer-in i would of like this video

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  • ratatouille!!!!!!

  • he looks just like my rat Jasper..... RIP Jasper Miller my baby.... he was put down today!!!!! :(

  • i LOVE rats with stars on their foreheads! my rosie had one <3

  • this was really cute ^.^

  • This rat reminds me of my rat! So intelligent.

  • Cool rat but I personally would have more than just 1 rat...

  • she's so cute! That was the most adorable rat video I've ever seen!

  • was she a harley by any chance. I've been looking for a harley rat breeder all over the place and I have yet to find one. Can any one help me out with that? I live in eastern Iowa and I can't really do shipping ($200-$300 for shipping rats is a little ridiculous.)

    Anyway, she was an amazing beauty, you were lucky to have her!

  • awwww she reminds me of my old rat Spike.

  • He acts just like a dog lol :D

  • I have a rat called Iris. She is no-where near as smart as yours though. She's the dumbest of my girls.... Super cute!

  • Awe, your babies are so cute. I have rats, mine love tomatoes and ears of raw corn. I will have to try some broccoli. I noticed you have fabric in your cages, how often do you have to wash it? I am thinking about doing that.

  • i felt so sad that i had to get rid of mine they seriously make great pets mine nvr pooped or peed on me she went in her cage i loved her dearly but i was severly allergic to her

  • Whoah wouldn't it run off or something?? So cute and so well behaved!!

  • best pets ever i let mine pretty much just run around the house like a dog/cat, he does his own thing nvr gets into anything and comes when i call him (ususally stays near me anyway) and i just leave the top off the cage if he wants to eat or w/e.. he gets in and out of the cage on his own..

  • I was always scared to let my rat just run free, afraid she'll run into some hole-in-the-wall and never be seen from again.

    One day I was cleaning her cage and unknowingly left the cage door open as I went to the freezer, to throw a pizza into the oven and when I looked down, there she was, just standing right the door to the freezer, as if she was saying 'Oh, can I have some of that, too'

  • That was ADORABLE!!! If I didn't have dogs I would TOTALLY let my ratties play on the floor like that, they'd love it! But they will have to stick to playing between the bed, couch and my shoulders.

  • That is so cute ;3 My rat swirls too O:

  • well put together video

  • He needs a mate! he cant be alone. Even if You are there 16 h/d!

  • Vegetables are fine for rats as long as they are in their regular diet. I wouldn't suggest too much broccoli, but it looks like she only got it as a treat, which compared to other treats is very healthy. It's nice seeing people loving & caring for their rats properly. ^_^

  • oooo....so cute :P

  • very cute

  • I'm trying to teach my rats this but they aren't all that clever. Besides chiko will just bite me instead of twirl :p she's pretty bity, had a bad exprecience with people growing up, now i'm the only person she trusts

  • some much cuteness its too much!!

    -head explodes-

  • That looks like my rat he died like 3 years ago :(

  • @ijzemeuker It could be one of my dogs then, I never give them anything grassy. I always buy their rat food and special rat treats to make sure they aren't getting anything bad, and I tell my boyfriend and friends not to feed them anything but their food and treats.

  • @kiraivalentine Fruits, vegetables, whole grains, & meats should also be fed to your rat regularly to keep up with a healthy diet.

  • If rats cant fart very well someone needs to tell my rat thrall that. He cracks off good ones every now and then, you can hear em from across the room.

  • @kiraivalentine rats can't burp or fart, what you're hearing is probably something else... cause if you give them anything gas-like their stomach will explode... don't give rats gassy stuff :p

  • Try tying a piece at the top of a helium balloon. I did that with cheerios and my rat would pull the balloon down to get the cheerio. I would even take him outside to run around. In hindsight that was not a wise thing to do, but it just confirmed that well loved rats will stay with their human buddies.

  • She is awesome!

  • she looks and acts like my little one Valentine

  • That's a cute rat< I have two, one is dark gray with white and theother one is white. The white one tries to bite me most of the times I wonder if you could tell me how do I get her to stop bitting me. It has done it twice and it hurts a lot.

  • @luismania06

    i got two lovely rats too...before this two i had two others and one used to bite me, what helped me was to be very strict with her...i screamed at her and made her ran away in fear (i know not a very nice way) but after a week of being extremly harsh with her whenever she missbehaved, she accepted me as her new boss and stopped bitting, we even became good friends, and she even started using my shoulder to sleep on:-)

  • @Tpal91 Thank you! yeah I was trying that in a way and she has been really nice lately, Thanks for answering me..

  • awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww­ so gorgeous!

  • My friends didn't like rats until I showed them this video. Then they said, 'Why can't yours do that cute thing?!' and spent the next hour trying to get my girls to twirl for them. Thank you so much for uploading! What an incredible video!

  • What cage is that and where did u get it

  • U HAVE A RODENT INFESTATION, SHALL I TERMINATE.

  • how did u train her to twirl? ide like to teach my rat XD

  • i wish my rats liked their greens this much XD

  • Thats one well behaved rat :)

    How long does a typical rat live anyway? I know mice have pretty short lifespans, but I'm guessing rats may live a good deal longer?

  • @TheStigma 2-4 yearsish?

  • @MichelleKozlowski It must suck to loose them so fast when you get so attached to them :(

    2-4 years tend to fly by real quickly.

  • @MichelleKozlowski Iris is adorable!!! That was the cutest thing I have ever seen!!!!

  • @MichelleKozlowski No, not 4 years. Its only 2 if your lucky.

  • @Maxisme100 the smartest rat i have ever had the honor of having as a pet lived to be 3 yrs 8 months old.... they can live to be older if they come from a good genetic line and you feed them healthy food and give them stimulating play dates with you every day. R.I.P. Chriton

  • It may be a little late to say this but brocolli is bad for rats.. it can make them sick because it gives them gas and they cant fart very well

  • @NekoHisaharu Though she has passed away, she never had gas issues. :)

  • @MichelleKozlowski how did it past away?

  • @MichelleKozlowski and you should get a ferret they live longer they live to 7 to 9 years but if you play with it EVERY day it will live about 10 years

  • @NekoHisaharu Actually, broccoli is fine for rats. Debbie Ducommun herself uses it in her rat diet.

  • @NekoHisaharu they can't burp but they can (and DO :D ) fart :)

  • @ElegyWilde Hell yeah, they can blow you away with one toot.

  • @NekoHisaharu That is incorrect. Rats can & do 'pass gas' (Having experienced it myself with several that liked to sit on shoulders with their back sides towards my face and let loose lol). Rats cannot vomit. But they can burp & fart, it's from an old myth that allowing your rats to drink carbonated drinks would cause them to explode. All of my elderly rats had a "pepsi bowl' to help with HED (Hind End Degeneration). The caffeine & sugar helped them be more comfortable & able to enjoy old age.

  • so cute! :D xd

  • So cute she doesn't even seems true :)

    Rats are amazing pets.

  • Ahhhh how sweet, they are great pets.

    My nephew had one and she was the sweetest thing, she loved to visit me and just snuggle.

  • What a an adorable smart rat!!!!!

  • She's a beauty! (:

  • that is really cool(: my rat zen just sits around and eats haha(: teach mee!!!!! the way bahaha:

  • she is so cute and very smart. you know she is performing in ratty heaven. we have a big rat family and have started teaching them tricks.

  • what a sweet baby

  • How did you train your rat not to run away when loose? I want to be able to do this with my rat, but I don't want her to get hurt,.

  • @googieliver My rat used to have free range in my room all the time and free range in the house when supervised. It's a lot easier to rat proof your room than the whole house. Before releasing them into the bowels of your home make sure they come when you call them. This is a REALLY easy trick (lots of treats). I use a kissing sound. I still don't think my pets know or care what their names are.

  • a broccoholic xD

  • when i get my mouse ima name it GLaDOS

  • my rats can turn too":P

  • omg lol what a sweet and well trained girl, so jelous :D

  • RIP. So sad that they only live a few years!

  • lol i love the bit at the end

  • she is on the other side of the rainbow, in broccoli- paradaise.

    My rats are now eating broccoli ;D

  • My rat loves penut butter :D

  • cccccccuuuuuuute

  • Richtig süß <3

  • She is so adorable! Very intelligent too ;)

    RIP <3

  • aww so cute :3

  • This has to be one of the cutest videos i have ever seen! I have 2 rats and i love them <3

  • i love rats so much they're so cute!!

  • Kill the rat take the cannoli

  • i have pet rats and they are really good but if they hear a sudden noise  like a door or a footstep they panic and run how can i get them to not be so afraid

  • @PV1Reece

    To get them not to be scared just play with them and give lots of treats, so they'll feel more safe. Make not so loud sounds that they'll get used to, then increase the sound over days.

  • lol, my rats used to go NUTS for brocolli, love this :D

  • EEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!

    *dies of cuteness*

  • Beautiful Iris ^_^

  • 0:15 :D so cute 

  • iris was the best rat ive ever seen. i couldnt believe how trained and happy she was! :)

  • I had a rat that was a jalapeno-holic. Though he didn't do tricks for them, he'd go from loving rat into evil rat if you had them and he couldn't get them. (For all of those wonder how I learn this, them I ordered a sandwhich from an asian resturant and I mistook them for green peppers so I let him steal them cause I don't like green peppers).

  • Damn...I nearly died from cute overdose

    X.X <3 <3

    I couldn't have a rat as a pet. I'd keep wanting to hug em to death and their bodies can't take that. I can't have small animals for pets for this very reason...:(

  • It's so cute! The rat even listen to u XDD :P

  • Awwww so smart! :D like a little puppy ^^

  • 16 people dont have twirling rats

  • CUUUUTE! <3

  • Sooo cute :) my two pet rats just past away, they lived to be three years old, one had upper resperatory that didnt get better and the other grew two tumors but they both fought for a good while and loved until the end. Im probably going to get two more sometime next month, more than likely dumbo rats cause they are so cute and i want them to look just a lil different from the last ones I had. But i will never forget my first two squeaky and squishy, R.I.P

  • Sooo cute :) my two pet rats just past away, they lived to be three years old, one had upper resperatory that didnt get better and the other grew two tumors but they both fought for a good while and loved until the end. Im probably going to get two more sometime next month, more than likely dumbo rats cause they are so cute and i want them to look just a lil different from the last ones I had. But i will never forget my first two squeaky and squishy, R.I.P

  • i love this! ratties rule!

  • What a groovy rat! My two ratties come running whenever I open the fridge.... their favorite food? Chocolate ice cream covered oysters! But only as a treat ;-)

  • Omg she's so cute!

  • rats are smart, they know people by smell instantly, checking shoes

  • k bonita , me encantaa jajaja, como as consegido k sea tan sociablee?? :)

  • ADORABLE!

  • awww,give him a nice stroke from me :) hes such a free and cared for spirit,how nice :D take care! :D

  • i wish my rat ate brocolli hes kinda picky on greens

  • That's cool how your rat runs free around and stuff =]

    When I had rats they always peed on me so I didn't like handling them a lot.

    I liked my rats, and they're all so cute, but they're not the pets for me =]

  • i love how it runs free :D

  • my ratty wont gallop like that! why is yours so bouncy??

  • aww! I have a hooded rat that looks literally the exact same (except change the grey coloring to jet black) They are such cute pets

  • I got two baby hooded rats last year which ireally worked for. I saved up 100 dollars for the cage and bought the baby girls myself. They acted just like this, and one of the girls I nicknamed "spider rat" because she was able to climb upside down in her cage. The girls were wonderful and funny and goofy just like this Iris is here. They were my world... But died unexpectedly of heart failure at just 8 months old... Rest In Peace Chloe & Lily...

  • She is absolutely wonderful! I want my boys to be able to do that, but my houseing director at school won't let me, and at home we have three cats and a dog. Course, they've already bitten the dog so I don't think he'll bother them, and the biggest cat is trained not to go after rodents in the house, but the kittens might end up being killed if they mess with my Elmo and Cid! :) They're so sweet I love ratties.

  • what a cutie pie!i have one named iris 2!:)

  • i have had 5 rats all males: eddie, frite, spencer, pieper and currently we only have chester. im holding him right now. he says "helloo!"

  • I use to have a hooded male rat named cheerio when I was 15. He was given to me by my mom after a student left for college. My heart was lit up with joy the first time I saw him poke out his head from his plastic iglue. He was a very huge rat, wasn't very energetic, but always jumped out of his cage from the sound of me opening up his little wheat nugget bag. Sometimes I wish I could pet his little furry head again. R.I.P. old friend, you were the best. :)

  • CUTEST RAT EVER i gotta get my 2 rats ta do that

  • good grief!mine aren't that well behaved, fantastic training!

  • so cute!

  • Gorgeous video, gorgeous rat! Beautiful personality :)

  • Too cute!

  • You obviously had a great relationship with your wonderful ratty. Wonderful video, thank you!

  • I bet my Iris is cuter. She's a dwarf dumbo. Hehe.

  • She's not hooded, though. ;w;

  • I......I love you, Iris.

  • omg so cute! ♥

    broccoli-aholic xD

  • This makes me miss my 2 old rats ! They were awesome! Its like one of the smartest domestic pet u can have !

  • Iris is adorable. Did you train the ratty to turn around or was it natural? Cheers

  • epic background music!

  • I love it......

  • So cute how she runs to you with such enthusiasm, I have hooded rats as well and they love broccoli too! :)

  • what a good rat

  • was it hard to tame them

  • cute *-* i love rats :D i have 6 Rats :D

  • great! I keep my rats free in a big terrace, but I never admit them in the rest of the flat, even if after seeing your video I'm seriously tempted...What about yours? Do you close the cage sometime or just use it as a safe shelter for the rats? Thanks!

  • I SHALL EMPLOY THIS RAT'S DANCESKILZ ON THE LOCAL PUB TOMORROW. *twirl*

  • omg she is so cute is she still alive? 

  • @prettz182 Sadly, no. She is no longer with us, except in glorious twirling memories.

  • @MichelleKozlowski im sorry to hear that my little girl amy just passed away recently it sucks that they dont live so long :(

  • @MichelleKozlowski Awww im sorry :( she was so adorable and so tame to

  • @MichelleKozlowski Videos and youtube are cool that they can make even cute rats immortal.

  • @MichelleKozlowski Thats sad. I had a pet named Roxie, my first baby. She died in 09, she lived for 4 years. My third pet rat, Shoobie, sister of Puma died in 2010. I now have two of them, Omehlet and Puma. Puma just recently got a Tumor in the end of 2010, and it's gotten pretty big. I don't know how long she will survive. But she looks like Iris... Omehlet is blind. They love eachover.

  • @MichelleKozlowski how did i happen

  • @MichelleKozlowski Lolz u knew she is dead cause you have seen the date of that video. In every mouse video there is someone like you who asks this question.. (No Offence)

  • gimme my broccoli o.e!!!

    aww iris is adorable!

  • That an awesome rat!

  • How cute! Made my day!

  • I have the same proooblem!!! Haha

  • im getting a rat in 4 days! have any advice?

  • @basemalt Love it. Handle it a lot. Litter train it!

  • @MichelleKozlowski any advice on how to litter train them??

  • @MichelleKozlowski

    I agree. Handle them, play with them & be amazed!

    RIP, Iris, your Mommy & friends miss you, I'm sure.

  • @MichelleKozlowski yep that's the best advice. make sure you get two thow.

    and handle them alot in the beginnig. first though let them check out there new cage and then the home. make sure you have lots of treats for them. that way they'll get to know you better.

  • @basemalt Read up on rats, educate yourself with books, online forums, and make sure you have a small animal vet picked out for any medical problems that come along. Also, give it lots of love, patience and attention. Single rats get very lonely and depressed. Can you get two rats instead of one? Two are just as easy to take care of as one.

  • @basemalt Might be a bit late but: Don't get one rat, get at least two. Rats are social creatures, they don't like being alone.

  • @basemalt get more than one!!!

  • @basemalt

    Also they need cage mates! Though this is 7 months late lol

  • awww she's cute!! i want my rats back...

  • my rat pees on me all the time but i don't ker

  • that isso cute!

  • just got 2 rats that look like yours they are called fancy rats but could just be store name, i named one goliath and the other zeus :) goliath has a spot on his rump and likes my pocket, and zeus has a stripe down his back, and likes exploreing..espesscially in my shirt lol.

  • Lovely happy little rat! :)

  • female rats r so much more busy lol my males r laaaaaazy

  • I wish that my rats would do this but ...No chance. : ) They are too lazy.

  • LOLLLL hey u r so cute Iris :)

  • best. rat. EVAH!!!

  • Aww shes lovely

  • Now THAT is cute :)

  • cute rat ! lol