My Pet Rat Goat, just after a bath

He's a cutie isn't he?
He's a Champagne (off-whitish, his fur is white with a slight yellow tint to it) hooded (black markings) Fancy Rat (pet type), he's about 6 months old and he's such a sweetheart.
Videos to follow giving examples about how gentle rats really are, test subject; Goat! The videos involve me putting my fingers through the bars with 1. a chew toy he knows he's supposed to chew on, and 2. food (lettuce), both with giving it to him in a big chunk with my fingers away, and with barely a hair of the food or chew toy piece inbetween two fingers, of which he takes gently without his teeth touching my fingers.

Rats aren't vicious, people, come on. The brown or black rat "pest" kinds that invade homes and carry diseases would only bite people out of fear or protection of young or itself. It's not their fault, they didn't choose to carry diseases and they have no sense of human laws. Don't needlessly kill them with painful and slow snap traps or sticky traps. If you must kill them, do it humanely.

I have owned a dwarf hamster, a regular hamster, a mouse, and my older sister owned a guinea pig. The hamsters bit the most, next to the rat, and then the guinea pig (gentlest next to the rat).
If I stick my fingers in the cage all my pet rat does is put his hands on my fingers and lick me to death, occasionally a light, barely felt nibble if he's upset with me for some reason. I have never ever been bitten by any rat. But I've been bitten more than 5 times by hamsters, which people claim to be a perfect kid's pet.
My family members, whom Goat doesn't know too well yet, have never been bitten. Even when I first got him and refused to pick him up by the tail (terrible for the rat, painful) and put my fingers under his belly and lifted him into his cage he didn't even nibble me, he just hid.

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[funnyguy12ify]

Arent u ment 2 have 2 rats

[ChibiBritishGir]

@funnyguy12ify Yes. He was alone for a while because he was aggressive to his cagemate, but I'd gotten him another one. Soon after however, for reasons I'd rather not state, I had to give them both away. Having only one rat is very bad. I only had him alone for a while because I -had- to.

[roxypuppy334]

What's the name of that cage? I'm getting a rat to

[ChibiBritishGir]

@roxypuppy334 Rats as I have found are overrated on both scales. They do not make good pets but they aren't cruel vicious monsters either. I don't remember the name of the cage but it was a guinnea pig starter cage from PetCo and it's about 2' long, 1 1/2' tall, 1' wide.

[whoosethedaddy]

No ones rated my'n chek out hamster in her tube

[ChibiBritishGir]

@whoosethedaddy This entire sentence makes no sense. For the love of god speak English in full structured sentences, it's what you went to school for.

[xaratslife100x]

(for other viewers considering the 1) :)

[xaratslife100x]

Rats are amazing pets. Please get at least two.. Unless you want a very unhappy one!!

[awesomeXS]

I got my rat, Crackers, in July. He was extremely friendly. In November, I got Mocha, because Crackers was seemingly very lonely. He had not seen another rat since June, before I bought him. They were fighting at first but now they are best budz.

Rats are the BEST PETS EVER!!!!

[zorgee100]

ohhhhh