Bad rat steals bird food

The birds got some peanut butter in their dinner and Max the rat must have smelled it and was determined to go up there as soon as I let him out of his cage!
Don't allow pet birds and rats to interact. I only let him go up there that once, and only because the birds weren't around.

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Pets & Animals

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• pet
• rat

[XenosRDrake]

will the birds kill the rat?

[conure99]

The birds wouldn't deliberately hurt the rat and the rat wouldn't deliberately hurt the birds but they just aren't compatible. A few years ago I had a rat climb up and startle one of my birds - she (the bird) nipped him, he tried to push her away with his paw, scratching her slightly in the process. My bird needed to be on antibiotics for a week as a precaution, because rats (like most mammals) have bacteria in their saliva that is harmful to birds, and rats are constantly licking their paws.

[deathfalk]

@conure99 I thought you said they weren't compatible, and you only let him up there that once! D:

[conure99]

@deathfalk Youre right, I don't let the rats on the bird gym, the scratch incident happened with a different rat a few years earlier. I'd let the rat out to run around for a few minutes, and kind of forgot he was out, and my conure flew down to play on a basket that was on the floor. Needless to say, the rat must have thought the basket looked interesting as well.

[MaNdZiEy]

My rat ate my bird alive once...

Some how my rat got out of the cage when I was at work and I fucking found her in the birds cage with half a bird left.

[teentitansrock88]

@SlenderTroll turns out she had a respiratory infection and i think wet tail but i think there the same thing

[SlenderTroll]

@teentitansrock88 i doubt it. I gave mine small pieces of CHOCOLATE multiple times and she's never succumbed to it. Rats have a much higher resistance to chocolate, per pound (over 3xs more), than dogs or cats do, let alone peanut butter. Maybe you gave your rat too much peanut butter and it caused the animal's jaws to stick together which may have not allowed the rat to get anything to drink.

[SlenderTroll]

@PotterBuilt23 Birds can make great pets and can live a long time, compared to a rat's average LS of only 2.5-4 years. Rats are also more susceptible to cancer than most pet bird species are, because fancy rats have initially been bred in labs to study cancer research.

[SlenderTroll]

@PotterBuilt23 Bird poop doesn't smell and birds typically live longer, even the smaller varieties; however, birds are more delicate and cannot eat nearly as many foods that humans can eat (rats can). Also, rats can snuggle with you more than birds can because birds have hollow bones that can break easily. Also, birds are more susceptible to death from even the most minor of diseases; rats are more resilient.

[PotterBuilt23]

do you prefer a rat or a bird?

i had 2 rats but never a bird

[teentitansrock88]

@anythingnew no if it was i would be dead

[teentitansrock88]

no no no dont give them peanut butter mine jsut died from tht please dnot