Girl gets finger mangled by pet rat!

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.

This is a video to prove rats aren't evil, vicious, biting, disease-carrying monsters. I picked Goat up from a feeder shop where he lived in a 10 gallon aquarium with 30 other rats of mixed genders and a tiny food bowl, when he was just a baby, just past sexual maturity (which happens extremely early in rats)
As you can see in the video, I'd given him a chew toy where he can easily grab it, and then I gave him a chew toy with barely enough room to smell it between my fingers and he gently reached around and took it without biting me for it or lashing out or any of the silly things rats are associated with.
He has no training whatsoever other than learning his name. He is not a lab rat. He goes through no tests or experiments. He's not a Rat of Nimh. He's just a regular feeder rat I took in as a pet.

Next video will be an example using something a little more "dangerous" - Food. Specifically, lettuce, which he loves.


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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