Pet rats - why it's important to have two or more

Food for thought for those considering buying just one rat on its own, or those who already have just one rat:

Rats are really sociable animals and need company all the time, not just human interaction and cuddles but rat companionship. Someone to groom and to groom them back, someone to curl up with for warmth and safety at night, someone to eat food beside so that they don't feel vunerable. No matter how great an owner you are or how much time your rat spends with you, you still have to sleep and work and no human can replace a second rat for the interaction they get from one another. It's so important for their quality of life to have a buddy with them at all times.

Please ask any questions and leave comments. I hope the video can start to show the connection and bond that two rats form. Whiskey and Womble would never want to be without the other.

Please note: If you do only have one rat at the moment then it's important that you don't simply get another rat and put it into the same cage. In that situation rats will often fight and could kill each other. For advise on introducing rats to each other please message me.

I also just want to add that recently Womble has been pretty ill and Whiskey has been so great to him. He cuddles and grooms him and won't leave his side. They know when something is wrong with the other and will do what they can to help.

Thanks for watching

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[dazza69ification]

watching this, makes me wonder why anyone hates rats

[daynaleigh101]

miss my little buddy big time. (rescued from the feeder cage) didn't know their lifespan back then but i feel he loved us more than a lifetime.

[DiddleySquatt]

Absolutely beautiful. What adorable rats. And very nice background song. Love it.

[nymphalidae100]

beautiful! At 1:35 sec is really cute :)

[themysteriouskiller]

@kelseysbasement1992 If you don't have them in a cage, then that's your problem. It's dangerous not to contain them, and wild rats will fight with them and sometimes mate with them, and they won't usually be very tame because you don't have the chance to handle them. What are they eating?

[kelseysbasement1992]

@themysteriouskiller my rat keeps geting lost in my room acts 2 wild & never eats it very skiny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kelseysbasement1992]

@themysteriouskiller well i had them 4 awhille & it runs off & gets lost in my room all the time!!!!!!

[themysteriouskiller]

@kelseysbasement1992 They're not "too wild". Probably just scared or young. I'd suggest going to ratforum . com (no spaces) and checking out the trust training sticky, rather than just having me type it all out again :3

Heck, you ought to just register on the site. I think it would be lots of help to you if your ratties are skittish or you otherwise need help with them.

[kelseysbasement1992]

@themysteriouskiller y cant i tame mine its 2 wild???

[themysteriouskiller]

@kelseysbasement1992 That is absolutely incorrect in every way. I have four at the moment and have had others before, and never have I had one who was mean or impossible to tame. When you keep a rat alone, it becomes clingy, depressed, and neurotic. It will cling to you because you're all it has. That's just plain not fair to do to ANY animal.

This is a great video, what cute boys!

[kelseysbasement1992]

if u get 2 of them they just get mean & u cant tame them!!!!!!

[maricab2006]

beautiful video and adorable ratties! i have mice now (1 deer mouse and 2 house mice) and yes, they do need each other for so many reasons... <3