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Have you recently welcomed a pet rat into your home, or just looking to revise a few tips? Read the Blue Cross guide to caring for your pet rat.
Pet rats need time outside of their cage to explore and enjoy themselves, but always keep a close eye on them to make sure they don't hurt themselves. Every rat deserves a good home where they can be healthy and happy. Here are our top tips for creating a great home for your pet rats.
Rats make wonderful pets, but need proper care. Learn about rat behaviour and get expert tips on how to keep rats healthy, happy and safe.
- A Home For Your Rat – A Rat Cage
- A Spare Rat Cage
- A Travel Cage For Your Rat
- Bedding For Your Rat – That Is Safe
- Alternative Mini-Housing For Rats
- Hammocks For Chilling in
- The Materials to Clean The Cage
- Food For Your Rat – That Is Designed For Your Rat’S Health
- Good Quality Water Bottles – Avoiding Dehydration
- Good Quality Food Dishes
Possibly, the most important thing you will ever buy for your rat is its home. We’ve got a whole guide to what to look for when buying a cage and some cost-effective cages elsewhere on the site, so here we’re going to stick to the basics. 1. Spend as much money on a cage as you can but make sure that you’re buying extra floor area with that money– ...
Every home that has rats should have more than 1 cage. In fact, a good rule of thumb is to buy another rat cage for every occupied cage that you own. Yes, that’s right you want a 1:1 ratio – 1 cage in use, 1 hanging around waiting to be used. If you breed rats this stops being a guideline – you will need to separate the mother and babies from the o...
Yes, you need another cage but this time a completely different design.Sometimes, you have to take your rat elsewhere and if you transport it in its ordinary home that can be fairly problematic (rat cages are too large to easily carry about and you might drop or lose items from it – plus your rat might find the whole experience of a flying house qu...
A rat’s bedding is also something of a big deal.Rats spend about as much time (or possibly more time) in bed as human beings do and as you might expect – if you wrap up in something all day, it ought to be safe for you to use. Rats have particularly delicate respiratory systemsand you want to ensure that the bedding you choose won’t trigger any kin...
OK, this isn’t quite so important, but it is a nice touch. Rats quite like a little space to hideaway in that they can call their own. If you think of their cage as the neighborhood that they live in, then a little house can be very nice. You can buy plastic igloos, houses, and even edible homes at pet stores or on Amazon. You can also make one fro...
Rats are funny things and in the wild they love tunnels and they love climbing trees. What we haven’t seen them do, however, is come up with an alternative to hammocks. Which is odd, because if there’s one household item that rats absolutely love – it’s hammocks. They love to kick back in a hammock so much that they’ve even been known to move out o...
You should always be ready to clean a rat’s cage at a moment’s notice.We generally remove bedding and litter every day and then do a deep clean about every 7-10 days but you might end up with a sick rat, a dead rat or some other minor disaster at any time and then you’re going to have to spring into action and get cleaning. You should always have s...
Rats are funny little creatures when it comes to diet. You see because they can eat almost anything, it doesn’t mean that they should eat almost anything. We’ve got a good article here about what rats can and can’t eat in general terms here. However, the easiest way to feed a rat and keep it healthy and at the right weight is to buy a specially for...
Rats need water and if they go longer than 2 hours without it – they start to become dehydrated which is a fairly dangerous position for a small animal to be in. That means you want to buy a good quality water bottle. Cheap water bottles tend to disintegrate on first contact with your rat.The rat is a world class chewer and when it gets cheap plast...
Again, the rat’s urge to chew comes into play when it comes to food dishes. Cheap plastic dishes will be lucky to make it through a week or so before you need to go and buy new ones, so it’s best to invest in some decent quality bowls for your rats to eat from. We like to use ceramic bowls, that’s because they tend to be quite heavy which stops you...
Pet rats are adorable and intelligent small animals that are perfect in pairs. Find out more about caring for pet rats here, from feeding to play time. Find Practice
The ideal home for your rat. Rats need as large an enclosure as you can give them, as well as space to exercise. Large cages suitable for ferrets and chinchillas are a good size for rats. Rats are able to squeeze through very small gaps so check they can’t get out between the bars of the cage!
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Mar 24, 2020 · Housing. Having the correct housing for your pet rat is important. You should choose a cage that will be big enough to home however many rats you’re planning on having. It needs to be a safe place for your pet rat and escape proof. The bigger the better as rats enjoy and are happiest when they have room to explore, play and climb.
