rat behavior

Hey, so had an accidental litter a while ago( yes, I learned my lesson. You can't leave them alone for 3 minutes!!!) We kept two females who are with mom. The dad, Biscuit, is alone. He gets to roam around a lot and always goes to the female cage trying to get in. I started looking for males(...

My rat of 2 years old suddenly bit me and drew blood, he has been biting me the last couple of days and I honestly have no idea why. I have 6 rats and 2 of my rats (the younger ones) keep pestering him and I think it gets to him, because I can barely even pet him anymore. I don't know what to do.

A little bit of background is yesterday I accidentally hurt my rat Rosaline. She's seemed to have forgiven me, but when I was kissing my other girl Viola (she loves little head kisses) Rosaline came over and bit right under my eye. It's swollen and there was a little bit of blood. I don't know...

Hiya, I’m a new rat owner and I’ve got 2 very young girlie rats, one of them is very very confident and getting extremely inquisitive, so much so that she has taken to jumping off my leg onto the floor and going underneath the cage. After I put her back in the cage she then climbed out through...

So, my two girls Susan and Kova have been inseparable from day one. But recently, my more dominant rat, Susan, has been constantly harassing Kova. And I mean, constantly. Susan will harass her when she's just drinking water or simply just sitting there. Kova is obviously not okay with this and...

Hi! I used to have a trio of rats name Turnip, Toast, and Porkchop. Toast died of a brain tumor at 2 1/2 years old, and Turnip followed soon after. The second I came home from the vet without Turnip, Porkchop began grunting at me! I assume he was trying to speak to me because he was lonely at...