single rat

Hello, I adopted a solitary rat today from the Animal Humane Society. She was surrendered due to being very aggressive with other rats. She is also extremely skittish. I had rats as a child but I always had a really good experience with rats getting along and never had a rat alone. They also...

Hello, I have 2 girl rats, (Raleigh,Nc) and I love them so much however it has gotten to a point I can longer take care of them the way I believe they deserve. One of the females has a large mammory tumor that has gotten out of hand, and the other is completely healthy. They are both sweet...

hi guys, yesterday i had to say goodbye to one of my beautiful boys due to a respiratory disease :( he lived with his brother and they’ve only just turned one this month. so far, james seems to be doing ok. he was looking around my room for william for about half an hour after he died but now he...

My oldest boy and the father to all my babies, has had an ear infection which caused a head tilt, he has been to the vet and is already on antibiotics and eye drops, I just wanted to know if there’s anything I can do do make his life more fun, he sleeps a bit now because of recovery but he...

While doing some general searching of pet rats, I found this study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/943795 Basically it details that rats kept alone are more likely to die sooner and become way more stressed than rats who are housed together. I'm not a super fan of this micro-study...