Rat help please

[Genny]

HEY EVERYONE,

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE HELP!

I WAS WONDERING...AT OUT PETSHOP THEY NEVER HAVE BABY RATS. THEY ALWAYS HAVE LARGE RATS AND THEY SAY THOSE ARE GROWN. THEY HAVE SMALL RATS (WHICH I THOUGHT WAS BABY RATS UP UNTIL A MONTH AGO WHEN I ASKED THEM) BUT THEY SAID THE SMALLER RATS ARE GROWN THAT THEY ARE JUST SMALLER RATS THAT WON'T GET AS BIG AS A NORMAL SIZED RAT.

WE WANT A BABY RAT THAT WILL GET BIG LIKE A REG. RAT. I NEVER KNEW THERE WAS LARGE RATS AND SMALL RATS. OH, AND THE PETSHOP ALSO HAS MEDIUM RATS TOO. WHAT KIND OF RAT DO YOU HAVE???

[Chilli]

Well... our petstore had their rats labeled the same way, but its for feeder purposes. The "small" rats are really just young rats that haven't gotten fully grown. How small are the small rats at your petstore? It doesn't sound right that they're small and full grown.

[Genny]

Well, I'll try to tell you the best I can what size the small ones are. They are a little bigger than a fully grown hamster. (not a dwarf hamster, but a regular hamster)

They have large rats there too, and it's the kind we're wanting, but we wanted to get it from a baby and raise it our selves, because a lot of the full grown ones are scared to let you hold them and they run from you when you reach inside to pet them.