Originally posted by WolfChan
Keep in mind also that you have to be prepared to spend money on vet bills. Sometimes a LOT of money.

I second that!!! I have spent literally thousands of dollars already, it can be expensive, so you also have to consider that aspect. Although I have more rats than most people do.


As far as balls go, my experience has been if you lock them in there they hate it, if you disconnect it and leave it open in the cage it can provide a sort of nesting area, that my ratties like.

As far as disease is concerned, you can't catch much from a pet rat, and you cannot get rabies from them neither.