In everyone's experience, what would be an easier pet to keep. A bunny or a rat. As you all might have noticed I'm asking a bunch of questions about bunnies on this forum, but I am also interested in rats. We did have a couple in the house one day, last week for a couple of hours...up until my husband FREAKED and insisted they go back to the store. He was screaming and yelling like a little sissy girl Obviously, deathly afraid of them. I told him that was backward/old man thinking. He associates these house rats with those big as cats dumpster rats. I told my dad about the rats and he had the same reaction as my husband...my dad is 79. So, there ya go, backward old man thinking. Oh, by the way, the rats went back to the store. For the few hours that we did have them, tho, we were in love. My kids just couldn't get enuf of them. Talk about loving and friendly little beasties..AND...I discovered, to my surprise, that my little allergic 5 yr. old was not allergic to them. They were all over her, too. Not a red blotch, not a spot, no itchy nose/ watery eyes. Nada. Nothing. I've read a few different sites on the computer and some say they are as easy to care for as all get out, not smelly, and I've read other places that they are dirty, smelly, destructive ie: if you let them out of the cage to run around they chew through everything and anything they can get their chompers on and basically a pain in the a$$ pet to have. I wish I could remember the site that I got that last bit of info from. I sort of just go here, there and everywhere then have a heck of a time remembering where I was.
I've talked to 3 different people in 3 different pet shops and they've all had rats and they all had nothing but the highest praise for the them.
What do you guys think??
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