Every Animal Has A Purpose
I found this gem of an idea while reading the RatChatter forums: Every animal has a purpose. We often take our furry, feathered and scaly friends for granted, and it’s this folly that makes us ultimately less like human beings, and more like the animals we once were. Kerrigannn, member of the RatChatter forums … [...]
Pet Promise Certificate
Get your Pet Promise Certificate as a better way to give the gift of pet love to a friend or family member.
Rat Years in Human Years
This is by no means a scientifically derived formula, it’s just some easy numbers based on a few simple correlations. So I picked some easy benchmarks to start with: average human lifespan, 80 years or 960 months; average rat lifespan, 30 months; then, human years to rat years would be about 32:1.
These numbers in themselves could be argued up or down.
YouTube: Rat Intros
I found this in my wanderings and thought if offers some great ideas and tips. YouTube video: “How to Introduce Pet Rats Together”
Gathering Kindness
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. ~~ Zig Ziglar What a handle on life to have. It’s seems like such a simple concept, help enough other people get what they want and you will get what you want. Of course, it [...]
Just Exactly Who Are You?!
… or, Introducing New Rats. We’ve made rat introductions before, and fortunately we generally meet with good success. This time we expected it to be a bit different … and for the most part, it really wasn’t all that bad. A few tips for introducing current rats to new adopted rats: Find a neutral area [...]
They’re So Cute!
It’s not like I haven’t heard that phrase before from Mrs. Rattitude, but she certainly was right like so many times in the past. We had returned to the “big box” pet store where our first adopted rats came from, Ratchet and Chamie. This is also the same place Casper, Trekkie, Angel and Charlie were [...]
