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All About America's Favorite pets: RATS
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Magazine dated 2005 volume 3

How Cool Are Rats!

You can’t get much cooler than a rat. Some people don’t seem to have the appreciation for these great creatures that they deserve, but that’s OK. For the rest of us phobia-free pet owners, the rat encompasses the best qualities of a companion animal: intelligent, inquisitive, sociable. You’ll never be bored with a rat as your friend. Articles include:

The One For You - This all-inclusive guide helps you find your perfect rat match.
With whiskers wiggling, nose twitching and paws waving, that adorable pet rat practically begs to come home with you. You’d love to have the furry friend join your family, but you wonder if it will be as healthy and happy once you bring it home. Want to feel more confident about your selection?

One rat or two? Rats need company. As much as people would like to be their primary companions, are they able to fulfill that need? Should you adopt a male or a female rat? Most experts agree that both genders can make great companions, but there are subtle personality and physical differences between the two. Rats are capable of learning a bagful of tricks. With dedication (and the right treats), a rat can even learn to respond to its name and use an in-cage litter box.

Decode Your Rat’s Behavior - Examine which actions are normal, which aren’t, and what they mean. Each animal has a job in the wild. Female rats are born to produce more rats, which involves a constant search for food, finding a male rat, building a nest, delivering and nursing the babies, gathering food for them as they get older, and becoming pregnant again before the first litter has left the nest. This is a hectic, busy lifestyle and future generations depend on it.

Create a comfy abode for your rat.
How a rat roommate will change your life.
How to take good care of your rat through all its life stages.
Keep your rat well-groomed with these simple steps.

Time To Visit The Vet - Inside the top 10 threats to your rat’s health.
Rats hide illness well, so monitor their appetites and activity levels daily to discover illness as soon as possible. Included are the causes and symptoms of 10 common ailments in pet rats. Do you know how to respond in an emergency? You’ll rest easier if you know some basic first aid.

A nutritional diet = healthy, active pet. Rats and humans are more similar than you’d think. Just like humans, rats are omnivores, meaning they can eat a wide variety of foods and are not limited to a meat diet or plant diet.

From Pest To Pet - Follow the rat from Europe to America.
The fancy rat or pet rat is typically associated with one species, the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), also called the Norway rat. It’s this larger rat, not the smaller roof rat (Rattus rattus) that gets all the attention. So, why did the brown rat become the rat of choice?
“When both rats are introduced into the same environment, the Norway rat generally dominates,” said Brian Lee of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Rat and Mouse Club of America. “In the United States, the roof rat is common only in a few warm coastal areas where they manage to share territory with the Norway rat, but the Norway rat is common everywhere. I believe the same is true in Europe. So I can only speculate that when most people started keeping some of the wild rats, they were mostly Norway rats.”

The Trick To Training - The intelligent rat easily masters tricks such as running a labyrinth, hoop-jumping and bowling. Urban rats learn to visit the same trash can repeatedly if goodies can always be found inside. But there’s more to rats than just the instinct to survive – they appreciate affection too. Animal trainers have found that positive reinforcement is the only effective training method for rats.

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