Sara Martin recently graduated from the University of South Florida with a master's degree in global sustainability and credits her pet rat Remi for helping her earn the achievement. If this rat's ...

Marshmallow was one of my pet rats who unfortunately has since passed away. In the Chinese calendar, 2020 is the Year of the Rat, and today, April 4, is “World Rat Day,” so what better day to ...

The earliest documented evidence of domesticated rats originates from Japan and dates back to the Edo period (1603 to 1868). The tradition of keeping fancy rats may have originated in Japan, but pet ...

Dogs have an amazing ability to form friendships with both people and animals. Their gentle nature perfectly complements the innocence of children and other kind-hearted creatures. This is certainly ...

When our pet rats die, we put them in the dumpster. I feel like it holds symbolism for them as a place of abundance and freedom, as well as being their traditional stomping grounds. A few days ago we ...

She’s got a soft spot for vermin. A so-called extreme rodent fanatic has gone viral after bathing her 50 rat “babies” in her kitchen sink. Michele Raybon, 51, of Palmdale, California, hasn’t stopped ...

The usual pets are dogs and cats, but what I have is very unusual. I have rats. When someone says rats, the first thing you would think of is those ugly creatures jumping out of trash cans and running ...

A creative pet owner has shared the unusual way she stopped her domestic rat from trying to eat her food. "It all started with a regular taco night," Cherie Jones, co-founder of Tiny Toes Rat Rescue ...

Picture the perfect pet that checks off all the boxes: Smart, trainable, highly social, affectionate, clean, hypoallergenic. What if it has all these traits but doesn’t purr or bark, because the ...