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 ...

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 ...

Rats are hardwired to chew, and they’ll sink their teeth into almost anything they find. That instinct usually leaves behind scraps of fabric or torn cardboard, but sometimes it comes at a higher cost ...

When most people think about getting a pet, the common options are dogs, cats, birds etc. But have you ever considered rats? Before you conclude and say, ‘God forbid’, you should know that having a ...

Dear Dr. Jorden: I have a great menagerie of animals as pets. I would like to get a pet rat or two, but someone told me that it was illegal to own rats. Is that true? I called the Billings Animal ...