Rats
I’ve been thinking lately about getting a couple of rats. I’ve read that every rat has a very distinctive personality and they make really good pets. They can be house trained and even come when you call their name. They can easily identify humans by their smell and are loyal to their owners just like dogs are. I even read about one rat owner on the web who would crawl on her hands and knees on the floor with her rat on her back, and the rat learned to drive around the room her like a car!
I think the closest rattery to Kingston is in Ottawa, so maybe I will have take a trip on the train. Or maybe I’ll go to the Belleville Humane Society. I know I don’t want to buy any rats from a pet store since almost all of them buy their rodents from rat mills that exist primarily to make a profit providing live meals for snakes.
Today I subscribed to the mailing list of the Ontario Chapter of The Rat and Mouse Club of America.
Here’s a video of somebody’s pet rat. It looks like they have a three-storey powder-coated steel cage from this company in Pennsylvania. Those cages are really nice, but they cost about $100 US, and I bet shipping and customs is quite a bit too. Maybe I can make my own cage somehow…
