Oh-ho-ho, you and me,/Giant brown rat upon my knee…
Hi, everybody, Mr. Nature here–with the Gambian pouched rat. If you look around youtube, you’ll find a lot of people have these as pets.
Around here we’ve had many regular mice and rats as pets. Their only fault is that they have short life spans. Rats and mice are smart, affectionate, and cuddly. In fact, they’re so smart that, if they lived ten years or so, they’d be winning chess tournaments and giving financial advice.
I don’t know how our cats would like sharing quarters with a Gambian pouched rat or any other kind, and I don’t propose to find out. But it sure looks like this would be a nice pet to have, especially if you don’t have a lot of space.
Yes, I know–some of you just have to see a mouse or a rat, and you’re outta here. But I also know that, when I used to bring one of my rats to see the vet, and had her–the rat, not the vet–sitting patiently on my shoulder, as good as gold, people who were at first quite unhappy even to see the rat wound up petting her and going kitchy-koo.
Praise God, for giving us animals that we can love and that can love us back. If we had been creating the world, we never would have thought of that.
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What a cute animal.
Yes, it is.
Once I almost caught a mouse inside a hollow brick, but it got away.
Rats that are domesticated, and made as pets are normally called, Fancy Rats.
I don’t know that a wild mouse would make a satisfactory pet: although there were mice in the Ford plant who would come out to be fed by hand when you were taking a break with a snack.
Aww