I don't have rats, or have any desire to have them, but I find your rat videos really calming and a bit of an escape from the chaos of life. Hearing someone share their knowledge and passion about animals they obviously deeply love and care for is really relaxing. Thank you for your content! You've made me think of rats in a much more positive light.
Omg Emi, I can't believe you reacted to mine ❤ Just an update, ive moved things round in my room and now the rats have all of my room to run around in, I made a ramp to go from the cage to the floor and I've also now painted the ikea wine rack as a climbing frame as there's no where they can escape! Thanks again ❤😁 xx
Hi! I'm going to do an IKEA run next week because I need to cordon off part of my pet room! I've tried looking on their website and also Amazon for a shoe rack but I can't find anything suitable. Do you know the exact name of what you are using for a cordon and where you got them from? If there are any other suggestions for stuff I can get the ratties from IKEA don't hesitate to let me know! Many thanks 😄
I have parakeets, so I figured this out real quick. I now just do a general sweep of the entire pet store to see if I can cross any items from the intended animal to unintended animals. Using wild bird feeders for my indoor birds is so much easier for me to keep track of. Using dome cat litter boxes for my chickens keeps them from eating their own eggs and wasting less nesting material. And using ferret and bird toys for my rats is cheaper and gives me more variety.
When I had rats, I just threw a blanket down on my bed or a couch and let them run around. It's a pretty easy area to let them play on since they can't get into much trouble, and you can put a bunch of boxes and toys up there for playing, and a small travel cage for a litter box. My rattie boys loved playing on my bed, and it was also a good for cuddles too.
9:32 Wow I didn’t know that about shoe storage racks! That’s very useful :) Another fantastic video and I’m so glad that you continue to teach others info about proper rat care. This video is very well put together, thank you 💕🐀🐾💖
Hey! I am the one you reacted to at 13:35!! Just wanted to say that it if you want to create one yourself you need: A hot glue gun (which was around £6 in The Range) Lollipop sticks (Again from the Range I think it was 500 for £1) A pen for decorating This was very easy and fun to make! I suggest you should try it! Eric says hi!
i don't have a free roam area for my two rats yet. For now i just brought them to my bed and let them run around there. This video gave me tons of good ideas!
@@napdragon2499 Sometimes females do that when they are pregnant. Ussually though most rats just do it when the bedding gets dirty and they want to remove it from their area. SOMETIMES though, it's just behavioral quirk of a bored rat. These rats will do it with fresh bedding. I try not to breed rats who throw bedding out of boredom because I don't want to breed more like that and have messy floors lol.
I couldn't stop laughing when I seen the part with the rat looking through the peaky hole in that piece of clothing. Great video and topic today👍 I also wanted to say, I received your rat paintings in the mail and they are adorable. You did a great job packing/shipping and now I got my very own pictures of "Wispa" and "Humbug". To add to their cute little paintings. Thanks again and keep up the great work your doing.
These are great inspirations! I always create a free roaming area for my grandpas on my couch now because they have their age issues (one even has hind leg paralysis) and are pretty lazy. They get a little maze, boxes filled with different stuff they have to search through for food, things to destroy, a cuddly blanket and they can climb safely. But most of the time, they will just chill and cuddle. Cuddle time with my boys is the best time every day. 🥰
I recommend using old Pringles cans as hideouts or tubes in their cage, they'll LOVE it because even if you clean the can it has a leftover Pringles scent
just make sure there is no spacing between the popsicles where their little legs can get stuck! my hamster los his leg when i had him 7 years ago and diy'ed popsicle fortress :( (he was okay tho and thrived with his three legs and little stump)🤗
I use a playpen made from the tutorial by Shadow The Rat. It’s really useful, easy to store and quick to set up. Mine is 4 ‘small’ Home Depot boxes which cost $.99 each. Very cheap and easy.
I work fulltime so sadly I went from everyday free roam to only once a week :( I recently just made them a maze for out of cage time and this video gave me a lot more fun ideas!
I love your videos so much! I’ve watched all of your rat videos and they have helped me sooooo much with rat knowledge. I have been giving my parents lots of information about them for the last 4 months, and they said I can get rats! Well, I can get them when we get new house of our own, which will be a little while.. but I’m so happy that I can get them! Your the reason people want to know more about rats, mice ect. 🙃 Thank you so much!
The pigeon Weirdo That’s not rude at all, thank you for providing information to me. I have already planned getting my 2 rats from a shelter and, I’m friends with someone at the shelter. I have already saved everything I need, and I will be getting everything the month before I get my rats. I would love more information, and I’ve been watching so many rat videos. I know I need the cage bar space to be 1/2 inch and the cage should be tall and pretty wide, for example a ferret cage. Also I have been working with rats for a little while so I know a good amount of information, but I definitely want to learn as much as possible. I have a bunny and she is the sweetest and she roams around my living room all of the time. ( The bunny and rats would never be in contact, I don’t let my bunny anywhere except for the living room) I am so exited to be part of the rat community. I will not be getting rats that soon at all though.. I live with my friend and they hate rats a lot, I tried giving them more information on them and showing them how cute rats are but they hate them. Is there anything anyone might know I could do to help my friend like them so that I could maybe not have to move to get rats?
Rat Lover5454 the pigeon weirdo gave some good advice about finding out what your friend doesn’t like and then educating them. Their hatred could also be rooted in fear, if you get rats I’d try to get her to interact with them, maybe give them treats or just watch them, or get her to play with them with you. It would be like a bonding experience. Not everyone is open to doing that but if she is it could be beneficial in her realizing they aren’t horrible little creatures. This is what I did when I owned reptiles my sister was afraid of - I just convinced her to interact calmly with my snakes and she learned that they weren’t really evil or gross.
worrmm Thank you for the information! It’s actually a guy, and he is 30 years older than me... he’s older and my family has been renting his house for 14 years.. I tried to talk to him but he started talking about how he’s going to kill my rats if I get them and he is putting rat traps around the house.. so I’m waiting for a little to talk to him again because I’m a little scared to bring it up again. But rats make me really happy and I’m still going to school and with the whole Covid-19 thing right now I just really want to have two new best friends that I can hang out with all day. I’m going to have a good amount of free time and working at my my vet and it’s just the perfect time.
The toilet was a failure 😂 I had to add a second in the back left so now they have two. They do go in them but just for good measure they like to poop in the opposite corners 🙄
I have found that my rats most love the simplest things like cardboard boxes. I really think that all the little houses and stuff are great for them too, but they are more for the benefit of the owners because they look nicer. I have my rats in my art/craft room, which is constantly a mess, so I don’t let them free roam on the floor there. I have the Critter Nation double cage for them, and I placed it inside a closet and took the doors off the closet. When I open the top doors the rats can safely come and go from the cage to the top of the cage and to the shelf in the closet. The cage fits perfectly under the shelf with about three inches between the two, and the rats LOVE to hang out in that space between the cage and the closet shelf, I think because they feel safe and secure in the relatively tight (height-wise) but spacious (area-wise) space. The space on the closet shelf is like a play space, with lots of things to climb on and in/out of, but we still need to add more things. We plan to bolt some interesting shelves and staircases to the walls inside that closet area. We have a lot of hammocks and hanging tunnels that don’t all fit in the cage, so we will figure out how to hang them inside the closet too. I LOVE the idea of designing little spaces made from popsicle sticks!! I will try that! :) :) :)
Girl keep up the amazing work! I love my mice and rats when i had them but i never found a youtube channel that i cared to watch that discussed them. Thank you for the top notch info and content
Well to be fair my parents and I didn’t have a dedicated room for the rats at first. And we didn’t have time to do everyone because we were seeing the breeders so soon
You should deffinetly have an area for playing, if you don't have a lot of space, then you can throw some blankets and toys on a couch or bed for them to play on.
@@thrillhous6407 you dont have to have a separate room for them just an area where they can free roam. And yeah so what lol either do everything before you go the the breeder or wait with getting them until everything is ready. It's not like you absolutely had to get them that quickly. Either wait with going to a breeder or hurry up getting everything ready that's not an excuse lol
this inspired me to upgrade my rats free roam area. i used to just let them walk around in my room but now i added boxes and i asked my parents to spare carton coffee cans so i can use them as tunnels. i used to do that in our last house, but since we moved i kinda stopped
my rat just died and I don’t know what to do. I knew his quality of life would decrease because of no longer having a cagemate (she passed away in January) but i just wasn’t expecting it to happen so soon. I loved watching your content to prepare for owning rats, I miss them so dearly.
I lost my pair both on the same day, Oct 2nd. I miss them so much! One of the rats I owned that passed in the one is my profile picture, her name is Storm, but I nickednamed her Stormwormy, and my albino rat, Frostywosty. Who mainly goes by Frostbite, or Frost for short. Rest in peace babies!
Early hi I love watching your account to learn about rats because I am going to be getting some soon I have a question are dumbo rats good and do you own that kind?
I was really looking forward to this video of yours, it's a really fun topic, thanks for reviewing and giving tips! (: I'm not owning rats yet for a while but I'm slowly getting ready for them, researching, planning and buying stuff, and I just ordered like 300 ping pong balls for a ball pit recently and now you mentioned they don't use yours that much haha noo! I hope they will like it, maybe if I'll scatter around some food in it. :D
Lol hopefully your future rats enjoy the ball pit. Someone else commented saying their girls LOVE their ball pit. You could also add some ping pong balls to their pea fishing dish, to make it a little challenging for them to get to the peas. (I wouldn't do this on their first pea fishing experience; wait for them to be comfortable and confident first)
@@MyPerfectMischief Ohh haha that's relieving to hear, thanks, still got a chance then! :D Also thanks for the tip about the level up pea fishing, didn't think about that!
I have a big walk in closet, and I made that the free roam area, it has a huge rat castle made of wood and boxes, the rest of the closet is for them to run in (which is covered in blankets so they don't do their business on the carpet), getting the rats soon and hope they like it
We have got our rats out every day since we got them, but we are staying at my aunt’s house for about 5/6 days in a few weeks, and we are leaving the rats for my grandma to looks after. She will not be able to get them out however; do you think it will be too bad to leave them for a week without a playtime? I am a bit worried, but I think it will be fine because it is only one week of their entire life.
I am not an expert but i don’t think it’s perfect for them. But remember, you can’t be perfect every time! You could try to add a wheel in their cage and hope they use it (some don’t like wheels), you can also add some new toys so they have something new to play with. You can also expand a little (add a little cage with a tunnel) and in there you decorate as if it was a playground for them, you know? Hope this helped a little :)
I am a pet rat breeder. Honestly, they'll be fine. If they don't have one already, consider putting a dig box in their cage for them, also provide your grandma with a few new exciting toys for her to switch out every day for them to explore and have some mental enrichment. And when you guys are reunited, an extra long play time is in order! 😁
charleise w thank you, that’s a great idea to put different toys in their cage every day, I will also get them a wheel, they may not like it, but if they do then it’ll be a bit of exercise for them :)
I'm going to get big rats soon. I already set up their cage, it's a two-story ferret cage. I'm planning on getting two male rats, but I don't know how to set up my room as a bit of a free roam space, especially since I already have a free roam bunny in my room. The rest of the rats that I have in my room are just feeder rats, and not to mention the mice! But they aren't in very good enclosures right now. The small rats are in an aquarium. The only other option I had was to put them in something smaller.
This gives me an idea on how I would lime to have one as when we move house next year I can get my dad to build me one in our room ready for my rats ☺️
I share one room (student apartment) with my two boys so I had to implement their toys in my room in a way it doesn't look too messy. A lot of their stuff is hiding under my bed, sofa, and table for example. Since their cage is on a high bureau I had to build a tower of cartoon boxes so they could move up and down as they want. For that reason, they also have a water bowl, food ball, and toilet also hidden in my room xD
I love watching your reacting to your viewers’ rat free roam areas and cages videos. I learned a lot from them and got some new ideas, but I’ve always been wondering one thing. It’s about dig boxes. If you and your viewers use wood shavings and/or soil, how often do you change? I guess it depends on frequency/length of time used by numbers of rats, but I’d like to know. Because it takes a lot of wood shavings/soil to fill the box deep enough for your rats to enjoy and if you have to change weekly, I don’t think I can offer (afford) such box to my rats all the time. I have 3 rattie boys.
If it’s a deep base cage I do a deep clean and change the shavings once a month to 6 weeks and turn it every week. Soil in a dig box only really when it starts to smell
@@Emiology I didn’t expect to get a reply from you bc it was a video from two years ago. And the reply was so quick! Thank you! Now I have better understanding of dig box care 😌 From the east coast of USA ❤🐀❤
My mom used to free roam our rats on the sofa for playtime, we even had one trained to go from his cage down the hall to the couch (supervised of course) they always stayed on the couch and our cats never bothered them (they were well fed indoor only cats) The only thing I suggest though if you free roam rats on furniture or a bed put a blanket over it to protect it from their pee/poo.
I'm getting my first boys in a week and am unable to give them a full room but my things don't take up much room and im going to make playpen for them! I've been collecting/making stuff for it from when i decided to get rats, and im so excited!
Another idea: cut up lots of pieces of fleece and put it in a mesh free standing laundry basket. My rats love to get in there and climb around, making burrows. I hide treats in the fabric for them to find.
My rat has the whole house to roam and he's really never in his cage. But he's the last remaining one at almost 3 years old. He usually ends up in the laundry basket for a nap.
my auntie has rats and she lets them walk around her house and sit on the couch with her/go under the couch but shes not sure if she should get a specific rat room/area with toys and stuff? (she cant use the internet well so i was googling for her and i found this haha)
I just got a 16 week old rescue rat and she is petrified of new things and people and my older, socialized rats are so confused why she won’t come out for play time
One day a bunch of small animal UA-camrs need to come together and create a shop where they teach you proper care and treat their small animals right😅 if only it was that easy....
I got four rats. I started with three in a double critter nation but I found out one of them is a girl so I went to the pet shop (one that didn’t support breeding mills) and got another girl, split the double critter nation in half, and split them up by gender. They are adorable! The girls are named Rosie and Daisy, and the boys are named Churro and Remy. I haven’t free roamed them yet though. 😅
I built my babies a big play area out of heavy duty cardboard boxes and duct tape. And they have tons of fun stuff to play with. I put them in for an hour a day and sit with them in here too. They use me as a climbing frame 😂 looking for more ideas to make fun toys for them!
I’ve pondered a few times about the feasibility of making a full rat room as their main enclosure. I’m sure it would need a crazy amount of rat-proofing to keep them from chewing through the walls or getting out through vents or something 😅 Probably not a practical goal
For anyone who doesn’t have the space for a free roam aria, I take min into the bathroom and let them loose when ever I shower or have to poop lol bathrooms are Usually the safest and easiest to clean up after
My cages are on the floor so they can climb back in when they need to go. I have a few cages they can go in and out of. I don't block my bed but.....yeah..... I'm definitely going to need to do that. 🤣They seem to be more interested in climbing on me more than any other toy in the room. I'm not complaining because I love their company and love kisses😊
My rats are so difficult in the sense that they eat everything!! Any zip tie or shower curtain hook I put in they attack within moments and the IKEA tie holders are a wonderful idea.. If they last more than a week with my boys! They're cute though so I can forgive them.
My favorite moment with my albino rats was when porridge stole a whole cracker from me and tried to pull into a tunnel it looked so silly as it was such a big cracker compared to him
I've had my rats for a while. I used to have them in the walk in shower but they are much bigger now. And all three, is wow! So, I'm really trying to find some things to add to my new play pen I'm making, I need a few more boxes. The carbord ones are much cheaper as long as you can make sure they cant escape !
I’m getting two male rats soon and I already have there cage set up but I’ve never had rats before and I’ve done most of my research here because the videos are entertaining and very helpful. I was stuck on my free roam area so this was really helpful and I would love some more advice! I’m getting them from a breeder, and I was wondering if they would try to run away, during free roam, and if it would scare them to have dogs near by.
Hello, Emiology, I was wondering for rat free roams if a bathroom would work. would it be too small for four boys? any ideas on how to rat-proof a room and how to clean anything they pee/poo on?
I don't think you should keep them in a playpen, it wouldnt be a safe, enriching, or even a good place for them to stay. Maybe try resorting to a cage instead, and make sure the bar spacing isn't to wide. Hopefully that helped from a fellow beginner rat owner!
Hi em! I love your videos so much and I’m getting 2 rats in October and I’m looking for the cage now. Do you think the prevue pet products feisty ferret cage is suitable with adjustments? ❤️🐁🐀
Thus gave me so many ideas for my new rats I'm getting in 4 days!! I'm getting 4 sister and they will be free Rome for 2 hours and when I get a bigger attachment to there cage and go back to school they will be free Rome for 1 an hour. I just got 7 new mice 6 sisters and 1 brother in his own cage. My 3 sister mice also just died about 2 months ago and i feel like I'm ready for 7 mice and 4 rats
Yay !! I was so scared to free roam my mice in my room because I thought I’d never find them again lol !! Today I allowed to them run around for the first time !! I did “ free roam “ them before but only in a small cage 70x50 cm and I don’t think they enjoyed it anymore ! Thank you for the video !!
My watching all her videos even tho I don’t have rats or mice:
👁👄👁
That’s me watching baking videos even though I burn the cake every single time I even try and bake
Same
I have gerbils and a hamster
KittenPlaysVideoGames Cool I guess
I love gerbils
I don't have rats, or have any desire to have them, but I find your rat videos really calming and a bit of an escape from the chaos of life. Hearing someone share their knowledge and passion about animals they obviously deeply love and care for is really relaxing. Thank you for your content! You've made me think of rats in a much more positive light.
Omg Emi, I can't believe you reacted to mine ❤
Just an update, ive moved things round in my room and now the rats have all of my room to run around in, I made a ramp to go from the cage to the floor and I've also now painted the ikea wine rack as a climbing frame as there's no where they can escape! Thanks again ❤😁 xx
Which one did u make
Lucky!
@@Therealrhiley 6:50
Hi! I'm going to do an IKEA run next week because I need to cordon off part of my pet room! I've tried looking on their website and also Amazon for a shoe rack but I can't find anything suitable. Do you know the exact name of what you are using for a cordon and where you got them from? If there are any other suggestions for stuff I can get the ratties from IKEA don't hesitate to let me know! Many thanks 😄
I no joke broke my nail clicking on this
Saaaaammmmeeee!!!!!!!........
BetZology lol 😂 It actually kind of hurts
Isabella Perez lol your profile make this even more funny
Sariah Reese haha I love my profile. Sometimes I use it to scare off my siblings from going on my phone
Isabella Perez oh ok I would do the same 😂
I’m getting mice and although this is for rats this gave me a few ideas for my mice free roaming area 🐀🐁
I got my girls in March, so all I am saying is, good luck its a decision you won't regret!
Imms&Olls Thank you ^^
@@dragon_ash6078 :)
Me And Pets Forever wait you can free roam your mice 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 oh my God how have I been living my life not knowing this
Isabella Perez you should free roam all small animals it helps you bond
I recommend going into the bird sections of pet shops, they have larger toys such as ladders and branches and they tend to be cheaper as well
Oooh ty I’m getting rats soon !
I have parakeets, so I figured this out real quick. I now just do a general sweep of the entire pet store to see if I can cross any items from the intended animal to unintended animals. Using wild bird feeders for my indoor birds is so much easier for me to keep track of. Using dome cat litter boxes for my chickens keeps them from eating their own eggs and wasting less nesting material. And using ferret and bird toys for my rats is cheaper and gives me more variety.
Tysm!!! I’ve been looking and everything is so expensive
When I had rats, I just threw a blanket down on my bed or a couch and let them run around. It's a pretty easy area to let them play on since they can't get into much trouble, and you can put a bunch of boxes and toys up there for playing, and a small travel cage for a litter box. My rattie boys loved playing on my bed, and it was also a good for cuddles too.
Can’t get into much trouble??? Are you sure you have rats? Lol
i don't have or even want a rat but that doesn't stop me from watching all of your videos about them from start to finish lmao
Wow Emiology thank you so much for using my pictures!❤ And yess, it is willow (:
The planted dig box did not last 🤣 I had planted grass and cress seed.
Hold my beer - we will add the shelves!
Thank you for the lovely review 💓
9:32 Wow I didn’t know that about shoe storage racks! That’s very useful :) Another fantastic video and I’m so glad that you continue to teach others info about proper rat care. This video is very well put together, thank you 💕🐀🐾💖
Hey! I am the one you reacted to at 13:35!!
Just wanted to say that it if you want to create one yourself you need:
A hot glue gun (which was around £6 in The Range)
Lollipop sticks (Again from the Range I think it was 500 for £1)
A pen for decorating
This was very easy and fun to make! I suggest you should try it!
Eric says hi!
i don't have a free roam area for my two rats yet. For now i just brought them to my bed and let them run around there. This video gave me tons of good ideas!
i’m in the exact same spot!! haha
same!
My rats flipped there house over THERE CRAZY
😂
@@mooseandfredvr6928 Ik and today there moves the house from the first floor to the third floor
I had a whole ass bin for bedding and one of my rats dug and threw half of it out of the cage 😔😔
@@napdragon2499 Sometimes females do that when they are pregnant. Ussually though most rats just do it when the bedding gets dirty and they want to remove it from their area. SOMETIMES though, it's just behavioral quirk of a bored rat. These rats will do it with fresh bedding. I try not to breed rats who throw bedding out of boredom because I don't want to breed more like that and have messy floors lol.
I couldn't stop laughing when I seen the part with the rat looking through the peaky hole in that piece of clothing. Great video and topic today👍 I also wanted to say, I received your rat paintings in the mail and they are adorable. You did a great job packing/shipping and now I got my very own pictures of "Wispa" and "Humbug". To add to their cute little paintings. Thanks again and keep up the great work your doing.
I’m glad they arrived safely 💕
Ah thanks x that's io xx
R.I.P extremely broken laptop, you will be missed 😔
These are great inspirations! I always create a free roaming area for my grandpas on my couch now because they have their age issues (one even has hind leg paralysis) and are pretty lazy. They get a little maze, boxes filled with different stuff they have to search through for food, things to destroy, a cuddly blanket and they can climb safely. But most of the time, they will just chill and cuddle. Cuddle time with my boys is the best time every day. 🥰
Thank god you are here to educate us on rats- I suck at researching on certain topics so you are a big help! 💕💕
My girls have a ball pit and love it! They also like to pierce them and try and kick them out of the storage box. 😂
You are such a good inspiration
Yesss! I’ve been waiting for the new Emiology video all morning!
My rats are like
Expensive toys- ignores them
Toilet roll tubes and cardboard- OMG MOST EXITING THING EVER
I recommend using old Pringles cans as hideouts or tubes in their cage, they'll LOVE it because even if you clean the can it has a leftover Pringles scent
So much inspiration here! I am so tempted to make a popsicle stick fortress for my rats now. Also, love your t-shirt!
just make sure there is no spacing between the popsicles where their little legs can get stuck!
my hamster los his leg when i had him 7 years ago and diy'ed popsicle fortress :(
(he was okay tho and thrived with his three legs and little stump)🤗
oms i am just noticing this comment is 2yrs old and not 2hrs😭
well hope it went well!
@@shenynolte1400 oh wow! I forgot all about this, no I did never end up making the popsicle fortress lol. That is very good advice though
I love all of these reacting videos because they're so informative! I learn new things from each one for my own ratties
I use a playpen made from the tutorial by Shadow The Rat. It’s really useful, easy to store and quick to set up. Mine is 4 ‘small’ Home Depot boxes which cost $.99 each. Very cheap and easy.
I sometimes free roam my rats on my deck with an animal fencing to keep them in and they seem to love it!
I work fulltime so sadly I went from everyday free roam to only once a week :( I recently just made them a maze for out of cage time and this video gave me a lot more fun ideas!
Making your own snuffle mat is very easy too! I made one myself and all you need is a plastic mat with holes, some fleece fabric, and fabric scissors.
I love your videos so much! I’ve watched all of your rat videos and they have helped me sooooo much with rat knowledge. I have been giving my parents lots of information about them for the last 4 months, and they said I can get rats! Well, I can get them when we get new house of our own, which will be a little while.. but I’m so happy that I can get them! Your the reason people want to know more about rats, mice ect. 🙃 Thank you so much!
The pigeon Weirdo That’s not rude at all, thank you for providing information to me. I have already planned getting my 2 rats from a shelter and, I’m friends with someone at the shelter. I have already saved everything I need, and I will be getting everything the month before I get my rats. I would love more information, and I’ve been watching so many rat videos. I know I need the cage bar space to be 1/2 inch and the cage should be tall and pretty wide, for example a ferret cage. Also I have been working with rats for a little while so I know a good amount of information, but I definitely want to learn as much as possible. I have a bunny and she is the sweetest and she roams around my living room all of the time. ( The bunny and rats would never be in contact, I don’t let my bunny anywhere except for the living room) I am so exited to be part of the rat community. I will not be getting rats that soon at all though.. I live with my friend and they hate rats a lot, I tried giving them more information on them and showing them how cute rats are but they hate them. Is there anything anyone might know I could do to help my friend like them so that I could maybe not have to move to get rats?
Thank you so much for the advice! I will try that.👍🏽😁
Rat Lover5454 the pigeon weirdo gave some good advice about finding out what your friend doesn’t like and then educating them. Their hatred could also be rooted in fear, if you get rats I’d try to get her to interact with them, maybe give them treats or just watch them, or get her to play with them with you. It would be like a bonding experience. Not everyone is open to doing that but if she is it could be beneficial in her realizing they aren’t horrible little creatures. This is what I did when I owned reptiles my sister was afraid of - I just convinced her to interact calmly with my snakes and she learned that they weren’t really evil or gross.
worrmm Thank you for the information! It’s actually a guy, and he is 30 years older than me... he’s older and my family has been renting his house for 14 years.. I tried to talk to him but he started talking about how he’s going to kill my rats if I get them and he is putting rat traps around the house.. so I’m waiting for a little to talk to him again because I’m a little scared to bring it up again. But rats make me really happy and I’m still going to school and with the whole Covid-19 thing right now I just really want to have two new best friends that I can hang out with all day. I’m going to have a good amount of free time and working at my my vet and it’s just the perfect time.
The toilet was a failure 😂 I had to add a second in the back left so now they have two. They do go in them but just for good measure they like to poop in the opposite corners 🙄
I have found that my rats most love the simplest things like cardboard boxes. I really think that all the little houses and stuff are great for them too, but they are more for the benefit of the owners because they look nicer. I have my rats in my art/craft room, which is constantly a mess, so I don’t let them free roam on the floor there. I have the Critter Nation double cage for them, and I placed it inside a closet and took the doors off the closet. When I open the top doors the rats can safely come and go from the cage to the top of the cage and to the shelf in the closet. The cage fits perfectly under the shelf with about three inches between the two, and the rats LOVE to hang out in that space between the cage and the closet shelf, I think because they feel safe and secure in the relatively tight (height-wise) but spacious (area-wise) space. The space on the closet shelf is like a play space, with lots of things to climb on and in/out of, but we still need to add more things. We plan to bolt some interesting shelves and staircases to the walls inside that closet area. We have a lot of hammocks and hanging tunnels that don’t all fit in the cage, so we will figure out how to hang them inside the closet too.
I LOVE the idea of designing little spaces made from popsicle sticks!! I will try that! :) :) :)
Girl keep up the amazing work! I love my mice and rats when i had them but i never found a youtube channel that i cared to watch that discussed them. Thank you for the top notch info and content
I recently got my rats, so I haven’t gotten around to making a free roam area. Should I work on that.
yes you should, it’s important they get to roam outside their cage
you should have had everything for them ready before you get the animal. But yes you should do it asap if you still haven't
Well to be fair my parents and I didn’t have a dedicated room for the rats at first. And we didn’t have time to do everyone because we were seeing the breeders so soon
You should deffinetly have an area for playing, if you don't have a lot of space, then you can throw some blankets and toys on a couch or bed for them to play on.
@@thrillhous6407 you dont have to have a separate room for them just an area where they can free roam. And yeah so what lol either do everything before you go the the breeder or wait with getting them until everything is ready. It's not like you absolutely had to get them that quickly. Either wait with going to a breeder or hurry up getting everything ready that's not an excuse lol
this inspired me to upgrade my rats free roam area. i used to just let them walk around in my room but now i added boxes and i asked my parents to spare carton coffee cans so i can use them as tunnels. i used to do that in our last house, but since we moved i kinda stopped
my rat just died and I don’t know what to do. I knew his quality of life would decrease because of no longer having a cagemate (she passed away in January) but i just wasn’t expecting it to happen so soon. I loved watching your content to prepare for owning rats, I miss them so dearly.
aw,, Im so sorry! my rat has a tumor and im worried about his cagemate, im so sorry! rip little rats
Rest in peace..
I lost my pair both on the same day, Oct 2nd. I miss them so much! One of the rats I owned that passed in the one is my profile picture, her name is Storm, but I nickednamed her Stormwormy, and my albino rat, Frostywosty. Who mainly goes by Frostbite, or Frost for short. Rest in peace babies!
@@1ovely.spr1te37 Sorry for commenting so many times. But I wish your rats luck. Are they doing well atm?
Emi you’ve got to do a mouse version of this next!
Early hi I love watching your account to learn about rats because I am going to be getting some soon I have a question are dumbo rats good and do you own that kind?
Dumbo is just the ear type it doesn’t change anything else about the rat ☺️
The pigeon Weirdo I don’t have any shelters near me and I am not getting them from any pet stores I am getting them from a breeder
It’s the best seeing them run around my room 😂
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I was really looking forward to this video of yours, it's a really fun topic, thanks for reviewing and giving tips! (:
I'm not owning rats yet for a while but I'm slowly getting ready for them, researching, planning and buying stuff, and I just ordered like 300 ping pong balls for a ball pit recently and now you mentioned they don't use yours that much haha noo! I hope they will like it, maybe if I'll scatter around some food in it. :D
Lol hopefully your future rats enjoy the ball pit. Someone else commented saying their girls LOVE their ball pit.
You could also add some ping pong balls to their pea fishing dish, to make it a little challenging for them to get to the peas. (I wouldn't do this on their first pea fishing experience; wait for them to be comfortable and confident first)
@@MyPerfectMischief Ohh haha that's relieving to hear, thanks, still got a chance then! :D Also thanks for the tip about the level up pea fishing, didn't think about that!
Okay, I misread this as ‘Reacting to my Viewers’ Rat-Free Roaming Areas’ so I thought you were reacting to their living rooms or something! 😂
The garfield house is from b&m, it's £4 :)
yess i've been waiting 4 this one :)
i used to watch this wayyyyyyy before i owned rats and this might be one reason i got them cause i watched your vids
I have a big walk in closet, and I made that the free roam area, it has a huge rat castle made of wood and boxes, the rest of the closet is for them to run in (which is covered in blankets so they don't do their business on the carpet), getting the rats soon and hope they like it
We have got our rats out every day since we got them, but we are staying at my aunt’s house for about 5/6 days in a few weeks, and we are leaving the rats for my grandma to looks after. She will not be able to get them out however; do you think it will be too bad to leave them for a week without a playtime? I am a bit worried, but I think it will be fine because it is only one week of their entire life.
I am not an expert but i don’t think it’s perfect for them. But remember, you can’t be perfect every time! You could try to add a wheel in their cage and hope they use it (some don’t like wheels), you can also add some new toys so they have something new to play with. You can also expand a little (add a little cage with a tunnel) and in there you decorate as if it was a playground for them, you know? Hope this helped a little :)
I am a pet rat breeder. Honestly, they'll be fine. If they don't have one already, consider putting a dig box in their cage for them, also provide your grandma with a few new exciting toys for her to switch out every day for them to explore and have some mental enrichment. And when you guys are reunited, an extra long play time is in order! 😁
Tirill Haarberg thank you for the advice! I will look into getting some new toys; I build some things for them as well 😊
charleise w thank you, that’s a great idea to put different toys in their cage every day, I will also get them a wheel, they may not like it, but if they do then it’ll be a bit of exercise for them :)
@@leisewri where are you located and how much are your rats ?
Love the videos!! If you didn’t make these I wouldn’t know anything about rats! 💖
I'm going to get big rats soon. I already set up their cage, it's a two-story ferret cage. I'm planning on getting two male rats, but I don't know how to set up my room as a bit of a free roam space, especially since I already have a free roam bunny in my room. The rest of the rats that I have in my room are just feeder rats, and not to mention the mice! But they aren't in very good enclosures right now. The small rats are in an aquarium. The only other option I had was to put them in something smaller.
I’m getting a play pen with a zippible lid ( they can still breath lol) and now I’m so exited to decorate!
This gives me an idea on how I would lime to have one as when we move house next year I can get my dad to build me one in our room ready for my rats ☺️
I share one room (student apartment) with my two boys so I had to implement their toys in my room in a way it doesn't look too messy. A lot of their stuff is hiding under my bed, sofa, and table for example. Since their cage is on a high bureau I had to build a tower of cartoon boxes so they could move up and down as they want. For that reason, they also have a water bowl, food ball, and toilet also hidden in my room xD
I love watching your reacting to your viewers’ rat free roam areas and cages videos.
I learned a lot from them and got some new ideas, but I’ve always been wondering
one thing. It’s about dig boxes. If you and your viewers use wood shavings and/or
soil, how often do you change? I guess it depends on frequency/length of time used
by numbers of rats, but I’d like to know. Because it takes a lot of wood shavings/soil
to fill the box deep enough for your rats to enjoy and if you have to change weekly,
I don’t think I can offer (afford) such box to my rats all the time. I have 3 rattie boys.
If it’s a deep base cage I do a deep clean and change the shavings once a month to 6 weeks and turn it every week. Soil in a dig box only really when it starts to smell
@@Emiology I didn’t expect to get a reply from you bc it was a video from two years ago. And the reply was so quick! Thank you!
Now I have better understanding of dig box care 😌 From the east coast of USA ❤🐀❤
I love your channel!!!
My mom used to free roam our rats on the sofa for playtime, we even had one trained to go from his cage down the hall to the couch (supervised of course) they always stayed on the couch and our cats never bothered them (they were well fed indoor only cats) The only thing I suggest though if you free roam rats on furniture or a bed put a blanket over it to protect it from their pee/poo.
I'm getting my first boys in a week and am unable to give them a full room but my things don't take up much room and im going to make playpen for them! I've been collecting/making stuff for it from when i decided to get rats, and im so excited!
Another idea: cut up lots of pieces of fleece and put it in a mesh free standing laundry basket. My rats love to get in there and climb around, making burrows. I hide treats in the fabric for them to find.
I don’t have rats but these look similar to my hamsters freeroam area 😂
yesss i’ve been missing these type of videos :)))
I use my bath for a free roam area. I put towels on the bottom put some toys and hides and a dig box
1 view 12 likes, YT is broken!!!! I’m excited to watch the video!
My rat has the whole house to roam and he's really never in his cage. But he's the last remaining one at almost 3 years old. He usually ends up in the laundry basket for a nap.
my auntie has rats and she lets them walk around her house and sit on the couch with her/go under the couch but shes not sure if she should get a specific rat room/area with toys and stuff? (she cant use the internet well so i was googling for her and i found this haha)
1 view 11 likes and 2 comments, Late notifications late, whats wrong with youtube?
I just got a 16 week old rescue rat and she is petrified of new things and people and my older, socialized rats are so confused why she won’t come out for play time
One day a bunch of small animal UA-camrs need to come together and create a shop where they teach you proper care and treat their small animals right😅 if only it was that easy....
I got four rats. I started with three in a double critter nation but I found out one of them is a girl so I went to the pet shop (one that didn’t support breeding mills) and got another girl, split the double critter nation in half, and split them up by gender. They are adorable! The girls are named Rosie and Daisy, and the boys are named Churro and Remy. I haven’t free roamed them yet though. 😅
The one dislike is from a cat that couldn't get past one of the freeroam walls
The Garfield house, is a cat house with a cardboard scratch matt, you can buy them cheap from b&m =3
I built my babies a big play area out of heavy duty cardboard boxes and duct tape. And they have tons of fun stuff to play with. I put them in for an hour a day and sit with them in here too. They use me as a climbing frame 😂 looking for more ideas to make fun toys for them!
YAYY IM IN ITT!
I built my rats a giant maze castle out of a big moving box and pringle can and shipping boxes of all kinds
WOWWWW THAT ONE AT 12:21 IS SOOOOO COOL!!!!
Thank you so much for making Another video
I’ve pondered a few times about the feasibility of making a full rat room as their main enclosure. I’m sure it would need a crazy amount of rat-proofing to keep them from chewing through the walls or getting out through vents or something 😅 Probably not a practical goal
This is really helpful! I let them run around a rat proof room but didnt know what to leave them to do....
For anyone who doesn’t have the space for a free roam aria, I take min into the bathroom and let them loose when ever I shower or have to poop lol bathrooms are Usually the safest and easiest to clean up after
Eeee I’ve been waiting for a new video!!! When is the Mice Maze video coming out? I keep seeing you talking about it on Instagram. No rush💕😌
My cages are on the floor so they can climb back in when they need to go. I have a few cages they can go in and out of. I don't block my bed but.....yeah..... I'm definitely going to need to do that. 🤣They seem to be more interested in climbing on me more than any other toy in the room. I'm not complaining because I love their company and love kisses😊
Thanks so much for the advice I am going to the vet tomorrow ❤
My rats are so difficult in the sense that they eat everything!! Any zip tie or shower curtain hook I put in they attack within moments and the IKEA tie holders are a wonderful idea.. If they last more than a week with my boys! They're cute though so I can forgive them.
These are such cute ideas!
My favorite moment with my albino rats was when porridge stole a whole cracker from me and tried to pull into a tunnel it looked so silly as it was such a big cracker compared to him
When will you make another reacting to our rat cages video? I really want to send in a picture of my rats cage (:
I've had my rats for a while. I used to have them in the walk in shower but they are much bigger now. And all three, is wow! So, I'm really trying to find some things to add to my new play pen I'm making, I need a few more boxes. The carbord ones are much cheaper as long as you can make sure they cant escape !
i have been waiting ages for your your new video i was wondering if rats can eat hay?
They can have dust extracted hay as enrichment but they don’t really eat it
Thank you so much xx
So many cool free roam areas!
I clicked so fast this is the first time in early xx
I’m getting two male rats soon and I already have there cage set up but I’ve never had rats before and I’ve done most of my research here because the videos are entertaining and very helpful. I was stuck on my free roam area so this was really helpful and I would love some more advice! I’m getting them from a breeder, and I was wondering if they would try to run away, during free roam, and if it would scare them to have dogs near by.
I clicked on the video right as i saw it 😻 I needed some ideas for free roaming areas for my two new baby girls
With all the furniture in my room I think my rats would have a fun exploring 😂
Hello, Emiology, I was wondering for rat free roams if a bathroom would work. would it be too small for four boys? any ideas on how to rat-proof a room and how to clean anything they pee/poo on?
What was the name of the shoe storage? The one for the rats that couldn’t free roam on the floor. I looked on Amazon but can’t seem to find it.
I would like to know too, I just did the same thing with Amazon!
The plastic wall things? I have these they're called SONGMICS Guinea pig playpen
If you're still looking 😂
Hi Emi! Im thinking of getting rats, Is it okay if k keep my rats in a little play pen? Thank you!
For free roam or all the time? Play pens can be great for free roam but they usually spend most of it trying to work out how to jump out
@@Emiology all the time
I don't think you should keep them in a playpen, it wouldnt be a safe, enriching, or even a good place for them to stay. Maybe try resorting to a cage instead, and make sure the bar spacing isn't to wide. Hopefully that helped from a fellow beginner rat owner!
Spent so much time on my free roam just for them to play and sleep in my washing pile
(Making sure that they’re safe first)
Bird ladders and toys are great for rats!
Hi em! I love your videos so much and I’m getting 2 rats in October and I’m looking for the cage now. Do you think the prevue pet products feisty ferret cage is suitable with adjustments? ❤️🐁🐀
Thus gave me so many ideas for my new rats I'm getting in 4 days!! I'm getting 4 sister and they will be free Rome for 2 hours and when I get a bigger attachment to there cage and go back to school they will be free Rome for 1 an hour. I just got 7 new mice 6 sisters and 1 brother in his own cage. My 3 sister mice also just died about 2 months ago and i feel like I'm ready for 7 mice and 4 rats
I LOVE YOU EMI
should be the free roam area next to the rat cage? bc my room is rlly not rat safe and i odnt have other place to put the rat cage
No you can transport them into a bathroom etc to free roam if that’s safer 😊
my rat stewart when he's big/old enough ima have him run around the whole house and hes only like 3-4 weeks right now...
Yay !! I was so scared to free roam my mice in my room because I thought I’d never find them again lol !! Today I allowed to them run around for the first time !! I did “ free roam “ them before but only in a small cage 70x50 cm and I don’t think they enjoyed it anymore ! Thank you for the video !!
Omg guys !!!! One of my girls literally manage to climb up my prom dress that I had hanging from my wall !! I looked everywhere for her ugh !!!
@@mir8469 did u ever find her