Rats are ideal pets for children.

They love being handled and it is easy for children

to care for them and to keep them clean.

Here I must add that I recommend keeping female

rats for pets, a male rat is smelly and he spends his

time marking everywhere he goes to make sure

that any female who might pass will smell him.

Pardon this remark all male rats, but that is a fact.

Life will be somewhat different for the rat, depending
whether a girl or a boy adopted her.

This is life !? It is heaven.