I am keeping two female rats and let them run about the house. What if a wild rat gets in and mates with them?
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i had a friend that had this happen, her cat managed to open her rat cage and the rat escaped, they found it two weeks later in the garden, and it gave birth a following 3 weeks later, the kits were fine as they were growing up because they were getting handled A LOT. 2 or 3 times a day at least we were going in and handling them, knowing that they would need it. the rats were wonderfully tame up until the age of about 9 weeks they would run over when near the cage, climb out and run around your shoulders and everything, they were amazing. then at 9 weeks old you started to notice things changing in them, scattering around the cage rather than running up to you when you went in, that sort of thing, a little squeek and holding themselves rigid when you picked them up, terrafied. by the time they were 10 and a half weeks, they were wild rats, go near the cages and they scattered, running into the walls trying to get away, screaming, jumping, biting anything that went near to them. we couldn't believe these were the same rats that had been so impatient to get to us the weeks before.
our experience was that how ever much you handle them, the wild tendancies show through, i have also heard other reports of this so i know its not just us.
Kittens come from a cat.
No but seriously rats are vermin and you should drown them all. If you have wild rats in your house you must be a stinky person.
EWWWWWEEEEEEE!!
you will have rat babies. they have pet balls to let them roam you dont necessarily want them running loose because then they will be a problem
Doubtful. Help the pet population by spaying or neutering your cat and you won't have to worry about it.
If the rat is the female, she would die if she got pregnant. The fetus would be too big for her. However, of the cat is the female, you'd have some pretty screwed up babies!
If anything though, instinct will kick in and the rats will become their new toy, that is, at least until they kill it.
then you'll have two pregnant female rats
i'm hoping you meant they have a cage and then are allowed to run around on freerange time, but shut in all other times. if not and they are allowed just free run of the house then they are not pets nor wild just feral
the likely hood of wild rats coming in depends on where you live, and the state of your house to be honest, plus do you leave doors and windows open with the girls running around? please remember that wild rats carry all sorts of diseases to humans and other animals so it is very dangerous to even contemplate risking it
but to answer the title question the likely hood is that you would have all agouti [wild colour] coloured babies that would be tame, if your girls are, but not as tame as pet rats that have been bred from generations of pet rats, they would still have their fathers wild genes in them
if you really want to breed your girls, and with the amount of rats in rescues needing new homes i'd strongly advise against it, then do them and the kits a favour by breeding them to a known male of the pet variety
The kittens should be born in a controlled environment so that you can handle hold, hug, and kiss on them. Then they will be as tame as their mother. My mother used to breed Siamese and they were born in a playpen. The more contact they have with people (preferably not little kids) the tamer they will be.
for all of you people out there, yes, rat babies are called kittens. it is just as strange as why hamster babies are called pups.
anyway, letting them run free and get pregnant is a BAD idea. we have had pet mice that got out and came back pregnant. the babies lookes scrangly and wild and took after their wild parent. even though we handled them from birth, the mother would let us, they were aweful because wild rodents have a bred in mean disposition. also, pet stores will not take them in if they look wild. we tried. we have also had rats, and the wild bred ones tend to be more canabalistic.
domestic rats were bred down to have a nice and peaceful disposition if they are handled when young. wild rats are not. i highly suggest that you do not let this happen.
Hope this helps.
the name for baby rats is pups or rittens.
you rat's probably won't end up mating with wild rats.
if it it did happen here's waht the pups might be like:
they'll be normal looking and the color will depend on the mother's and the father's color. the temperment might not be very good, thier health won't be as good since it isn't a planned pregnancy.
Suppervise your girlies when they are out to play if you are worried.
If you have a friend that has male rats have some rags tha have been peed on ( by the male rats). the scent can drive off most wild rats, at least that what i've heard.
Baby rats are called pups. And I really don't think that you have a problem, as long as you watch them carefully and put tem in their house at night.
see your doctor to increase your medication. It is not working
The wild rat would kill the pet rats, you muppet. Have you ever seen a wild one? They are huge.
they'll be half wild i suppose LOL
The father must be a real rat
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