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I have four rats, and I love them dearly. Rats are the only rodents I've kept as pets, but I can't imagine wanting to have anything else. They're like tiny little people. They're so smart and have such unique personalities.

I just wish they lived longer. My oldest two are getting close to being two years old, which is starting to get kind of old for rats. They're still in good health, but it makes me sad to think that I'll be lucky to have them for another full year.

my favorite rodent was my pet field mouse @_@ and she was thee cutest field mouse i've ever seen.
i love big eyed rodents most i guess, beady eyed rodents aren't as cute to me.

I've have pet rats but they haven't attracted wild rats. To my understanding tame rats don't attract wild rats. Food however will attract wild rodents.

They're actually not, technically. I believe their closest relative is the polecat. They're also related to otters and weasels.

Ferrets are such weird animals. I visited a friend and stayed with her for a couple weeks, and she had a ferret that she just let run free in her flat. That tiny animal was so bloody annoying and could cause so much destruction. I was sleeping on the floor, and this thing would come up to me in the middle of the night, stick its nose in my ear, honk loudly, and then bounce away making this manic giggling noise when I woke up and told it to go away. It would also pull my blanket off me, bite at my toes, and knock over glass bottles and roll them around on the hardwood AT FOUR IN THE MORNING. But it was so damn cute that it was impossible to stay mad at it for long. And then sometimes he'd just...pass out, and I'd put him in my pocket or down the front of my shirt and go walking around town with him, and he'd just stay napping or half-asleep the whole time. I made so many friends hanging out in Starbucks with that little guy sleeping on my lap. mrgreen

It's a myth that rats, at least, will attract more rats. In the wild, rats are very territorial, so new rats won't generally try to encroach on territory that smells like it already belongs to an established pack. So if anything, keeping pet rats would help keep wild rats away.

I have a cat, too. He doesn't really bother the rats. Sometimes he'll go up and sniff at their cage, and they'll try to bite him through the cage bars and then he'll completely avoid them for a couple weeks until he probably forgets what happened, at which point the process will repeat. He couldn't get into their cage, anyway, even if he tried, and I don't let them be out together in the same room. It's never been a problem.

I own a hamster named Buhda(no im not budhhist, my sister named him that.) He is a chinese drawf hamster and is sooooooo cute. I love hamsters and guinea pigs. Ive always wanted a rabbit or a ferritt but my mom would never agree to that.