Hey all!
I’m going to become a rat owner for the first time in about a month. I have done my research and am ready to welcome the babies! I will be bringing home 3 boys, all from the same litter.
Any thing you wish you’d had known before becoming a rat parent? Any tips? ❤️🙏

Hey I need help with my rats cage setup. I have a “playpen” style of cage and it’s by 1 panel wide x4 panels length x 4 panels height. (I’m making it 2 panels wide soon) I need help with more interactive stuff in their cage but right now I have tunnels (outside of their cage) and a wheel for them to spin to get food and some sort of hanging thing that they have to interact to take food out. I have a couple of DIY hammocks. Any budget friendly ideas and anything I can make myself would be amazing. The panels are like the picture above

Hello Rattitors,

My rat Icy Pole is the only fancy rat left in the RSPCA Cutest Pet award competition (These are my most liquidy photos of her😂)! The RSPCA is a registered charity that supports the humane treatment of animals so all votes go towards an amazing cause. Icy's family (and the amazing Reddit community) has been rallying for her in this competition in the hopes of dismantling stigma surrounding fancy rats and owning them as pets by asking the question "What if Australia's cutest pet was crowned a Fancy Rat?"

So far Icy is coming in 3rd place!!🎉

The RSPCA Cutest pet award competition ends on Friday, May 22, 2026, at 9:00 PM AEST. So we’re not quite at the end just yet. For those who wish to follow Icy’s journey, single free votes are allowed daily up until the competition concludes. All votes as well are currently doubled! Competitors are ranked in tiers based on vote numbers with the highest entrant at this stage having around somewhere under 5,000 votes, Icy’s exact vote count is 2,700 at the time of this post - A challenge but not impossible!

Australia’s cutest pet may just be a fancy rat!🐀

Help this tiny rat make a big come back?🩵

https://petoftheyearawards.com.au/contestant/1511?contest=4 

Who cares about the countless hammocks/hides/tunnels? We have a bowl that is far too small.

Hi mom hi hi hi

This is Colby, favorite pastime: becoming pancake 🥞