Hi everyone! I am currently developing a Discord collection bot where users can spawn and collect different rats (think of it like a Pokémon/Gacha game, but entirely dedicated to our favorite potato bros!).

I want the game to feature real, beautiful, and funny pictures of real pets. If you would like your furry friend to become a collectible card in the game, I would love to use your photos!

To keep everything super safe and respect everyone's privacy and copyright:

1. Please DO NOT just dump random images in the comments.

2. If you are interested, comment here with your rat's picture.

3. When you send the Pic say "I agree for using the photo in the bot" (so I can keep it for Discord's terms of service).

Feel free to also share your rat's name and a funny trait or backstory (e.g., "loves pizza", "sleeps upside down", "master of side-eye") so I can write a custom description and assign them a rarity !

Thank you so much to anyone who wants to help make this bot awesome! ❤️

I need halloween rats image but even normal one it's ok!!!

I’m seriously considering getting pet rats and I want to make sure I’m properly prepared before I bring them home. I’ve been doing research, but I’d love advice from people who actually own rats about things you wish you knew before getting them.

I’m especially looking for advice on:

- What size/type of cage is actually best? What cage features should I look for/avoid?

- What bedding do you recommend? How deep should it be and how often should it be changed?

- What should their everyday diet look like? What are the best rat pellets/lab blocks available in Australia? What fresh foods can/can’t they have?

- What toys are genuinely worth buying? What should I have in the cage from day one?

- How many hammocks, ropes, ladders, hides and tunnels should I have?

- Is it worth doing litter training and what litter/setup works best?

- How often should the cage be spot-cleaned vs fully cleaned? What method of cleaning would you recommend?

- What health problems should I be prepared for, and how often do rats generally need vet visits? Are there any emergency signs I should know?

- How do you recommend getting them comfortable with you when you first bring them home?

- How much time outside their cage do they need, and how do you rat proof a room?

- Roughly how much should I budget for setup, food, bedding and unexpected vet bills?

- Are there any particular brands, cages, foods, bedding or supplies available in Australia that you recommend?

Also, what are the things you wish someone had told you BEFORE you got your first rats?

I’d much rather over-prepare than realise I’m missing something once I have them, so literally any advice, product recommendations, warnings, or beginner mistakes to avoid would be appreciated!

I have 3 girls, who get about 3 hours daily of free roam time, 1.5 hours in the morning and 1.5 at night sometimes longer if I’m not too
Tired, and the rest spent in a pretty nice 4 level large sized cage. One of my girls realized the bottom pan was plastic and not metal, so she chewed a rat size hole into the corner just enough to squeeze through the bars. I woke up at 4 am to an unpleasant surprise of her licking my face! (At least she decided to come wake me up before causing trouble)I now clipped a small litter box into this corner now to keep her from getting to the hole but feel like it’s only a matter of time before she chews a new one!! Any tips on how I can keep her from doing this again??! She’s my most adventurous girl, if my door is even slightly cracked she will run out and straight down the hallway. I want to try and buy a large wheel for inside the cage to keep her occupied but the cost of a good one makes me hesitant. Do I need to keep her more busy while in the cage? Or is there a way to fortify the plastic? I only use fabric liners which she easily pulls away.

(at the end he ate something)

I introduced these rats about 3 days ago and they seemed fine when i first introduced them but now they keep doing stuff like this and i’m not sure if it’s normal. I dunno if i should separate them or leave them be i just want them to be hapy :(
white rat is parm, grey rat is cotton
parm lived by herself for a couple months she’s 11 months old
cotton is about 2 months old

idek why i tried to keep chocolate in my room buy my boys got ahold of two of the bars and ate some, is it a worrying amount or no? they wouldve done this last night and i didnt notice any behaviour change since then (been around 11 hours since they where last out) vets needed or just let them get away with it...

On one of my 1.5 year old rats has this on his ankle. I have not noticed it till yesterday, so i dont know if he has had this for a while or not. He wont sit still so this is the best shot i could get. I have had rats for a while now so i have seen amny bumps and lumps, but this one is new to me

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Said goodbye to my shy yet opinionated Rat Boi Onyx this morning.

I just feel so hollow. I’m still questioning if I made the right choice (I know I did, but it still sucks).

Now I’m gonna starve!

This is Marshon I got his second hand and the girl didnt know what kind of rat he was. I have a ratty named brillo and hes a double Rex and I didn't know if this was the same case or if hes something completely new

Does anyone know what this behavior means? My rat Katcha (the one on top of the hideout) does this kind of frequently, but only when he is positioned above Matcha like he is here. Is he just playing? I wondered if it might be a warning bite but Matcha (the other rat) doesn’t seem to mind. 🤷

The cage is empty because I'm cleaning, they don't just have a box (but sometimes they may as well)