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You're looking for something in particular, but just can't find it? Find it here, in my Super Links!!
Listed below are links to articles on every ratty topic under the sun, all hosted by the people who know best - rat clubs and associations across the globe. Each article is listed with it's host club (in parenthesis).
If you know of a great article on an official club or association page (I have to thin them out somehow ; ) that isn't listed, email me and I'd be happy to add your suggestion!
The Basics
Introducing the Fancy Rat (AFRMA)
Pet Rat Information Sheet (NFRS)
Pet Rat Information Sheet (RLA)
Why Have Rats as Pets? (RLA)
Should you get a rat for a pet? (RLA)
Choosing a Rat Breeder (Rat Fan Club)
A List of Rat Breeders (Rat Fan Club)
Choosing A New Pet (RLA)
Choosing A New Pet (RMCA)
Choosing and Obtaining a Pet Rat (The Rat Guide)
Choosing Your New Pet Rats... (AFRMA)
Choosing a Rat (RLA)
Know Your Source (RLA)
Why Rats Need Company (NFRS)
Why Rats Need Company (RLA)
The Case Against Single Rats (Rat Fan Club)
Why I Keep Rats - and How (LSCMRC)
Starting Out with Rats (LSCMRC)
10 Most Asked Questions (AFRMA)
A Kid’s Guide To Basic Pet Rat & Mouse Care (AFRMA)
Care of Mice and Rats (RLA)
Pet Rats & Mice (AFRMA)
Rat and Mouse Essentials! (AFRMA)
The Quest (AFRMA)
Housing
Housing Needs (The Rat Guide)
A Perspective on Cage Size (RMCA)
A House For Your Mouse (or rat): Cages, part 1 (AFRMA)
A House For Your Mouse (or rat): Cages, part 2 (AFRMA)
A House For Your Mouse (or rat): Cages, part 3 (AFRMA)
Cages & Toys (Rat Fan Club)
Cage Accessories (The Rat Guide)
Housing the Small Colony for the Serious Fancier, part 1 (AFRMA)
Housing the Small Colony for the Serious Fancier, part 2 (AFRMA)
To Build or Not to Build (RMCA)
Building Plans for a Wire Cage (Rat Fan Club)
Building Plans for a Cement Mixing Tray Cage (Rat Fan Club)
Building Plans for Round Cages (Rat Fan Club)
Bedding
Cage Hygiene, Healthy Litters, and Beddings (AFRMA)
Cage Bedding & Litter (The Rat Guide)
Wood Shavings (AFRMA)
Respiratory toxicity of cedar and pine wood (Rat Fan Club)
The Toxicity of Pine and Cedar and a List of Safe Beddings (Rat Fan Club)
Cedar and Pine (AFRMA)
The Problem With Pine: A Discussion of Softwood Beddings (AFRMA)
“Litterboxes and Liver Disease.” (AFRMA)
Respiratory toxicity of cedar and pine wood (AFRMA)
Physiological Effects of Softwoods on Respiratory and Liver Function (AFRMA)
Use Of Cedar As A Substrate (AFRMA)
Photos of paper beddings, wood beddings, misc. beddings, and pelleted beddings. (AFRMA)
Environment
Cage Hygiene (Rat Fan Club)
Cage Cleaning (The Rat Guide)
How Clean is Clean (AFRMA)
Odor Control Strategies for the Small Animal Caretaker (RMCA)
Accident Prevention (RMCA)
Pet Poison Prevention Tips (RMCA)
Artificial Environments (RMCA)
Cooling Off (RMCA)
Keeping your Rats Cool or Warm (Rat Fan Club)
Steve Smith's World Famous Mousetrap (RMCA)
Diet & Nutrition
Diet (Rat Fan Club)
Diet (The Rat Guide)
Nutritional Requirements of Rats (Rat Fan Club)
Can I Make My Own Rat/Mouse Diet? (RMCA)
Melissa's Rat Mix (RMCA)
What’s For Dinner (AFRMA)
Summer Salad (AFRMA)
Corn in the Rat Diet (RMCA)
Rattie Recipies: Cuisine Des Rats (RMCA)
More Rattie Recipies: Cuisine Des Rats (RMCA)
Chocolate and Rats (RMCA)
Chocolate Toxicity? (RMCA)
Chromium Extends Life Span (Rat Fan Club)
Ethoxyquin in the Rat Diet (RMCA)
Entertainment & Projects
Apple Bobbers & Bottle Holder (AFRMA)
Buried Treasure (AFRMA)
Critter Kabobs & Toy Tip: Thrift Shops (AFRMA)
Making A Play Pen For Your Rats (AFRMA)
Put A Lid On It–An Aquarium That Is (AFRMA)
Raisin Boxes (AFRMA)
10 things to do with shredded paper (AFRMA)
Treasure Ball (AFRMA)
Warm Winter Salad & Sweet Treaters (AFRMA)
Home Made Bottle Holders (AFRMA)
Digging Box (RMCA)
Oh Boy! Rat Toys! (RMCA)
Rats and Mice Enrichment (RLA)
Toys (The Rat Guide)
Behavior & Training
Introducing Rats (The Rat Guide)
Introducing a New Rat (Rat Fan Club)
Trust Training for Frightened Rats (Rat Fan Club)
Trust-Training Nervous Rats (AFRMA)
Aggression in Rats (RMCA)
Training & Playtime (The Rat Guide)
Coprophagy (The Rat Guide)
Coprophagy: Healthy Behavior for your Rats (RMCA)
Domestication of the Rat (RMCA)
Agility Training (NERS)
Oxytocin, a Hormone of Affiliation (RMCA)
A Gnawing Issue - Rat Teeth (RMCA)
Rat Vision - Do They See What We See (RMCA)
Showing Rats & Show Preparation
You Show What? (AFRMA)
A Rat or Mouse Club Near You? (RMCA)
How to Show Rats & Mice (AFRMA)
Showing for the First Time (NERS)
Show Preparation of the Rat (LSCMRC)
Ideal Markings of RATS (AFRMA)
You Be The Judge - Rats (AFRMA)
On The Show Bench, What Is Condition? (AFRMA)
Disease Control (AFRMA)
Quarantining (AFRMA)
Quarantine (RSA)
Rat Bathing Kit (AFRMA)
Bathing (The Rat Guide)
Claw Clipping (NERS)
Breeding Basics
Breeding: Can YOU Live With It? (RMCA)
General Information / Advice for the novice breeder (NFRS)
Know the Facts Before Breeding your Rat or Mouse! (AFRMA)
Breeding Ethics (Rat Fan Club)
Breeding-Beyond the Basics: Ethics (AFRMA)
A Responsible Breeder’s Code of Ethics (AFRMA)
How to Read a Pedigree (RSA)
Rat Reproduction (Rat Fan Club)
Pregnancy & Birth in the Rat (LSCMRC)
After the Stork (RMCA)
Alternatives to Culling (RMCA)
Record Keeping (AFRMA)
Caring for Orphans (AFRMA)
Caring for Orphaned Rats and Mice (RMCA)
Genetics & Selective Breeding
Type (How an animal is put together) (AFRMA)
Of Rats and Men... Playing God (RMCA)
Genetics (NERS)
Rat Genetics, part 1 (AFRMA)
Rat Genetics, part 2 (AFRMA)
Rat Genetics, part 3, Genotypes of AFRMA Rats (AFRMA)
Rat Genetics, The WHAT IF chart (AFRMA)
The Agouti Rat (AFRMA)
The Black Rat (AFRMA)
The Blue Rat (AFRMA)
The Siamese Rat (AFRMA)
Siamese Rat Genetics (RMCA)
The Himalayan Variety (RMCA)
Cinnamon Rats (AFRMA)
Russian Blue Rats (AFRMA)
Rex Rats (AFRMA)
Satin Rats (AFRMA)
Rat Resume: Tailless rats (RMCA)
Taillessness in the Rat (AFRMA)
The Pink-Eyed White Rat (AFRMA)
One In A Million: The Hooded Rat (AFRMA)
Recessive Hairlessness: The "True Hairless" Rat (RMCA)
"Black-Eyed" Cream - The Continuing Story (RSA)
Rat Aggression (RMCA)
There are so many, we needed another page!
I'm working on this and hopefully it'll be ready soon!
Euthanasia & Grief
Euthanasia (RMCA)
Euthanasia (Rat Fan Club)
The Rainbow Bridge (RMCA)
Understanding Grief when a Rat Dies (Rat Fan Club)
Companion Animal Loss & Pet Owner Grief: Part 1 Part 1 (AFRMA)
Companion Animal Loss & Pet Owner Grief: Part 2 (AFRMA)
Euthanasia Alert (RMCA)
Postmortems: A Delicate Subject (RMCA)
How to Do a Rat Autopsy (Rat Fan Club)
Product Reviews
Activity Balls (RMCA)
Aloe Vera Vet Cream (RMCA)
Booda Velvets (RMCA)
Book: Story of Rats, by S. Anthony Barnett (RMCA)
Book: Surreal and All Too Real: Review of Dr. Rat by William Kotzwinkle (RMCA)
Book: Training Your Pet Rat, by Gerry Bucsis and Barbara Somerville (RMCA)
Bounce Back & Boredom Buster by Super Pet (RMCA)
Cage Litter Comparison Review (AFRMA)
CareFRESH® Ultra (RMCA)
Cell-Sorb PlusTM (RMCA)
Couch Pouch by Super Pet (RMCA)
Critter Country Litter (AFRMA)
Critter-Ka-Bob by Mary Ann Isaksen (RMCA)
Critter Luv Yogurt Treats (RMCA)
Fern Manufacturing Feeder Baskets (RMCA)
Ferret Corner Litter Boxes (RMCA)
Fuzzy Buddy Hyd-Inn (RMCA)
Gentle Touch™ Bedding (AFRMA)
Giant Roll-A-Nest Roll-A-Basket (RMCA)
Great Wall aka the Pet Corral (RMCA)
Harlan Teklad Lab Blocks (RMCA)
Hoffman Designs Herbal Rodent Treats (RMCA)
Igloo by Super Pet (RMCA)
Just Testing, A Litter Comparison (RMCA)
Leo Braun's Ultimate Wheel and Super Pet Flat-Bac Bottles (RMCA)
Lixit Foodhopper (RMCA)
My Rat and Me, by Monika Lange (RMCA)
Nature's Miracle Stain & Odor Remover (RMCA)
Nestlets Bedding Review (AFRMA)
Nutrical (RMCA)
Nylabone (RMCA)
Pedigree Dentabone (RMCA)
Pet Rat Squeak-n-Treat by Super Pet (RMCA)
Rat Roost (RMCA)
Rats! A Fun & Care Book Written by Debbie Ducommun (RMCA)
Rattie Refuge Pocket Hammocks (RMCA)
Reggie Rat Premium Rat Food (AFRMA)
Rosicchio by Ciuffogatto (RMCA)
Seaside Pets: Fine Handmade Pet Supplies and Crafts (RMCA)
Shop Vac Vacuum Cleaner (RMCA)
Shred-A-Bed by Oasis (RMCA)
Sleep'N Snuggle by Hagen (RMCA)
Super Pet Cages (RMCA)
Super Pet Toys: Critter Cubby-Hole Ball, Hog Hollow Hide-Out, Critter Inn (RMCA)
Sweet PDZ (RLA)
Vitakraft Orange Flavored Yogurt Drops (RMCA)
Vitakraft Strawberry Drops (RMCA)
Wodent Wheels for Rats (RMCA)
Zeigler Lab Animal Diet Rodent RQ18-6 (AFRMA)
Animal Welfare & Rat Issues
How to Report a Pet Store (RMCA)
Trapping Rats Humanely (RLA)
Down by the River: The Mid Atlantic RMCA's Stand on Culling (RMCA)
The Issue of Feeding Rats to Snakes (RLA)
Rats - a "natural" food source for reptiles? (RLA)
Crush Victims (RMCA)
Holiday Horror (RMCA)
Increasing Welfare of Lab Rats With the Help of Spatially Enhanced Cages (RLA)
AVAR Alternatives Database - Alternatives to the Harmful Use of Nonhuman Animals In Veterinary Medical Education (RLA)
Ethics - Serious Moral Concern is Not Species Limited (RLA)
The Rat Gets the Last Laugh (RLA)
Rats: Test Results That Don't Apply to Humans (RLA)
Suicide Squads (RMCA)
Ratty Science
Visual Acuity Test - Cognitive learning in rats (RLA)
Latex Rats Used in Experiments (RLA)
Virtual rat roams college classrooms (RLA)
Rats Control Robot Arm (RLA)
When Rats Dream, It Seems, It's After a Day at the Mazes (RLA)
"Special species" pets: opportunity awaits veterinarians (RLA)
And More...
This History of Fancy Rats (AFRMA)
Coping with Allergies to Rats (Rat Fan Club)
Photographing Rats (RMCA)
Moving With Rats (RMCA)
Finding and Homing Ratkittens (NFRS)
The Concord Mousetrap (RMCA)
Flying Rats (RMCA)
Export Guidelines (NFRS)
Rats: The Hard Sell (RMCA)
Ratsitters (RMCA)
The Ratty (RMCA)
Ten Words Every Rat Lover Should Know (RMCA)
Domestic Rat Care Information for Pet Retailers (RLA)
Son of Hard Sell, or, Ten Things I Hate About Baby Rodents (RMCA)
