Romba wrote:god wrote:Romba wrote:Hello!
Im getting rats! ! I'm so excited! My plan is to get at least a male and a female but I might do one extraany males are getting neutered of course. I have done a lot of research and I have a nice cage picked out (and many many toys and hides), its called the Midwest Deluxe Critter Nation single level.
How may rats can that comfortably accommodate? And will my female rat be ok when I take the male to get neutered or should they both visit the vet together?
I have that exact cage for my two girls and can safely say that it's more than enough room for 2 rats. Looking at it now, it's probably large enough to house up to 5 rats??
There's enough open space to add another DYI deck (from cardboard perhaps) and some hammocks which should keep your ratties entertained.
As for keeping a female and neutered male together, just make sure you keep them separated for over a month after the male has been neutered. They would still try to mate during that time, and pregnancy is a possibility for several weeks after neutering.
Sure! Thank you so muchmy plan is to try and neuter him before he's sexually matured so maybe I won't need to worry so much about keeping them apart, but I'll for sure talk to my vet too to make sure. Thanks for your response! I really appreciate it
Rats can be sexually mature as young as 5 weeks in males so by the time you get them he would be able to breed. I got a pair of female rats from rescue and about a week later we had a litter of babies (I wasn't happy about that) turns out the rescue thought they had all females and left a male in with his sisters before they realised it was a male (when he matured).
We always separated the males from the females at 5 weeks so we are sure we had no unwanted litters.
So just to be safe I would keep them separate to make sure they don't breed.