“The humane thing to do is not use an exterminator and save these little animals that are happy and want to live,” animal ...

Animal rescue volunteers are racing to find new homes for hundreds of pet rats found running amok in a condemned house in the New York City suburbs.

The Suffolk County District Attorney's Office charged a Rocky Point woman after investigators said they found the neglected domestic rats and a dog in the home.

Animal rescue volunteers are urgently seeking new homes for hundreds of pet rats discovered running wild in a condemned, filthy house in a New York City suburb. A dedicated team of ten volunteers has ...

These have short, smooth, and glossy coats, although the males may have a coarser coat than the females. In general, they are easy to look after and have no special dietary or medical needs. You can ...

Maybe a rat is right for you! Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared on MTV, The Frisky, Vice, and Best Friends Magazine ...

Chloe Hedrick’s pet rat Charlotte hides in a bag July 5 in Dallas. Currently, Hedrick has seven rats that she got through DFW Rat Rescue. (Chitose Suzuki/The Dallas Morning News) DALLAS — Standing on ...

Picture the perfect pet that checks off all the boxes: Smart, trainable, highly social, affectionate, clean, hypoallergenic. What if it has all these traits but doesn’t purr or bark, because the ...

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When most people think of animal shelters, dogs and cats come to mind. But at many shelters, including Marin Humane, there are lots of other critters looking for their forever homes. One of the more ...

The earliest documented evidence of domesticated rats originates from Japan and dates back to the Edo period (1603 to 1868). The tradition of keeping fancy rats may have originated in Japan, but pet ...