When it comes to domestic rat breeds, the first thing you must know is that, technically, they aren’t breeds. All domestic rats are closely related to the wild Brown rat and are variations rather than ...

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 ...

Lab rats may have won the cage fight to become model animals for research, but psychologists once looked to raccoons as the stars for studying intelligence. Black-masked raccoons served as favored ...

Marshmallow was one of my pet rats who unfortunately has since passed away. In the Chinese calendar, 2020 is the Year of the Rat, and today, April 4, is “World Rat Day,” so what better day to ...