If you bought a healthy rat and keep it indoors as a pet, you can't get anything from it. It's the same as owning a cat or a dog. I was bitten by my pet rats a few times, came into contact with rat feces and urine, and breathed dust with particles in it, and I have suffered zero illness.
Certain species of wild rats and other rodents (muskrats, mice, etc) may transmit different diseases. Please note that these diseases are generally transmitted through breathing in/consuming anything with rat feces or urine in it, or coming into contact with (including being bitten or scratched by) infected animals (including carcasses or fleas and ticks that have been infected). Again, these are wild rodents, not the rodents you see in pet stores or buy from breeders. You cannot spontaneously develop these diseases from animals that are not carrying the bacteria or viruses, as well.
As with all wild animals, just don't touch them or go near them, and you should be fine.
Diseases listed are pertinent to rats, and rats or other rodents. No mouse-specific or other rodent-specific diseases are listed.
Different diseases are: Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (virus, most of North and South America), Rat-Bite fever (bacteria, worldwide), Leptospirosis (bacteria, worldwide), Lassa Fever (virus, West Africa -- the only one that can be spread through direct human contact), Plague (bacteria, Western US, South America, Africa, Asia), Salmonellosis (bacteria, worldwide), Tularemia (bacteria, worldwide), South America Arenaviruses (virus, South America), and Hemorraghic Fever with Renal Syndrome (virus, primarily in eastern Asia, Russia, Korea, Scandinavia, Western Europe, and the Balkans).
No, rats are vertebrates. Rats have backbones.
yes and no. if u like rats and they don't bite u then rats can be trained. if u hate rats then rats can't be trained.
no rats have gills, incuding water rats
rats can not fart. answer rats canot be bad pets
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Pet rats are not domesticated wild rats, rather, they are brown rats domesticated more than 100 years ago to now be fancy rats.
Neither. Like mice and rats, they are rodents, but they are only distantly related to mice and rats.
Super rats wear capes.
no
no, rats do not get consequences
Rats are not hypoallergenic
No, rats are rodents.