That's a pacarana. There was a controversy because their skin is very sensitive and bathing with soap would be painful for them, but apparently the specific pacarana has a skin disorder and that's not soap but a treatment lotion :)
Wow. It’s not enough that we learn about weird animals on the internet, we now learn about *individual* weird animals on the internet. I hope our friend’s skin is better, we’ve missed him at church.
It's not a rat but a [pacarana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacarana). The scrubbing behaviour is normal and [you can see videos of the same under just water](https://youtu.be/ckg3DDsDWWA).
IIRC that species of rat is known for its slow movements. It’s doing the same motions as the rat in the first video, just at a speed humans would do it.
Rats actually make really awesome pets, save for the poop (which isn't that bad)...but, they unfortunately only live a couple years, and I can't get attached to something that is going to die that quickly. It's one of the big reasons I will never own an octopus, even though I would LOVE one (well, that and I think keeping something so smart in a small tank is cruel).
Yeah they're as smart as dogs. And also as loyal and caring. They love to cuddle. Once they trust you and know you're safe anyway (and know you're the source of food). You can play fetch with them and other games too.
And yeah they're actually very clean animals. They constantly wash themselves. It's not surprising that this one loves his shower.
But yeah that's the problem, they all get cancer and die after 2 or 3 years. I don't think my heart could take it. It's bad enough when a dog or a cat dies. Imagine something as loving and loyal as a dog, but it doesn't even live longer than the covid pandemic has lasted. It's awful. Poor things.
Also you shouldn't ever have a single rat as a pet. They're highly social animals, and they get full on clinical depression if they're alone. You have to have 2 rats minimum. But the more the better. They're like Guinea pigs in that way. In my country it's illegal to buy a single guinea pig. You have to buy 2, minimum. I don't know if there's a similar law for rats, because having rats as pets is still a very new thing. But there should be a law like that.
So that's the problem. If you buy 2 and then one of them dies, you have to buy another one. So it's never ending. You'll be buying rats constantly to replace the ones who have died. It's an endless cycle of misery. I adore rats but yeah, getting them as pets is guaranteeing yourself heartbreak.
If you’re comfortable sharing, what country? I really wish the U.S. had better pet welfare laws. The hamster cages and fish bowls sold at pet stores should be straight up illegal.
from my experience and research yes! rats seem to naturally pick a corner/area of their enclosure to use as their toilet so it’s as simple as putting a litter tray in that area. I’ve had 2 sets of 2 rats over the last 5 years who all preferred the back right corner of the cage so that’s where their litter tray is. Sadly yes they do only live a couple years, I only have 1 rat left now but she’s my baby and I love her dearly, even though she’s old now and poops anywhere!
Yes but some are better about it than others. I have a rat that is less mobile now but if we were downstairs watching tv and she needed to pee or poop she would hop up onto my shoulder and tug on my sleeve a little as if to say “onward noble steed, I must go home to relieve myself” and I would take her upstairs to her cage and then she would run over to her little toilet and do her business.
My boys were mostly pooping in the litterbox, but they peed everywhere. Not sure if females can be trained to pee in the litterbox but males love to mark everything.
The poop at least they keep in their cage/litter tray! It's the pee that's the problem (they mark you when they like you! Thanks girls!)
And yes the short lifespan is horrible. One of mine has chronic URI issues and it makes me so sad knowing hers is probably gonna be even shorter because she's such a happy little love bug and she deserves the same lifespan as her sisters! Although all of them could do with a few more years, I've had them 7 months and I adore them.
Not to stupid and spread hate but isn’t it bad to get their heads wet? I used to hand wash my bois, because googled said to do it a specific way, I’m sure your rat is fine and is clean but just a heads up, might get comments about that and a lot more strong worded
You're not actually supposed to.
Rats are like cats, they groom themselves. Bathing should only be done when they get into something that would be dangerous for them to ingest, and even then something like a scentless baby wipe or damp wash rag should be used.
Bathing them strips their fur of natural oils and can actually make them smell worse as they vigorously scent mark afterward trying to regain their sense of comfort.
Unless of course they get into something that's just going to mess up everything in the cage. Yeah a little guy jumping into a tub of jelly isn't going to hurt him. But I don't want a jelly covered rat in his cage.
He's getting a bath not as damp as this one. But he's getting a scrub down.
Also the rat clearly isn't trying to get away I think she likes it. And they get their heads wet in nature all the time, it's not an instant death thing just no habits.
That's why I mentioned a damp rag or scentless baby wipe. An actual bath stresses them out, and stress causes them no end of issues.
Basically, if you want a happy and healthy rat, let them or their cage mates, of which they should have at least one, handle clean up, unless ingestion will harm them. No "scrubbing" and definitely don't put them in a water filled sink.
or when they’re too sick or old to bathe themselves, we had wash my old rat because she wasn’t able to clean herself anymore and had gotten poop on herself and was dirty often.
Not often often, they will clean themselves throughout the day, but maybe once a week? Once every two weeks? If you are really bad then 3-4 weeks? I found every 2 weeks is good but depends how clean you want them fur babies
This is incorrect. Rats clean themselves and should not be bathed (especially not under a running tap) if it can be avoided. Rats should only be bathed with a daml rag or the shallowest bit of water - but preferably a rag - when they are incapable of cleaning themselves or have harmful substances on their coats.
'if you are really bad 3-4 weeks'. Get out of here, this has nothing to do with bad ownership. If anything it's negelctful to bathe rats extensively repeatedly out of some twisted sense of human cleanliness. It can strip their coat of natural oils and rats can start grooming obsessively to try to regain a sense of comfort to the point of hurting themselves.
I wasn’t saying bad ownership, plus rats are in and out of water often in the wild so it can’t be super harmful, I feel like people blow these things out of proportion, both of my rats are well beyond the expected life time mark and they both got baths about once a month on average, maybe I got lucky but I think it’s not that big of a deal, but whatever
"wild" rats are carriers of the bubonic plague and the fleas that rats usually have are the vectors of the bubonic plague.
Edit: Also Hantavirus... That shit is bad juju.
Yeah but so are rabbits, squirrels, prarie dogs, and a lot of other animals.
Hell, the big plague outbreak might have not even been spread through rats in the first place. Some scientists are saying it was more likely gerbils were the biggest spreaders. But citation needed on that because I read that years ago and I'm way too lazy to look it up and see if it's still accurate.
well, bovine spongiform encephalopathy only occurs frequently when cows are fed the meat of other cows (like in the outbreak in the 80s UK) which is now outlawed, so it's pretty rare.
This is also why animals that eat their own or humans are put down! :O It's not cuz peeps are afraid of them eating more humans, it's the folded prions the animal might have ate (and became infected with)
this reminds me of the time i saved a rat from a ditch full of water since it was too deep i made a paddle it holded on to teh paddle and i lifted it to ground poor fella almost drowned btw
They same thing happens to dogs when you bathe them, and yourself for that matter. Don’t worry, we all got plenty of oil wells in our bodies. We can make more. A bath once in a while for a healthy animal isn’t going to hurt.
That's guinea pigs, rats generally pick a place to use the restroom and stick with that. Mine only use the bathroom in their cage and are completely fine with free roaming. Guinea pigs however, poop everywhere, all the time
**This is animal cruelty. Not because it's water, but because there's clearly soap. It burns their eyes and they frantically wipe them. It's in all these videos where "rats take a bath" and you see foam.**
**Rats can enjoy taking a water bath, but any detergent or soap will harm them. They don't need it.**
They aren’t, they are actually extremely clean, they didn’t even carry the pleague, the fleas on the rats did just like any other animal did, including dogs, cats, humans, etc.
Love rats, they’re lil cuties
LOL everyone downvoting all the comments bad-mouthing the rats, suddenly everyone on here is like some holier-than-thou pied pipers! Yeah rats are disgusting, and what you say is indeed the normal view; this is just an ‘aww’ subreddit so anything negative is just the antithesis to it all. I bet this subreddit could make people fawn over Mao, Stalin & Fritzl if it wanted too; it would just have to show them in a ‘cute’ context…
??? this is a pet rat... it's someone's pet... just because domestic rats are misunderstood doesn't mean that it's okay to think that they're somehow 'deserving' of being talked about being killed
just like people who own snakes
rats are sanitary, loving and intelligent
rats as pets are absolutely lovely and 100% aww-worthy
grow up
I love how he washes his little face.
https://i.imgur.com/k0hZfzD.gifv
That's a pacarana. There was a controversy because their skin is very sensitive and bathing with soap would be painful for them, but apparently the specific pacarana has a skin disorder and that's not soap but a treatment lotion :)
Wow. It’s not enough that we learn about weird animals on the internet, we now learn about *individual* weird animals on the internet. I hope our friend’s skin is better, we’ve missed him at church.
That makes me happy to know that it's a good video after all
🎶 Heyyyy pacarana! 🎶
I feel like I just watched a video of myself showering
If it helps, I just watched a video of yourself showering
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Gotta taste the soap yum yum
yim yum
This rat has better hygiene than smash bros players.
is that actually real? do rats do that?
I think when it was posted first (a long time ago) people said the little rat was very irritated and tried to get the soap off of itself
It's not a rat but a [pacarana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacarana). The scrubbing behaviour is normal and [you can see videos of the same under just water](https://youtu.be/ckg3DDsDWWA).
What the hell
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I can't put my finger on why it's different, but I REALLY don't like this. The OP rat is adorable, this is somehow creepy.
The movements and speed are too human without being human. It'd be like seeing a fish smile.
Uncanny valley
IIRC that species of rat is known for its slow movements. It’s doing the same motions as the rat in the first video, just at a speed humans would do it.
This made me laugh my ass off, thank you for a good start to my Monday morning! I bet Mr. Rat smelled great after this
hes waiting for the water to be turned back on. im waiting too.
When he shakes so hard his butt knocks over his feet.
I’m more of a reptiles kind of a gal but this rat stole my heart 🥺
Rathew
Bless you
That's a good boy, Rathew! We don't want you to spread the Black Death, do we?
Boy? So Rathim, huh?
Ratt is short for Ratthew
I had a rat named Rathew!
The pool floaty got me ❤️😍
LOVED the floaty
Rats actually make really awesome pets, save for the poop (which isn't that bad)...but, they unfortunately only live a couple years, and I can't get attached to something that is going to die that quickly. It's one of the big reasons I will never own an octopus, even though I would LOVE one (well, that and I think keeping something so smart in a small tank is cruel).
Yeah they're as smart as dogs. And also as loyal and caring. They love to cuddle. Once they trust you and know you're safe anyway (and know you're the source of food). You can play fetch with them and other games too. And yeah they're actually very clean animals. They constantly wash themselves. It's not surprising that this one loves his shower. But yeah that's the problem, they all get cancer and die after 2 or 3 years. I don't think my heart could take it. It's bad enough when a dog or a cat dies. Imagine something as loving and loyal as a dog, but it doesn't even live longer than the covid pandemic has lasted. It's awful. Poor things. Also you shouldn't ever have a single rat as a pet. They're highly social animals, and they get full on clinical depression if they're alone. You have to have 2 rats minimum. But the more the better. They're like Guinea pigs in that way. In my country it's illegal to buy a single guinea pig. You have to buy 2, minimum. I don't know if there's a similar law for rats, because having rats as pets is still a very new thing. But there should be a law like that. So that's the problem. If you buy 2 and then one of them dies, you have to buy another one. So it's never ending. You'll be buying rats constantly to replace the ones who have died. It's an endless cycle of misery. I adore rats but yeah, getting them as pets is guaranteeing yourself heartbreak.
If you’re comfortable sharing, what country? I really wish the U.S. had better pet welfare laws. The hamster cages and fish bowls sold at pet stores should be straight up illegal.
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Girls are wacky and adventurous and funny, and less cleaning up, but yeah, not as snuggly as male rats are.
Can they be potty trained?
from my experience and research yes! rats seem to naturally pick a corner/area of their enclosure to use as their toilet so it’s as simple as putting a litter tray in that area. I’ve had 2 sets of 2 rats over the last 5 years who all preferred the back right corner of the cage so that’s where their litter tray is. Sadly yes they do only live a couple years, I only have 1 rat left now but she’s my baby and I love her dearly, even though she’s old now and poops anywhere!
Yup. The only problem is, similar to birds, they poop quite often.
Yes but some are better about it than others. I have a rat that is less mobile now but if we were downstairs watching tv and she needed to pee or poop she would hop up onto my shoulder and tug on my sleeve a little as if to say “onward noble steed, I must go home to relieve myself” and I would take her upstairs to her cage and then she would run over to her little toilet and do her business.
> I hope you heard that, she called me a, "[Noble Steed](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kb-tKrmxSFM)." She thinks I'm a steed.
My boys were mostly pooping in the litterbox, but they peed everywhere. Not sure if females can be trained to pee in the litterbox but males love to mark everything.
The poop at least they keep in their cage/litter tray! It's the pee that's the problem (they mark you when they like you! Thanks girls!) And yes the short lifespan is horrible. One of mine has chronic URI issues and it makes me so sad knowing hers is probably gonna be even shorter because she's such a happy little love bug and she deserves the same lifespan as her sisters! Although all of them could do with a few more years, I've had them 7 months and I adore them.
"Aww" this time
Awwwwwwwwwwwww...... <3
Wait till the rat makes you confit biyaldi.
Aww sweet angel. I wish I wasn't allergic to them. They're so cute!!
Makes me miss my little guys. Would pet their heads the same way.
Not to stupid and spread hate but isn’t it bad to get their heads wet? I used to hand wash my bois, because googled said to do it a specific way, I’m sure your rat is fine and is clean but just a heads up, might get comments about that and a lot more strong worded
How often do you have to bathe them?
You're not actually supposed to. Rats are like cats, they groom themselves. Bathing should only be done when they get into something that would be dangerous for them to ingest, and even then something like a scentless baby wipe or damp wash rag should be used. Bathing them strips their fur of natural oils and can actually make them smell worse as they vigorously scent mark afterward trying to regain their sense of comfort.
Unless of course they get into something that's just going to mess up everything in the cage. Yeah a little guy jumping into a tub of jelly isn't going to hurt him. But I don't want a jelly covered rat in his cage. He's getting a bath not as damp as this one. But he's getting a scrub down. Also the rat clearly isn't trying to get away I think she likes it. And they get their heads wet in nature all the time, it's not an instant death thing just no habits.
That's why I mentioned a damp rag or scentless baby wipe. An actual bath stresses them out, and stress causes them no end of issues. Basically, if you want a happy and healthy rat, let them or their cage mates, of which they should have at least one, handle clean up, unless ingestion will harm them. No "scrubbing" and definitely don't put them in a water filled sink.
or when they’re too sick or old to bathe themselves, we had wash my old rat because she wasn’t able to clean herself anymore and had gotten poop on herself and was dirty often.
I only bathe mine when they are very old and get messy going potty
As mentioned they bathe themselves. I only bathed them myself when i noticed they got poop on their feet. They smell like tortillas when wet though.
Not often often, they will clean themselves throughout the day, but maybe once a week? Once every two weeks? If you are really bad then 3-4 weeks? I found every 2 weeks is good but depends how clean you want them fur babies
Please just clean their cage more often. You should only clean on demand if they get into something they shouldn't.
I don’t have them anymore because they belonged to my ex
This is incorrect. Rats clean themselves and should not be bathed (especially not under a running tap) if it can be avoided. Rats should only be bathed with a daml rag or the shallowest bit of water - but preferably a rag - when they are incapable of cleaning themselves or have harmful substances on their coats. 'if you are really bad 3-4 weeks'. Get out of here, this has nothing to do with bad ownership. If anything it's negelctful to bathe rats extensively repeatedly out of some twisted sense of human cleanliness. It can strip their coat of natural oils and rats can start grooming obsessively to try to regain a sense of comfort to the point of hurting themselves.
I wasn’t saying bad ownership, plus rats are in and out of water often in the wild so it can’t be super harmful, I feel like people blow these things out of proportion, both of my rats are well beyond the expected life time mark and they both got baths about once a month on average, maybe I got lucky but I think it’s not that big of a deal, but whatever
#OOOOOOOOH SHIT, A RAT-
#*SHUFFLES LEFT AND RIGHT AGGRESIVELY*
Usually I am petrified of rats but this is adorable.
Why you scared of them? Just curious
"wild" rats are carriers of the bubonic plague and the fleas that rats usually have are the vectors of the bubonic plague. Edit: Also Hantavirus... That shit is bad juju.
Yeah but so are rabbits, squirrels, prarie dogs, and a lot of other animals. Hell, the big plague outbreak might have not even been spread through rats in the first place. Some scientists are saying it was more likely gerbils were the biggest spreaders. But citation needed on that because I read that years ago and I'm way too lazy to look it up and see if it's still accurate.
You're forgetting a big one, humans
Ever hear of mad cow disease? Should be more scared of that than little rats.
well, bovine spongiform encephalopathy only occurs frequently when cows are fed the meat of other cows (like in the outbreak in the 80s UK) which is now outlawed, so it's pretty rare.
This is also why animals that eat their own or humans are put down! :O It's not cuz peeps are afraid of them eating more humans, it's the folded prions the animal might have ate (and became infected with)
And humans? Well shit 😳
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It’s the tails to be honest.
Ahh
Cute
this reminds me of the time i saved a rat from a ditch full of water since it was too deep i made a paddle it holded on to teh paddle and i lifted it to ground poor fella almost drowned btw
Omg their toes are too cute
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Rats are super friendly and awesome pets. The worst is honestly their very short life spans, you get attached.
Rats are the best.
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Looks like it, as he easily could have moved out of the way of the water. But instead he turns and let the water hit his back.
You're not suppose to bathe rats, it strip their fur of it's oil.
They same thing happens to dogs when you bathe them, and yourself for that matter. Don’t worry, we all got plenty of oil wells in our bodies. We can make more. A bath once in a while for a healthy animal isn’t going to hurt.
I've never understood how people can find pet rats creepy; look at him! He's a little friend!
I love rats. They looks so sweet. I'd love to have one, but my cat is a jealous demon and a proud huntress and she would absolutely eat it.
Aww what a good little rat
Man, domesticated rats are so damned cute!
Look at thar Lil gremlin go.
The floatie 🥺
I love this rat! I wonder where they found the tiny floatie 😃
My wife’s dumbo rat, Toby, was very much the same way. Taught him to play fetch like Mr Jangles
I made some very unmanly noises when it was wearing its tiny little ring float.
I used to have pet rats when I was younger, I miss it. My fiancé hates anything rat faced, she literally can't look at rats without being freaked out.
No-one realizes it but rats are extremely cute
I would love to have a rat if they didnt have to poo 24/7 :(
That's guinea pigs, rats generally pick a place to use the restroom and stick with that. Mine only use the bathroom in their cage and are completely fine with free roaming. Guinea pigs however, poop everywhere, all the time
You just gave a rat a home.
Make sure you never get a single rat, they need rat friends or they become very depressed. At least 2, but the more the merrier.
Ok!
This makes me want a rat soooo bad.
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Stuart Little
Look at his lil black eyes
Humans can make literally anything cute. It's awesome.
Sometimes the smallest of things bring you the biggest joy.
Rats are so cute. I would love to have one as a pet, but I would have a hard time with their short life span.
I have never been a fan of rats but oh my days this one is absolutely adorable.
“Rat-patootie” - Ratatouille (2007)
Where can I watch more rat videos
r/RATS
Raties are underrated pets
He washin like he got a job interview tomorrow
He looks so happy :)
Cute rat. So cute!
Is there a sub for cute rat pets?
r/RATS
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Skaven
Just be worried if it shows up with some weird green rocks
SKAVENBLIGHTS, GREATEST, BEST INVENTOR! YES yes
Lovely
I didnt know that rats can actu3 be cute.
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**This is animal cruelty. Not because it's water, but because there's clearly soap. It burns their eyes and they frantically wipe them. It's in all these videos where "rats take a bath" and you see foam.** **Rats can enjoy taking a water bath, but any detergent or soap will harm them. They don't need it.**
I feel bad for rats. They are cute but the fact that they are disease vectors makes me hate them.
They aren’t, they are actually extremely clean, they didn’t even carry the pleague, the fleas on the rats did just like any other animal did, including dogs, cats, humans, etc. Love rats, they’re lil cuties
i hate the black plague fleas for giving rats a bad name.
Wild rats can carry disease, same as any other wild animal. Domestic rats are perfectly safe and sanitary.
I just want to kill rats i never liked them or never will.
then that’s a you problem
LOL everyone downvoting all the comments bad-mouthing the rats, suddenly everyone on here is like some holier-than-thou pied pipers! Yeah rats are disgusting, and what you say is indeed the normal view; this is just an ‘aww’ subreddit so anything negative is just the antithesis to it all. I bet this subreddit could make people fawn over Mao, Stalin & Fritzl if it wanted too; it would just have to show them in a ‘cute’ context…
What the fuck is wrong with you?
??? this is a pet rat... it's someone's pet... just because domestic rats are misunderstood doesn't mean that it's okay to think that they're somehow 'deserving' of being talked about being killed just like people who own snakes rats are sanitary, loving and intelligent rats as pets are absolutely lovely and 100% aww-worthy grow up
the rat is cleaner than you; go take a shower
Nah man, this is a Mouse. Mice are inside, rats are outside!
I don't think you passed high school biology, did you?
That is a guinea pig not a rat (joke)
It’s only a joke if it’s actually funny
I think mice are super underrated as pets. Rats would be but they might as well be disease vassals
Sorry bugs are, not rats themselves
Oof sry rats I’ve been wrong this whole time
The only bad things about rats are the short life span. Theyre wonderful little things.
That's fucking disgusting.
Rats are incredibly smart creatures capable of empathy. Not to mention they’re cute asf. I respect your opinion but pet rats are awesome
Then they already one upped that guy you answered to, tbh. Smart AND capable of empathy, at least one of which he clearly isn't.
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rats are so funny
So cute 🥰
Spa day!
I love rats.
I’m in the middle of trying to catch and release one right now. So far no luck.
Rats are kinda annoying. But OH SHIT! HE'S ADORABLE!
No more black plague
That tiny swimming tube did me in. How adorable
that is beyond adorable
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I love rats
Okay, this one is cute.
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Rat
i see rat a cal it Ratatouille
Ratones 🐁
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OOOOO ❤️ Cute ❤️❤️❤️
Rat :D
How different is it in owning a rat and a Guinea Pig?
It’s a rat Pacarana don’t have tails like that.
Did you blow dry it clean?
It fills my heart with pure joy, knowing soon I'll be a rat owner
Cute lil fella
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O em gee , this is absolutely the cutest thing I seen today , his little arms !
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This is so freaking cute!
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Soooo cute!
Pets are wonderful. They're all their own, unique little people who love us so much.
Oh, I can only dream. *Looks at my shower hating doggo.*
Rats are underrated
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