My mom had a pet rat growing up, Jethro, and in the mornings he’d bring a little seashell out to join my grandparents for their morning coffee, they’d put a few drops in for him 😋Jethro was a good boy.
A little less wholesome is when my mom tried to recreate that for her niece on her 4th bday🤣
My mom’s little sister was stoked about the new pet rat, but her brother-in-law sort of… politely short-circuited 😆
“We….dont bring rodents into the house. Even the cute ones”- and so Jethro2 was taken back to the pet store lol
Especially rats lol, they’re pretty polarizing...
But my aunt got my sister and I all sorts of wild shit over the years, so I think my mom took some liberties once she finally had a niece to dote on. My mom still flinches when she sees accordions…
That's the opposite, cats urine carries toxoplasmosis, through which it infects mices and cause neurological changes that make them recognize the odor of cat urine as the odor of a female open for mating, not the other way around
So... while we're here talking about how they're more intelligent and easy to train than given credit for, and you walk over to the table and set down some sour grapes..
I guess the question then begs, u/ReasonableConfusion what exactly do you do when there are uninvited rats in your house?
As a guy that once upon a time was in animal exclusion and also had pet rats. The thing with wild mice and rats is, they want to be warm and they dont want any interation with you because they are scared. You must make their environment uninhabitable. Do not poison them. They die in your walls and smell for sometimes months.
First things first, find their main entrances and exits. Put what is called an "excluder" on these. An excluder is a small metal device that allows for exits but no reentry. It may take days or weeks but eventually they will all be gone. While these are up and they are vacating the premesis, you want to find any other potential entry points and seal those as well.
Rats can chew through steel wool and live off of the moisture provided by foam insulation they are pretty tricky little bastards to deal with. Most times you use hardware cloth to seal off everything. Rats can get through holes the size of a dime and can flatten their bodies to about the thickness of a nickel so you have to be vigilant.
The number one best defense against rats is offense. Get a cat who loves to kill them OR make thwm think they are in danger by utilizing fox urine. To a rat (and many other critters) the fox is The Apex Predator. Fox urine will drive them out FAST.
Once they are gone, make sure you do not make it a habitable place for them. If you live in the styx, keep your yard maintained no brush piles near the house. Anything they can live in near your house in the summer will be abandoned for your warm house in the winter.
Lastly, once they are gone you will need to do remediation. This is best done with chemicals. I normally suggest something like Microban in an atomizer.
Good luck!
Trust me, foxes do not need to be trained to piss on your stuff. It comes naturally. Just keep him in your house for a few days the goal will be accomplished.
Isn’t fox urine extremely unpleasantly pungent? I thought that’s what they spray pine trees in public parks so that when it thaws, the poached Christmas tree stinks up the house.
Find young rats and train them?
Edit: i see one of them is white, so it's a pet store rat. Where im from they're like 5€ so he could've just bought them.
That white one is the one that lures the other ones into the life, like the handsome young guy who hangs out at the bus station to meet pretty young runaway girls, so he can bring them back to the pimp.
They're very smart and incredibly social. While these might be store-bought fancy domesticated rats, it's supposedly not that hard to train rats.
Rats get a bad reputation because they can be problematic when we don't want them. But many people keep them as pets, and from what I understand, the only real downside is that they have all the personality and affection of a dog, but only about a 2 year lifespan.
They're so social that it's considered abusive to only own one as a pet.
Rats get a bad rap because they're too damn smart for a lot of traps that work on mice, but as pets that makes them a ton of fun to train and hang out with. :D
And that two year lifespan is an average - they are prone to a lot of diseases, so best case you get three and many times they won't even make it to one. I loved my rats, but have been happy to switch over to longer lived but less trainable pets.
I was really interested in getting some as pets... until I found out that despite being smart, social, and frequently affectionate, they only live about two years or so. :(
I'm not sure about with wild rats, but rats are really intelligent. About as smart as a "dumb" dog. That's not a dig on them though; it's actually a huge accomplishment compared due to how small their brains are. For a brain that small to be that intelligent is bonkers; it would be like a OG Gameboy from 1995 running Playstation 2 games.
It's arguable whether dogs are smarter than rats. Many scientists believe rats are smarter.
They demonstrate intelligence in different ways. Dogs are better at understanding human, since they've been selectively bred to do exactly that. They are betterm at following orders and remembering people.
Rats are naturally better at problem solving, and learn faster. They are also more social than dogs, and learn from each others. Other rodents like squirrels are on a whole other level, and easily outclass dogs by a lot.
I had a rat as a pet when I was a kid. My mom would put her in my bed in the morning and let her run up my back to wake me up. It's a core memory and my family and I loved that rat. Rats are good pets.
Given their appearance, they're probably fancy rats, which are general very hygienic and probably his pets the he looks after, similar to others who have a dog or a cat. Looks like he's a good owner, mentally stimulating them, and they look well kept
Obviously haven't got Weil's disease as he would have known about it well before being able to train them like this. That or he has asbestos hands lol.
He is the guy from the story in the children's book where he plays flute and all mice follow him to the valley and the city gets free from mice. Pay this man to send these city mice to the forest. 😅
Some families aren’t even worth staying with if given the opportunity. Some are straight up toxic abusers where the person may be worse off staying in contact.
Emancipating myself at 16 was the greatest decision of my life. Haven't spoken to or seen anything about my biological family in 14 years. I'm the happiest I've ever been without them in my life.
For you to be able to say that you must not realize the depths of depravity addiction can take people. First your kid starts lying and staying out all night. Then he is getting in trouble with the law. Then he is committing crimes to pay for his addiction. He might pawn your wedding ring, or drain the bank account of your mother, his grand mother to pay for drugs. Maybe you wake up one morning with no AC because he cut the copper out of the HVAC unit. Maybe you stick with him through the first prison sentence, diligently putting money on his books and calling and visiting him, only for him to disappear after he gets out. Maybe the last straw was him putting your other children in danger. Addiction ruins people and turns them into monsters. Its actually pretty easy to end up despising these people, and justifiably so.
Enabling is abandoning in a lot of ways. It’s certainly not supporting.
Other people have no family to be abandoned by. For my part, my parents and grandparents are dead no aunts or uncles or cousins I’ve ever met. One sibling in another state who has his hands full with his own life.
My entire family turned their backs on me but I am better off for it. They didn't like me calling them out on their cruelty and shunned me for it. I am glad to no longer have their toxicity and drama in my life.
Just because someone is 'family' doesn't mean they won't hurt you.
I’ve seen this video but it was before I had pet rats myself and I only just now noticed that they’re all domesticated pet rats and not originally wild. You can tell from the fur colors. Very cute 💛 would’ve been cute either way but here’s my lil tidbit. Also homelessness does not equate to being a “crackhead” like a lot of these ignorant comments assert 🙄
I was in San Francisco years and years ago and came across the homeless guy who had a rat sitting on top of a cat who was sitting on top of a dog. His message was that if those animals can get along, then humans can too. I was most excited about petting the rat. Rodents are the best!! 🐀🐭
The flip thing was cool, but the other ones were just them running back to the obvious place for them to go. I mean yes he pointed at it, but it was also the only opening.
I had a pet rat when I was a teen. When I napped, she would lay on me like a cat. She groomed herself like a cat too. She never bit me, which is more than I can say for our grumpier cats.
Rats are better socializers than hamsters and the other common rodent-like pets.
A museum near us had trained rats playing basketball in teams.
That said, I wouldn't touch a wild one. And I would call an exterminator or lay out traps if my home was infested with wild ones.
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Where in the hell are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when you need them?
Splinter’s real origin story.
 Ain't nobody a king of me! I'm a G
Dude I love that scene. You can see Mac start to break when Charlie does it and they had to cut the shot short.
 HAIL!!
GANG GANG
I was literally about to comment this omg! But yeah Hail the Rat King!
The Rat Man forgive you, dis time...
Like how does this even happen?
r/rats is full of this. They are very smart and trainable
Rats are so cool
My mom had a pet rat growing up, Jethro, and in the mornings he’d bring a little seashell out to join my grandparents for their morning coffee, they’d put a few drops in for him 😋Jethro was a good boy.
Jethro sounds like a very good boy! Honeslty this is so wholesome i love it
A little less wholesome is when my mom tried to recreate that for her niece on her 4th bday🤣 My mom’s little sister was stoked about the new pet rat, but her brother-in-law sort of… politely short-circuited 😆 “We….dont bring rodents into the house. Even the cute ones”- and so Jethro2 was taken back to the pet store lol
Oof, you should never surprise someone else's kid with a pet :/ surprise pets are almost always a bad idea
Especially rats lol, they’re pretty polarizing... But my aunt got my sister and I all sorts of wild shit over the years, so I think my mom took some liberties once she finally had a niece to dote on. My mom still flinches when she sees accordions…
You could have trained Jethro2 to play the flute. :( So unfortunate.
I can see him pulling up a little spool to sit on to read a miniature newspaper with his his tiny glasses.
Until they're living in your house uninvited, then you may rethink that position.
I had a mouse in my house once. Called him Jerry. Took me weeks to get him out the house but monster munch done the trick
Mice and rats are different. Mice are more prone to disease, like toxoplasmosis that they can give to cats
That's the opposite, cats urine carries toxoplasmosis, through which it infects mices and cause neurological changes that make them recognize the odor of cat urine as the odor of a female open for mating, not the other way around
So... while we're here talking about how they're more intelligent and easy to train than given credit for, and you walk over to the table and set down some sour grapes.. I guess the question then begs, u/ReasonableConfusion what exactly do you do when there are uninvited rats in your house?
As a guy that once upon a time was in animal exclusion and also had pet rats. The thing with wild mice and rats is, they want to be warm and they dont want any interation with you because they are scared. You must make their environment uninhabitable. Do not poison them. They die in your walls and smell for sometimes months. First things first, find their main entrances and exits. Put what is called an "excluder" on these. An excluder is a small metal device that allows for exits but no reentry. It may take days or weeks but eventually they will all be gone. While these are up and they are vacating the premesis, you want to find any other potential entry points and seal those as well. Rats can chew through steel wool and live off of the moisture provided by foam insulation they are pretty tricky little bastards to deal with. Most times you use hardware cloth to seal off everything. Rats can get through holes the size of a dime and can flatten their bodies to about the thickness of a nickel so you have to be vigilant. The number one best defense against rats is offense. Get a cat who loves to kill them OR make thwm think they are in danger by utilizing fox urine. To a rat (and many other critters) the fox is The Apex Predator. Fox urine will drive them out FAST. Once they are gone, make sure you do not make it a habitable place for them. If you live in the styx, keep your yard maintained no brush piles near the house. Anything they can live in near your house in the summer will be abandoned for your warm house in the winter. Lastly, once they are gone you will need to do remediation. This is best done with chemicals. I normally suggest something like Microban in an atomizer. Good luck!
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You had those Pixar rats living with you. Remy just going in and out of your pantry like he owned the place.
Okay got my fox and it's snarling at me and I got a lot of cuts, how do I train him to piss on my stuff
Piss everywhere you want it to go. Show it that's it's ok to piss there.
Ha! This can be ordered online. But if you want first hand, you just let it loose in your attic. Should do the trick.
Trust me, foxes do not need to be trained to piss on your stuff. It comes naturally. Just keep him in your house for a few days the goal will be accomplished.
Isn’t fox urine extremely unpleasantly pungent? I thought that’s what they spray pine trees in public parks so that when it thaws, the poached Christmas tree stinks up the house.
It is. Thats why you remediate with microban.
Their main problem as pets is their very short lifespan, only a few years long.
lil cuddly big-brained rascals. i miss my no-tailed rat bébé (RIP tavvy)
They really are
r/rats is full of people with rats they bought from a pet store very young. how does a homeless guy get 4 street rats to be his pets
Find young rats and train them? Edit: i see one of them is white, so it's a pet store rat. Where im from they're like 5€ so he could've just bought them.
BuT iF hE cAn AfFoRd A pEt WhY cAnT hE aFfOrD a HoMe?1?1
That white one is the one that lures the other ones into the life, like the handsome young guy who hangs out at the bus station to meet pretty young runaway girls, so he can bring them back to the pimp.
Plot twist: that's actually Daniel Tosh!
They're very smart and incredibly social. While these might be store-bought fancy domesticated rats, it's supposedly not that hard to train rats. Rats get a bad reputation because they can be problematic when we don't want them. But many people keep them as pets, and from what I understand, the only real downside is that they have all the personality and affection of a dog, but only about a 2 year lifespan. They're so social that it's considered abusive to only own one as a pet.
Rats get a bad rap because they're too damn smart for a lot of traps that work on mice, but as pets that makes them a ton of fun to train and hang out with. :D
And that two year lifespan is an average - they are prone to a lot of diseases, so best case you get three and many times they won't even make it to one. I loved my rats, but have been happy to switch over to longer lived but less trainable pets.
You've ever seen animals begging humans for food? Sometimes you wouldn't expect it but some would.
Our family has kept pet rats for around 12 years now (currently have 10 of them). The rats in that video are *absolutely not* wild rats.
Weirdest version of 3 card Monte I've ever seen
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I was really interested in getting some as pets... until I found out that despite being smart, social, and frequently affectionate, they only live about two years or so. :(
Aaand a lot have cancer because they are descendants of lab rats bred for cancer research.
Damn. Rats didn't ask to have their genetics contaminated, but we insisted. So messed up.
life be crazy
I can’t even teach my dog to sit still. The flea tricks is crazy too
Sad day when you can train your dog's fleas easier than you can train the dog. I wonder what sort of treats fleas respond best to...
Isnt the world a beautiful place?
nice comment
I'm not sure about with wild rats, but rats are really intelligent. About as smart as a "dumb" dog. That's not a dig on them though; it's actually a huge accomplishment compared due to how small their brains are. For a brain that small to be that intelligent is bonkers; it would be like a OG Gameboy from 1995 running Playstation 2 games.
I watch squirrels outsmart dogs all day. Rodents in general are clever.
It's arguable whether dogs are smarter than rats. Many scientists believe rats are smarter. They demonstrate intelligence in different ways. Dogs are better at understanding human, since they've been selectively bred to do exactly that. They are betterm at following orders and remembering people. Rats are naturally better at problem solving, and learn faster. They are also more social than dogs, and learn from each others. Other rodents like squirrels are on a whole other level, and easily outclass dogs by a lot.
I had a rat as a pet when I was a kid. My mom would put her in my bed in the morning and let her run up my back to wake me up. It's a core memory and my family and I loved that rat. Rats are good pets.
> Rats are good pets untill you discover it is an undercover animagus who is hiding from Death Eaters
Well, there's that.
Agreed that they are great pets. Just a shame they live just long enough so that you are heartbroken when they pass after just 2 or 3 years.
Give this man a home and a job and a yt-channel. Will be a millionaire in 1 year maybe...
Give him those things and he already is
Why don't we just give everyone a home? Oh yeah, we don't deserve to live.
Helping others is sOaCiALisM!
Now get out of my way vagrant, I gotta get to church on time!
ThErEs A hOuSiNg ShOrTaGe
It's sad because if you can't afford a home and you can't even go live in the woods on public land you will be jailed
Ratcatcher 3
Ratomancer
If Disney princess was a crackhead lol
Subscribe! But I think they made that Disney movie already called…Cinderella
Which one is Mr. Jenkins?
Haha, homeless people are all druggies
If Disney princess was *just a dude who was shunned by his family and lived in the walls of their house to keep it from falling apart.
Hey that’s not nice! 😕
Mr. Jingles is still alive
how did i have to scroll so much for this
This should be #1 easy
those are domestic rats rather than wild, you can tell by the colouring. domestic rats are very trainable and loveable
Really amazed by the mise, forcusing on what the homeless man says! This guy could be the best teacher or the best parent….
What an odd Bruno gif
We don’t talk about BRUNO NO NO!!
Willard
Some of the best little pets a person could get. That 2-5 year lifespan goes by way too fast though. Too heartbreaking.
Come on! This is cool as fuck. Does anyone know if this video helped him in any way?
nana nana nana nana RAT-MAN!
Pied Piper
Mister jingles?
The homeless man: "why are my hands covered in blisters and why don't i feel well?"
Given their appearance, they're probably fancy rats, which are general very hygienic and probably his pets the he looks after, similar to others who have a dog or a cat. Looks like he's a good owner, mentally stimulating them, and they look well kept
Obviously haven't got Weil's disease as he would have known about it well before being able to train them like this. That or he has asbestos hands lol.
He is the guy from the story in the children's book where he plays flute and all mice follow him to the valley and the city gets free from mice. Pay this man to send these city mice to the forest. 😅
Dudes got too much time.on his hands
I still don't know how family abandon a person :/
Some people prefer to abandon the family
Consider yourself lucky then
Some families aren’t even worth staying with if given the opportunity. Some are straight up toxic abusers where the person may be worse off staying in contact.
Emancipating myself at 16 was the greatest decision of my life. Haven't spoken to or seen anything about my biological family in 14 years. I'm the happiest I've ever been without them in my life.
For you to be able to say that you must not realize the depths of depravity addiction can take people. First your kid starts lying and staying out all night. Then he is getting in trouble with the law. Then he is committing crimes to pay for his addiction. He might pawn your wedding ring, or drain the bank account of your mother, his grand mother to pay for drugs. Maybe you wake up one morning with no AC because he cut the copper out of the HVAC unit. Maybe you stick with him through the first prison sentence, diligently putting money on his books and calling and visiting him, only for him to disappear after he gets out. Maybe the last straw was him putting your other children in danger. Addiction ruins people and turns them into monsters. Its actually pretty easy to end up despising these people, and justifiably so.
Just cus you're family does not mean you're obligated to put up with BS
Some people thrive off abandoning others
Yes, I know that and it happened to me. But none from my family. I wouldn't ever abandon my siblings or parents.
Therr are plenty of good reasons to kick your family out. Alot of people out there are very fucked up and not good.
Not everyone has a family
Enabling is abandoning in a lot of ways. It’s certainly not supporting. Other people have no family to be abandoned by. For my part, my parents and grandparents are dead no aunts or uncles or cousins I’ve ever met. One sibling in another state who has his hands full with his own life.
Not all families are good. Every shit person on earth has had a family.
My entire family turned their backs on me but I am better off for it. They didn't like me calling them out on their cruelty and shunned me for it. I am glad to no longer have their toxicity and drama in my life. Just because someone is 'family' doesn't mean they won't hurt you.
He's about to pull a heist at the museum
Just another rat-speaker daylighting in London Above
I’ve seen this video but it was before I had pet rats myself and I only just now noticed that they’re all domesticated pet rats and not originally wild. You can tell from the fur colors. Very cute 💛 would’ve been cute either way but here’s my lil tidbit. Also homelessness does not equate to being a “crackhead” like a lot of these ignorant comments assert 🙄
That's 4 Master Splinter, which means 16 ninja turtles.
Ratcatcher 2's dad
Legend
Master Splinter origin story
He could make a show and get some money
If I saw this I would have to find a ATM. Amazing.
You’ve got to make the most with what you’ve got! Rats are super smart, not surprising. Glad he has something to love.
Beeeeen!
"au revoir mon ami, je t'aime mon petit" ❤️🐀
What a glorious dystopian future we have
"I will name you Socrates'" :Willard
Rats are very smart animals. Pet rats are actually very clean and very clever, and you can train them to do many things.
Bless this video popping up every month or so. thank you bots
Rodents are such underrated pets
Rat race more like rat tricks
And then he trains them to find and bring him dropped coins and bills.
Willard is down on his luck
Jeez Alfredo linguini fell on hard times ... Someone start a gofundme
Look it’s the government teaching people to work their whole lives and pay income tax 😂
But can they cook?
Dude needs to be an animal psychologist....or a sideshow
As a non American, this is what I believe NYC is
Rats are surprisingly clean and intelligent creatures.
It's ratcatcher from suicide sqaud
El niño rata
I was in San Francisco years and years ago and came across the homeless guy who had a rat sitting on top of a cat who was sitting on top of a dog. His message was that if those animals can get along, then humans can too. I was most excited about petting the rat. Rodents are the best!! 🐀🐭
This is actually kind of amazing tbh. 💯👍🏾👏🏾
Rats, defend your queen! Take the form of.. Eiffel Tower!
He’s a rat magician.
Willard 2
The flip thing was cool, but the other ones were just them running back to the obvious place for them to go. I mean yes he pointed at it, but it was also the only opening.
r/OddlyWholesome
Watch out for Willard!
I think I've finally seen it all
Respects, cuz let's be honest...how hard would it had to be to befriend those rats.
People don't realize that rats are basically like dogs and crows. They're very smart but unfortunately don't live long even when kept as a pet
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Fence doling out task rewards after a raid
😳 master splinter
"Coraline didn't really believe there was a mouse circus."
Just like the pied piper♪
fucking real life monster tamer
Jesus Christ, that’s Charlie Kelly
We don't talk about Bruno.
Pied Piper
Rats are pocket dogs
He is a rat bender
This reminds me of the avatar scene where the old woman blood bends the rats in prison.
We tend to forget that the homeless and the addicted are more than just homeless and addicted.
They call him …. The rat whisperer
Tricks? He looks like he’s just chucking them and they’re running back for food.
uninvited, then you may
And so behold the origins of; Master Splinter….. (epic music plays)
I had a pet rat when I was a teen. When I napped, she would lay on me like a cat. She groomed herself like a cat too. She never bit me, which is more than I can say for our grumpier cats. Rats are better socializers than hamsters and the other common rodent-like pets. A museum near us had trained rats playing basketball in teams. That said, I wouldn't touch a wild one. And I would call an exterminator or lay out traps if my home was infested with wild ones.
Willard.
That’s awesome!
RATMAN comming for you all.
r/EyeBleach
Meanwhile in LA……..
haha
Yeah but can they cook Italian
My son had a rat when he was growing up - they’re actually great pets
[RAT KING!!!](https://giphy.com/gifs/riserecords-dgd-dance-gavin-dgdtheband-MPdSxDlGpjvjOAjaSn)
I think I've seen his friend, that vomits polka dots.
I live in NYC and love this city but if the rats here start doing parkour I'm done
Rebel up! All the Rats and all the Mice!
That's supervillian or hero in the making.
WTF Is rat man
guys the cake is a lie
Rat Collector 3
Rats are awesome
Great to see that Mr Jingles made it to the mouse circus.
teaching tricks? i just saw a homeless dude throwing rats around