Quote Originally Posted by sho220 View Post
Rats are cool when they're not pooping or peeing all over the place...also not too sure about a rodent dragging his junk all over everything. Does a higher quality diet limit the pee and poo? I'm just going off my limited experience with "pet shop" rats which I'm sure are fed the most cost effective food.
Rats will litter train and I haven't had a litter trained rat ever poo on me. On the other hand, if a rat loves you (male or female), it will mark you with it's urine. Just look at it this way, at least it's pretty much sterile. That and keeping hand sanitizer close by is a good thing.