Quote Originally Posted by SCWood View Post
Well...long story short, Boots didn't eat. I only paid $1.48 for the rat because I had a coupon, so it's not worth it to drag it all the way back to the store. We have it set up in the old 29 Eden lived in with aspen, a cardboard box, and two bowls of food and water. Problem! She keeps kicking Aspen into the water. If I'm going to hold her until he eats, I can't keep cleaning that mess up also, I need to find cheap rat food ASAP! She wants nothing to do with the bird seed. Oh, and I already think she's the cutest thing EVER. She let's me scratch her head and scoop her up for pets. I can't get my hopes up unless MIL says she likes her though so, any advice? Here is setup
That's how I got my two pet rats. They can be very cute.

For advice on rats, I would say go to the rat forums.

http://www.ratforum.com/

You'll find everything you could possibly want to know there about keeping rats.