Rats are really nice animals. they can eat what you do and most enjoy going places with you. mine like to ride in the car on the dash. I had to get one of those carpet dashtops becuase they couldnt get a good grip on the plastic dash and would shoot back and forth on it during turns. I was afraid one day one of them would just shoot out the open window during a hard turn. I can just hear the conversaion in the car next to me. "honey, Did you just see 2 screaming rats fly by?" It's a bird, no, it's a plane, no, it's 2 very confused rats....