Rats: Filthy sewer monsters?

[moonshimmer100]

I love rats. Domestic rats are some of the sweetest, cleanest pets a person could have, and I respect the cunning and resilience of wild rats, keyword respect. Wild rats are just as ferocious and dangerous as any other wild animal, so you won't find me trying to snuggle up to a New York city sewer rat anytime soon, any more than you'll catch me trying to hug a Russian timber wolf. 

I strongly agree with everything you just said :3

[whitewolf223]

I love pet rats. I use to breed some. They were the cuttest things. Before I sold them I had accumulated somewhere near one hundred. So I know lots about them. Such as the fact that MOST don't carry disease. I have to admit, a good few of mine died from sickness, but that was only the ones I didn't have a chance to get shots for. By the time they reach stores pet rats are clean and disease free. So they just get a bad rap for their cousins who live in sewers.