Hey! Who has rats here? I’ve got two…and here’s a pic of them!
Ermm the people i live with own ferrits 
Trev
I used to have rats. They’re great pets, amazingly smart, clean, and personable. They have tragically short lifespans though, which is why I don’t have them anymore.
Ben
I DO! I feed them to my snakes…
well actually my sister keeps one, I think they’re SO cute but I can’t play with her’s becaue I"m allergic…
Hey, who here saw the Harry Potter movie? That’s [b][i]SO funny when they turn Peter Pettigrew back into a human, he still looked exactly like a rat. He’s supposed to be starving, but he looks like a 50 lb midget. And his front teeth are like as long as his fingers.
Overall, though, it was a crappy movie.
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No way, that was the best Potter movie yet. I’m a huge proponent of being true to the books, and I thought this movie did a better job of that than any of the others, even if it did miss some details. You could spend all day listing subtle things that where left out or changed, but IMO they’re all nitpicky and unimportant.
What didn’t you like about it?
Gaah, I just wrote a rather lengthy post listing a couple things I found wrong with the movie, but my computer lost it. Here is an abridged version of it:
I agree that it was the best Potter movie yet, but I find things I dislike about all the movies. Warner Bros. should just try to stay true to the books, even if that does mean making a 3+ hour movie (it worked with LOTR, didn’t it?)
The thing I don’t like the most about the movies is it moves waay too fast. Harry was at the Leaky Cauldron in the first five minutes of the movie, but it took about a hundred pages to get there in the book. Like I said, they should have made it 3-4 hours long.
Also, why did Harry see the dog in the clouds during the game? It wasn’t a real grim, so Sirius should have been in the back of the stadium seats.
EDIT one more thing… they used an entirely different set for all the scenes. Hagrid’s hut, the Leaky Cauldron, everything was different. They must have installed that clock tower in the entrance hall within the last year, huh?
I raised rats when I was younger, they were awesome.
Now I only have wild rats living in my barn.
One time i drove across the country with a rat, she was blind and had lots of babies over her life
When I had pet snakes I had rats…but they were never around too long 
what kind? and how many?
i have two rats, mojo and pogo
Axolotls are way cooler… nuff said.
I’m not entirely sure what Axolotls are, but they definitely have a cooler name.
We have an unknown number of rats. They live under out house! At least they used to. Now we rarely see them. We used to see them a lot when we kept a bowl of dog food outside. Below is a picture of one that was found doing laps in our pool in 2000. Stalemate: The dogs can’t reach the rat (generally bulldogs don’t swim because their heads are like bricks) and the rat can’t get out. What a pickle!
Question for James Potter: How many 3+ hour long kids’ movies have you seen? Really? Long movies like that are always a financial risk. You can’t have as many showings in a day, so they can only make equal (or greater) money if they’re real good.
All you parents of small kids out there. Would you ever bring your kids to a 3+ hour movie? I wouldn’t. It’s just the wrong market. The Lord of the Rings movies were a gigantic effort, and even at their long lengths, they still had to leave out tons of detail, characters and sub-plots from the books. Fortunately.
Translating a book to a movie with complete accuracy is hard. In a book you can explain everything that’s going on in everyone’s head. Movies are more visual, but you can’t get into eveyrone’s head without some annoying, time-consuming voice-overs or other techniques that can slow down the story. My advice in most cases? Read the book. The movie will never completely take it’s place!
Oops. Can’t add the picture after you’ve accidentally posted! 
Cool rats Tyler! Really cute…
I haven’t got rats, but I’ve got two gerbils.
I used to have a python …
I always had people that wanted to watch feeding 
Back on topic … yah we got RATS here … …
HUGE ones in the subway , that eat smalll kids or take them hostage
hehe
I have a Rat Zapper (electrocution chamber for small rodents) to take care of that problem.
An update on the rats under my house:
Had the cable guy over the other day, to figure out the problem with our breaking-up picture. What he described as “varmints” had been chewing on the cable under the house! He had to crawl under there, at our expense, and replace the cable to the master bedroom.
Pet rats are fine. Our aren’t.
My son has had a couple rats as pets. They’re actually quite fun and enjoyable pets, but as someone pointed out earlier in the thread, they often don’t live long. Both of ours developed multiple tumors and had to be euthanized by age 2.