Post 5- Summary

I thought when I first started my blog it was going to be hard and I was correct! It is really hard to find information about rats. No one really talks about rats or thinks about them so, that is why it is so hard to find info about rats. I looked on the Internet for info that was the greatest source. The second was probably reading about them. There are not much books about rats but I could find a couple in the library.

I felt the books didn't have much information it's info was too much about pet rats. I mean who wants to spend there time writing about rats? My third est source was asking other people about rats ( I wouldn't ask people I only did that once and it wasn't that good informatoin). I didn't really have any more sources so if you are dong a report rats probably shouldn't be one of your choices. (If you do want to do a report on a rat you should use the internet or a book those would be your best sources).

I don't have a pet rat, but I really want one. A lot of people think that rats are disgusting and gross, but I think they are cute.

One of the questions I had was what a rat's favorite food is? My answer came out that it depends on the rat. Another question was do other countries eat rat's? My answer was yes some other ones do. You wouldn't believe how many things people do with rat's. Some people experiment on them, they eat them, they have them as pets, and some people try to cure disease for rat's.

Many people in the world hate rat's but a lot of them also love rat's. So now you probably know a lot more about rat's then you did a couple minutes ago. Thank you for reading my summary.

Post 4- Bibliography

www.wikipedia.com/rats

www.ramshornstudio.com/rat_history.htm

http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/history/f2r/rats.htm

Book: Sullivan, Robert 2004 publisher, bloomsbury

Book: Unusual Pets: Rat McNicholas, June. 2003 publisher, Heinemann Library.

post 3- How To

 HI! I'm going to tell you how to hold a rat!

  Supplies: Your hands, A rat, and a sink.

 Lets get started. First you will need to have wake up and have a good breakfast make sure your rat isn't sleeping.2. You will need to wash your hands.

3. You will need to pick up your rat.

4. You will need to put one hand on its back and scooping it with the other hand.

5. Your rat will like to be held against your body when you are holding it.

6. You should always wash your hands after handling your rat.

That is how you hold your rat!!!!!!!!!

post 2- Questions

1. How do rats get diseases?

2. Are rats or mice more common as pets?

3. Why do people think mice are cuter than rats?

4. Why don't rats have hair on their tales?

5. Why are rats dirty?

5. Answer: Only wild rats are dirty because they live in sewers and streets.

6. How do you feed a rat?

7. What is a rats favorite food?

7. Answer: It depends on the rat.

8. What animal is rat related to?

9. Do rats eat meat?

10. Can rats eat chocolate?

10. Answer: Yes they can eat almost anything we can eat.

11. Do rats only drink water?

12. What is the difference between a rat and a mouse beside their size?

13. Why do pet rats have smaller body parts than wild rats?

14. Do other countries have rats as pets?

15. Do other countries eat rats?

15. Answer: Yes

16. When was the first rat a pet?

Post 1- History

Rats are a small furry gerbil. They have very strong teeth they can gnaw through steel and concrete. There biting pressure is 7,000 pounds per square inch.

One pair rats can make 15,000 little ones a year! Rats are sometimes eaten in emergency situations. In some cultures people consider rats as food. Bandicoot rats are an important food source in southeast Asia. Domestic pet rats are different from wild rats. They are calmer, and they have smaller brains, livers, kidneys, adrenal glands, and hearts. They breed earlier and produce more offspring. Rats are very smart and aggressive. Rats skeletons can fit through a hole a big as their skull. If you see a rat it probably is weak and can't fight off the other rats for food. The ones that hide in the day are a lot bigger and stronger.

Ancient Romans did not know the different between rats and mice. They would say "Mus Maximus" (big mouse) and "Mus Minimus" (little mouse). In the Chinese culture the rat was the first of the 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac. People that were born in the year of the rat were well to get along with monkeys and dragons but not horses.

The rat raised today for pets are descend from the Brown Rat because it is known as fancy.

That is my history post.