Rat Breeders: About and Locating

Rat breeders are located all over the world, and the Internet is your best friend when searching for a breeder in your area. Rat breeders are responsible for raising healthy, tame, happy, and friendly pet rats while responsibly choosing the proper buck and doe to breed. It is delightful that you have decided to find a proper rat breeder to buy your new pet rat from.

The Internet is one of the best places to find pet rat breeders. It is important that you research the breeder to ensure that they raise their rats properly and that the kits will be healthy and happy. All you have to do is do an Internet search with the proper keywords. Of course you want to include rat breeders, the name of your country or state, and the town that you live in. This will show you all rat breeders located in your area that have a site online. It will also pull up any ads in your area where someone may be trying to sell their pet rats.

You can also search in your newspaper for rat breeders. Unfortunately, it is not common to find rat breeders in newspapers and many areas. However,  in states or countries where pet rats are particularly popular, they may be quite easy to find.

Once you have chosen the rat breeder that you are interested in contacting, see if you can find any past customers of them to see how their rats have fared. If the rat breeder is promising and you do find that they produce happy and healthy kits, you might now be interested in being added to their contact list or waiting list for upcoming litters. Different rat breeders will breed different varieties, colors, and grades of rats, whether they be pet quality or show quality. Show quality rats will usually cost much more than pet quality, because they meet or exceed all showing standards with the different rat show chapters.

Hopefully you are now ready to find different rat breeders, your new pet rat, and begin the journey to pet rat ownership. I wish you the best of luck in finding a new pet rat companion, and I surely hope that you will develop a good relationship with a rat breeder in case you decide to purchase another pet rat in the future. Sometimes, finding a good pet rat breeder will be hard, but once you do it is well worth the wait.