RattyRat.com is an excellent website covering tons of topics important to all pet rat lovers. It is a Minnesota based rat site devoted to having rats as pets, and connected to the Midwest Mischief Rat Lovers' Club Yahoo Group. But you don't have to live in the Midwest U.S. to visit and take advantage of the great material on the RattyRat site. Below is the RattyRat contact page and also the site on Introducing Rats.

There are other RattyRat pages framed on JoinRats, here, including information on holding rats, bonding with your rats, trust training, and petting or scritching your rats.

Please also visit the JoinRats gallery of "Must Reads" links to many expert websites on the care of pet rats.

Here is the excellent RattyRat Guidebook. Scroll on the left hand side for many topics of interest. If you roam the site and want to return to the main Guidebook page below, here is the direct link:
http://www.rattyrat.com/guidebook/guidebook_index.html



Here is the Guidebook section on Introducing Rats to Your Colony. If you roam the RattyRat Guidebook and want to return to the Introductions page below, here is the direct link:
http://www.rattyrat.com/guidebook/newrats.html