Fancy Rats Forum

It is with deep regret that we announce this forum will close on 9th April 2021, and will not be viewable after that date. The vast majority of discussion on rat care now takes place on facebook, and since the rise of that and other new social media platforms, the activity on forums has dwindled, an...

Details on the first post have been updated.

The new advertising year will run for 12 months starting from 1st June 2018. Please submit requests via PM to Fancy Rats Admin, or via email to web@fancyratsforum.co.uk by 11pm 20th May, stating what percentage exposure you would like, and linking to your banner(s). Payment will be required by the 2...

We have a large number of articles, but for ease of access, here are the links to our most useful and popular ones: Introducing rats using the carrier method Making a mix using the Shunamite Diet principles List of safe fruit, veg, and legumes Check the capacity of a cage using our calculator Furnis...

Our move and update is now complete. Please let us know if you find anything that isn't working.

Step two will begin at 11am tomorrow, 7th April.

The forum will be unavailable from 10:30 am BST on 4th April (tomorrow) for a short while. This is to allow for the first step in our upgrade, and further downtime will be required later on. Details will be added to this thread once we know when that will be happening. We apologise for any inconveni...

The new advertising year will run for 12 months starting from 1st April 2017. Please submit requests via PM to Fancy Rats Admin, or via email to web@fancyratsforum.co.uk by 11pm 19th March stating your preferred location(s) and linking to your banner(s). If more than one member requests a particular...

It seems that the whole of rat care, and ironically also forum help, were accidentally created with posting restrictions - these have now been lifted, and all members should be able to use these areas again.

(Note to admin: I can't seem to post in the Health section; not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if the new layout is not playing nicely with my computer) That must be a glitch in the new layout - thank you for highlighting it. We'll try to sort it out asap, and will move your thread once it ha...

Over the course of this week, the forum is being reorganised to provide a simpler more streamlined set of boards for active threads. Threads which have not been active since before 2016 will be stored in an extended read only archive section, and the more recent ones moved to a new section. Please m...

The new banners are now in position. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors, whose contributions make it possible for FR to pay for hosting and essential maintenance costs. If anyone would like to take one of the spare banner slots at any time later in the year (costs would be base...

Due to a delay in establishing the latest viewing figures, the dates have been moved, and the advertising year will now start on 1st March. The post above has been edited to reflect this, and to include the latest viewing figures. Note that we have introduced a new cheap rate banner for the quieter ...

The new advertising year will run for 12 months starting from 1st March 2016. Please submit requests via PM to Fancy Rats Admin, or via email to web@fancyratsforum.co.uk by 11pm 18th February stating your preferred location(s) and linking to your banner(s). If more than one member requests a particu...

Keeping Your Rats Cool In Hot Weather Whilst us humans welcome warmer temperatures and long hours of sunshine, our rat companions can often suffer when the mercury rises. Covered in a layer of fur and lacking the ability to sweat, the rat’s only real ability to control its body temperature is throu...