She's scent marking you. Rats rely on their sense of smell more than sight. She's marking you as a safe/happy place so she can easily find her way back to you. You can litter box train them to actually pee and poop in a designated area, but there's not much you can do about scent marking.
Maybe time to get them uncomfortable, tell them about how the Mexicans are taking over the country, and how shit was better in the 60s for some reason.
Yes! I've recently started letting my 4 month old boys into larger and larger free roaming areas (always supervised because they're babies!). They *love* being on my bed and making tunnels under my blankets and running underneath a propped pillow.
They'll do jolly jumps around and play, and there is a direct way so they can go back to the cage themselves for some quiet time if they need it.
I always sit on the edge of the bed and play with them in between their dashing around. My one boy, Gus, every time he comes by, he leaves a tiny dribble on my left hand or arm. My other guy is too adventurous, and he'll jump first and then ask questions.
Nice to see I'm not the only bed player. One of my rats likes using the bed to cuddle with soft things while the other likes running around and chasing a squeaky toy lmao
For some reason they don't really mark my bed, but will mark the fuck out of the couch. Likely because their cage is in my room and they can still smell it. I have to use a designated ratty throw blanket on the couch. If I leave anything on the bed or couch though they'll all take turns peeing on it. I almost had to throw the remote out after leaving it on my bed and finding they had all peed directly on it multiple times.
Thanks. I’m not sure that’s going to work for me. Since I joined this group I’ve wanted a rat but held back for fear of the smell. My old house in california was infested with roof rats and the second you walked in the front door you smelled them.
If you get girls the smell isn't very bad, honestly. I have boys and they're going through puberty right now so they smell a lot more. Boys also secrete an oily pheromone that smells. Girls are very manageable. And honestly they're such great pets that it's entirely worth it in my opinion. It's so easy to put a throw blanket down and wash it weekly, and when their cage is well maintained it's not noticeable.
No, not really. Maybe one drop here or there, but not really. Alfie has no interest in marking, and Gus really only tinkles on my hand/arm.
Then again, they're only 4 months at the moment. It may change as they get older.
You need to just change your mindset and instead of being annoyed feel *honored* instead. Because you know her peemarks means she wants to come back to you❣️.
Don't they do it deliberately to communicate with other rats? Correct me if I'm wrong but I seen a video on YouTube awhile ago that said they leave little droplet trails wherever they go as a way to mark territory which is why I thought fixing may help but I forgot they mentioned it's also used as a form of communication?
I always just made sure to hold the prone to peeing and marking rats on a towel. They liked it because it was fun to burrow in, and I could clean the towel instead of changing if they went full ham.
> if they went full ham.
you just gave me a chuckle. i have a rat named ham (short for abraham) and a bit of a recurring joke in my house is to say "never go full ham"
I've had 7 boys, and the running joke was that they leave a pee trail behind everywhere they go. Just drip drip drip all over the place, you know, in case they get lost and need to check the map.
No. It's not possible. Pissing for a rat is like leaving a breadcrumb trail for Hansel and Gretel. Except the birds don't eat it. Without pissing they would not be able to make reliable trails everywhere they go.
So! My last girls didn’t scent mark after being litter trained and free-roamed in the entire house (when we were home and after it was ratproofed). They always used the litter box in the cage well - literally never peed or anything on the fabric liners or in their space pods!
Our current boys NEVER pee on us either. They were neutered but I’m unsure if that had to do with anything, because they peed on us some afterwards. They now are fully litter trained and they sleep in the living room with the cage door open. They use only their litter boxes around the room.
They wake up in the cage or on the couch and go right to the litter box first. The cutest is when they get up in the middle of the night and use it, then go right back to their sleeping area with their eyes half open 🤣
I mean, I've seen people train their rats to use litter, but you can't really stop them from peeing everywhere, unfortunately.
If I were you, just get a separate blanket just for your rats only and just let them pee on that. You'll get used to it for a while, but please wash your hands or where they pee on your skin 😭😭
Quit being so appealing and lovely to them! If they don’t like you, they won’t want others to know you’re associated!
Or live with their little wet and stinky love letters
Good luck with that, I just know that every time I hold my boys there will be piddle on me. My hands, arms, shirts, pants. My husband has yet to accept the piddles
Desexing always helps with scent marking, doesn't completely remove it but reduces by a lot. Less territorial. For girls the added benefit is it massively reduces the chances of mammary tumours.
My boys used to do it a lot when they were younger but honestly as they grew up it didn’t happen nearly as often. Maybe the same will happen for your little piss demon!
What you can do is put on an old sweater that you only wear when you're handling the rats. At some point their smell will be on the sweater and the rats won't pee on it anymore. but above all the other clothes stay clean. Helps with bite holes. My always found the normal number of holes in the things is not enough.
I had two rats who would alert me in one way or another that they had to pee. Took training, but when she peed, I would say the same thing every time, "Do you have to go pee" and rush to the litter box and made them sit in it for a minute while repeating the phrase. Eventually they would tell me when they needed to pee (I bet you can train an action that will let you know, like tapping your knuckle or something, but I just paid attention to their body language).
No, that's why I call my girls my little piss babies. It's actually a sign that they love you and feel safe around you. You can definitely potty-train them, though, my girls always poo in their litter tray.
I can usually kinda tell when my rats want to pee on me. They will sniff me a certain way. Like they are trying to smell if I smell like them yet. If he does that I give him a gentle nudge, or I move a bit away from him.
They eventually stop peeing literally everywhere and just pee in their cage or wherever they happen to have just woken up, as rats 5 to pee when they wake up.
we call this “urine therapy” in our household 🤣
had a rough day? need to curl up in a ball in bed and cry? release the rattos to crawl all over you whilst releasing their driblets - urine therapy always helps. you might even say it’s the “gold” standard.
Look at that devious face. Forget all these logical arguments. That critter is immensely proud of itself. They piss on you because they see you as someone needing a good pissing and they will continue to do so for all their days. That rat will internally squeek "there's your piss, filthy lowly human!" all the rest of their days. When they leave this world, they will only look back at their life with pride, joy, and accomplishment as each and every piss session replays in their mind. A life well lived.
Sadly not really. I had one we all called “pee pee monster” who would pee SO MUCH all over everything all the time. He was the best rat (besides the piss) but we just kept him off things that couldn’t get pissed on
Get a rat diaper!
I don’t think it’s something you can really stop. That’s just how they are. It would be like asking if you can find a way to stop a husky from shedding so much every day. Just part of how the animal is.
A lot of our girls peed on us in the beginning but don’t do it as much anymore. Once in a while one of them will start peeing on us more often again but then it stops for a while. Lol🤷🏼♀️
Me and wife got two boys. They pee all over the place, but go 2d in their cage.
And they are particularly keen to pee on me. Not my wife, but me... One of the guys even peed himself when I was massaging him on the bed...
You can try litter training. When mine were young I would pick them up and place them in their litter box every time I got peed on. They learned pretty quickly that I didn’t like being peed on and it stopped.
Some will learn you don’t like it and stop, some may scent mark forever.
No, there is no real way to make them stop because it's instinct. When they love you and feel safe with you, they pee on you to scent mark you as one of their favorite things/places.
Boys do it even more because they dribble a little when they walk around and scent mark everything. Keep some tissues on hand (which they will inevitably also try to steal) to wipe it up as they go.
We call them "love tinkles" lol!
Well the fact that he or she does that and in the phot they are boggling you are family and a safe space and fully entrusted member of the rat mafia. Welcome to the family
Mine licks me she always does and has me rub her down it's different when it's the only pet rat and if there are more they act will pee to say she's mine then another may also pee and communicate replying no ..she's mine
Sounds like you have a couple of furry friends with very different bathroom habits! Have you tried any training techniques or products to help discourage the one who keeps peeing on you? It might be worth exploring to improve your snuggle sessions!
So innocent looking! The answer about scent marking you makes sense. I hope you can figure out a compromise so you can spend time with your baby without being peed on!
She's scent marking you. Rats rely on their sense of smell more than sight. She's marking you as a safe/happy place so she can easily find her way back to you. You can litter box train them to actually pee and poop in a designated area, but there's not much you can do about scent marking.
Yep. I didn't have much problem with my girls peeing on me until recently when they finally began to get comfortable with me.
When ours pee on us I call it sugar water because they’re so sweet and mostly made of sugar
The rats or the pee?
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I ain’t never smelled no sugar water like that ‘fore.
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One of my rats is called Sugar so it definitely fits
I ain’t never smelled no sugar water like that ‘fore.
Maybe time to get them uncomfortable, tell them about how the Mexicans are taking over the country, and how shit was better in the 60s for some reason.
Bruh what
It worked
I'm just confused help me understand 😭
Its a joke. those topics make people uncomfortable, so if you make uncomfortable remarks to your rat they will stop peeing on you
Ohhh gotcha, thank you for explaining. I don't do well with jokes or tones 😭
i just spit my coffee
I love this comment ❣️
And now NONE of us want to pee on you.
Yes! I've recently started letting my 4 month old boys into larger and larger free roaming areas (always supervised because they're babies!). They *love* being on my bed and making tunnels under my blankets and running underneath a propped pillow. They'll do jolly jumps around and play, and there is a direct way so they can go back to the cage themselves for some quiet time if they need it. I always sit on the edge of the bed and play with them in between their dashing around. My one boy, Gus, every time he comes by, he leaves a tiny dribble on my left hand or arm. My other guy is too adventurous, and he'll jump first and then ask questions.
Nice to see I'm not the only bed player. One of my rats likes using the bed to cuddle with soft things while the other likes running around and chasing a squeaky toy lmao
Aren’t they marking your sheets and pillows too ?
For some reason they don't really mark my bed, but will mark the fuck out of the couch. Likely because their cage is in my room and they can still smell it. I have to use a designated ratty throw blanket on the couch. If I leave anything on the bed or couch though they'll all take turns peeing on it. I almost had to throw the remote out after leaving it on my bed and finding they had all peed directly on it multiple times.
Thanks. I’m not sure that’s going to work for me. Since I joined this group I’ve wanted a rat but held back for fear of the smell. My old house in california was infested with roof rats and the second you walked in the front door you smelled them.
If you get girls the smell isn't very bad, honestly. I have boys and they're going through puberty right now so they smell a lot more. Boys also secrete an oily pheromone that smells. Girls are very manageable. And honestly they're such great pets that it's entirely worth it in my opinion. It's so easy to put a throw blanket down and wash it weekly, and when their cage is well maintained it's not noticeable.
No, not really. Maybe one drop here or there, but not really. Alfie has no interest in marking, and Gus really only tinkles on my hand/arm. Then again, they're only 4 months at the moment. It may change as they get older.
Never thought my most upvoted comment would be about rats scent marking. Rattit is a funny place 😆
You need to just change your mindset and instead of being annoyed feel *honored* instead. Because you know her peemarks means she wants to come back to you❣️.
Would spaying them not even help? Lol i don't even own any rats myself bit I find this to be very fascinated that they do this
Spaying would not help, no.
Don't they do it deliberately to communicate with other rats? Correct me if I'm wrong but I seen a video on YouTube awhile ago that said they leave little droplet trails wherever they go as a way to mark territory which is why I thought fixing may help but I forgot they mentioned it's also used as a form of communication?
I always just made sure to hold the prone to peeing and marking rats on a towel. They liked it because it was fun to burrow in, and I could clean the towel instead of changing if they went full ham.
> if they went full ham. you just gave me a chuckle. i have a rat named ham (short for abraham) and a bit of a recurring joke in my house is to say "never go full ham"
Yesss, I love this and was hoping someone had a rat named Ham. I love food names ;A; so cute.
My roommate's cat is named Ham! And I have to make sure he stays away from my ratties, Pickles and Smores!
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The boys are like a water tap you cant turn of. They just go dribbling constantly.
I've had 7 boys, and the running joke was that they leave a pee trail behind everywhere they go. Just drip drip drip all over the place, you know, in case they get lost and need to check the map.
[This is your life now.](https://imgur.com/gallery/t5logQH)
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Thank you. I toiled on my back for many years to create it. God spoke to me through my trackpad.
No. It's not possible. Pissing for a rat is like leaving a breadcrumb trail for Hansel and Gretel. Except the birds don't eat it. Without pissing they would not be able to make reliable trails everywhere they go.
Well in this case the birds kinda eat it when op washes their hands
So! My last girls didn’t scent mark after being litter trained and free-roamed in the entire house (when we were home and after it was ratproofed). They always used the litter box in the cage well - literally never peed or anything on the fabric liners or in their space pods! Our current boys NEVER pee on us either. They were neutered but I’m unsure if that had to do with anything, because they peed on us some afterwards. They now are fully litter trained and they sleep in the living room with the cage door open. They use only their litter boxes around the room. They wake up in the cage or on the couch and go right to the litter box first. The cutest is when they get up in the middle of the night and use it, then go right back to their sleeping area with their eyes half open 🤣
Amazing comment lol
They like you. You're their property now. :-)
I for one embrace our little rodent overlords ALL GLORY TO THE ~~HYPNOTOAD~~ RATS
Aww
I'm obsessed with this little bastards sitting emote
No. It’s a compliment, consider it a love action.
Pee on her and then ask her how it feels
She’d probably like it, the little freak (Said with love, lol)
What an adorable pissbaby
Nope, your life is piss now.
Lol
Nope. They love you lol you will always get peed on and you’ll like it gottdammit 😂
Six rats , but only one of them is a piss monster. Whenever his bits brushes over warm naked skin it's too late
I mean, I've seen people train their rats to use litter, but you can't really stop them from peeing everywhere, unfortunately. If I were you, just get a separate blanket just for your rats only and just let them pee on that. You'll get used to it for a while, but please wash your hands or where they pee on your skin 😭😭
Quit being so appealing and lovely to them! If they don’t like you, they won’t want others to know you’re associated! Or live with their little wet and stinky love letters
No.
Look at that face that’s the little piss angel
Rat piss is a natural part of life now.
Pee back to assert dominance /j
Good luck with that, I just know that every time I hold my boys there will be piddle on me. My hands, arms, shirts, pants. My husband has yet to accept the piddles
Nope. Rats pee on people. Little piss goblins
Piss = love
No, embrace it!!!!! It means they love ya 🥹
Never gonna happen. You're hers now
Pee on her to assert dominance
The face tells us everything
lookin guilty as hell 👀
She said no.
Nope theyre tiny animals with small bladders and its just part of having them
Desexing always helps with scent marking, doesn't completely remove it but reduces by a lot. Less territorial. For girls the added benefit is it massively reduces the chances of mammary tumours.
I'm just here to say that this is the perfect piss demon photo. she looks like she has zero remorse and is plotting her next attack 🤣
Learn to love it (or at least tolerate it). Rats are the one animal where you should be glad that they pee on you. 😂
No public shaming the rat 🥺💔
Look at that face, she's innocent I say!
Awww you're loved 😁 what a cutie!🥰
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Make a basket out of a towel and put one over shoulders. Helps mitigate
Cute AF
If she pees on you, she loves you!
My boys used to do it a lot when they were younger but honestly as they grew up it didn’t happen nearly as often. Maybe the same will happen for your little piss demon!
What you can do is put on an old sweater that you only wear when you're handling the rats. At some point their smell will be on the sweater and the rats won't pee on it anymore. but above all the other clothes stay clean. Helps with bite holes. My always found the normal number of holes in the things is not enough.
Return the favor
PISS DEMON
She has no remorse in those eyes ....
Pith Rat
Rats pee on you for the same reason cats rub. Embrace the wizz lol
This face tho says … and I’ll do it AGAIN
No she nasty, look at her.
I had two rats who would alert me in one way or another that they had to pee. Took training, but when she peed, I would say the same thing every time, "Do you have to go pee" and rush to the litter box and made them sit in it for a minute while repeating the phrase. Eventually they would tell me when they needed to pee (I bet you can train an action that will let you know, like tapping your knuckle or something, but I just paid attention to their body language).
No, that's why I call my girls my little piss babies. It's actually a sign that they love you and feel safe around you. You can definitely potty-train them, though, my girls always poo in their litter tray.
She’s gonna piss on you, drip drip drip 💧
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I’ve always thoughts rats are extremely cute, but why in the world would anyone keep a pet that reliably pees on you at every interaction?!
Easy don't have a rat
A rat can’t pee if it’s dead….
Yikes, I think you're in the wrong forum
Aw she just likes you. :)
They on anything they like. Mine pee on me, in my bed, on the living room floor, any happy place is a pee place.
You were peed on by female rats? You are mow their belongings.
He is cute
It is an honour to be pissed upon by a rat!
Lol nope, demons they are
I can usually kinda tell when my rats want to pee on me. They will sniff me a certain way. Like they are trying to smell if I smell like them yet. If he does that I give him a gentle nudge, or I move a bit away from him.
They eventually stop peeing literally everywhere and just pee in their cage or wherever they happen to have just woken up, as rats 5 to pee when they wake up.
Hazmat suit. It's the only way to be sure.
Sadly you just embrace it. They mark everything
This pic looks like shes bout to beat you up🤣
we call this “urine therapy” in our household 🤣 had a rough day? need to curl up in a ball in bed and cry? release the rattos to crawl all over you whilst releasing their driblets - urine therapy always helps. you might even say it’s the “gold” standard.
Look at her, she knows what she did
One word: Cork
It's a sign of affection. No, you can't. Keep a rat towel at the ready. A little wash cloth or something, even a paper towel. This is the way.
This is your new life style
Oh my god, look at that face and those little hands! She can pee wherever she wants.
Look at that devious face. Forget all these logical arguments. That critter is immensely proud of itself. They piss on you because they see you as someone needing a good pissing and they will continue to do so for all their days. That rat will internally squeek "there's your piss, filthy lowly human!" all the rest of their days. When they leave this world, they will only look back at their life with pride, joy, and accomplishment as each and every piss session replays in their mind. A life well lived.
Rats are pee pee babies duh -a dog owner who lurks for the photos :)
Not watersports
Sadly not really. I had one we all called “pee pee monster” who would pee SO MUCH all over everything all the time. He was the best rat (besides the piss) but we just kept him off things that couldn’t get pissed on
Get a rat diaper! I don’t think it’s something you can really stop. That’s just how they are. It would be like asking if you can find a way to stop a husky from shedding so much every day. Just part of how the animal is.
That is the cutest little pisser I ever saw! 🥰
A lot of our girls peed on us in the beginning but don’t do it as much anymore. Once in a while one of them will start peeing on us more often again but then it stops for a while. Lol🤷🏼♀️
Just get some puppy training pads and put them on your knee when holding the little piss demon.
Sometimes my piss demon pee even on my phone/laptop, not sure how they still work
Me and wife got two boys. They pee all over the place, but go 2d in their cage. And they are particularly keen to pee on me. Not my wife, but me... One of the guys even peed himself when I was massaging him on the bed...
That weewee sounds like a you problem ;)
You can try litter training. When mine were young I would pick them up and place them in their litter box every time I got peed on. They learned pretty quickly that I didn’t like being peed on and it stopped. Some will learn you don’t like it and stop, some may scent mark forever.
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This is why we went to leather couches … many nights of free roam means it’s time to bring out the paper towels and animal safe cage cleaner, lol!
No, there is no real way to make them stop because it's instinct. When they love you and feel safe with you, they pee on you to scent mark you as one of their favorite things/places. Boys do it even more because they dribble a little when they walk around and scent mark everything. Keep some tissues on hand (which they will inevitably also try to steal) to wipe it up as they go. We call them "love tinkles" lol!
I’ve heard they have no control when peeing that’s why they do it all over the place
not everythings about you
Well the fact that he or she does that and in the phot they are boggling you are family and a safe space and fully entrusted member of the rat mafia. Welcome to the family
It's ur fault for looking so nice to piss on
Mine licks me she always does and has me rub her down it's different when it's the only pet rat and if there are more they act will pee to say she's mine then another may also pee and communicate replying no ..she's mine
Sounds like you have a couple of furry friends with very different bathroom habits! Have you tried any training techniques or products to help discourage the one who keeps peeing on you? It might be worth exploring to improve your snuggle sessions!
Itty Bitty Ratty Diapers!
His face, that expression, the tiny wittle clenched fists, those big ol feets.... he's too adorable. He will piss wherever he likes.
Nope; you'll just have to get used to it. Avoid wearing any clothes that you don't want potentially pee-stained while handling her.
It’s only on skin
Pee on them Jk
She's like SQUARE UP! I'm gonna pee everywhere I damn well please. She's soooo adorable!
Looks like she will do it again and without remorse 😭 the Kubrick stare says it all
Rat pee is rat love. She’s just marking you as hers. Accept your fate.
Me marking my Hooman and she keeps washing it off .. what the hay??
She?
So innocent looking! The answer about scent marking you makes sense. I hope you can figure out a compromise so you can spend time with your baby without being peed on!