If you have a pet hamster is it true that rats can smell them and will be brought to your home ?
2006-08-27 02:10:37 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
i never had that problem
2006-08-27 02:14:26 · answer #1 · answered by melewis676 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, that is NOT true. If you have rats, it's because they found a hole, and got in to come out of cold weather. Clean up the house really good, keep the hamster cages clean, and call an exterminator. Or, use a rodent bomb to get rid of them. But take the hamsters out of the house before doing that.
2006-08-27 04:43:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
ermmmmmmm... good qiestion.
i have hadf a hamster be for and i had no rats .
but my friend had a hamster and got rats .
it could of just been a coinidence but to be on the saf side watch what your hamster eats and the type of bedding ou use.
give your hamster no smell food and use lavender smelling bedding . p.s rats dont like lavender and any other sweet smells .
2006-08-27 03:49:32 · answer #3 · answered by kuttytj101 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not at all! But when my hamster died I got a pet gerbil and when my gerbil died I got a pet rat. I love rats!
2006-08-27 02:16:54 · answer #4 · answered by songbird 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Only if the hamster wants to have a party!
2006-08-27 02:48:53 · answer #5 · answered by lotta 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it is true that rats can smell them but it will not bring them into your home filth will bring them in or heat rats are scavengers and a house is easy food warm and cozy to them lol
2006-08-27 02:18:39 · answer #6 · answered by steamroller98439 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Now I do know that the rats may be attracted to the hamster food, so keep it in a metal container or something that a rat cannot chew through...I do not know if when a female hamster goes into "heat" (starts attracting male hamsters) if a male rat may also find that attractive? Maybe you should talk to a vet.
If you live in a rural area, mice/rats may want to come into your home if you have pet foods (my mother got mice because she had dog food and kept it stored in a big plastic trash can thinking that would keep the mice out...haha the mice just went and gnawed a small hole in the backside of the plastic trash can) one morning when she started her washer, it began to smoke and it was because the mice had taken the pieces of stolen dog food and made theirselves a nest in the top controls of her washer!) It ruined the washer's controls (she had to buy a new one), and she found out that you have to have something to store food stuffs in that the mice cannot chew through! Glass for kitchen containers and metal cans make mice less able to get to food stuff. If you can take plain steel wool and pack it around even the smallest openings around your plumbing pipes (or other accesses to the outside of your home), where mice/rats could gnaw and make these holes larger so they can get through easily...They cannot gnaw the steel wool, so pack it around any holes to help keep the mice and rats from trying to get in...Do not use the kind of steel wool that you buy with soap like Brillo or something, go to the Hardware store and get the plain kind, and seal those places after you have stuffed them with steal wool! That will cut back on the mice/rats and their ability to enter...
Mice and rats carry diseases so you need to KNOW that you can keep them away from your kitchen and food, they will eat grains, cereals or even dry macaroni/pasta and breads or just about anything, they love things that smell of meat too...My husband had a cast iron skillet and he kept it greased and forbade me to wash it, until we got up one morning and found mouse droppings in it! He said it wasn't hurt he would just wipe it out, I took the dang thing and scrubbed the h out of it with soap and water, and I told him if he had to grease it again that he would have to keep it in a metal can or something where the mice could not get at it to eat the grease off of it, just DISGUSTING! Needless to say, we settled on putting the greased skillet in the fridge between uses, mice have a more difficult time getting or liking it in the fridge.
I have heard an old wives tale that claims if you go on the hunt to trap mice/rats that they will begin to chew up things that you care about in retaliation/revenge...there may be some truth to that, I do know that they will gnaw on things so they can use things for nesting materials, so you need to make their entry and existence in your home less desireable, and if you have to set traps you have to be careful that you put them out of the way of your domestic pets...Mice/rat traps if set off by a curious little dog's nose could seriously injure dogs or cats. So you could try glue boards, they hold whatever comes in contact with them in place...but they do not kill, so what you do with the live vermin after you have caught it, is up to you. I always like the traps that kill, but after they gnawed up a nice cashmere sweater for me, I began to use the glue boards and I would let my husband take care of the live critters that got caught...It does no good to catch them alive and take them outside to release them, because they just find their path back into your home...They can get through VERY small holes too!
Good luck!
2006-08-27 04:33:17 · answer #7 · answered by ruthie_msw 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only when she can;t find a nice guy
2006-08-27 02:34:55 · answer #8 · answered by eyesclosed24 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dont let them have access to your phone anymore. Then they wont be able to call their friends over.
2006-08-27 02:16:27 · answer #9 · answered by kristycordeaux 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
only if you don't clean your house up
2006-08-27 03:36:34 · answer #10 · answered by socalledchema 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no but they attract ants
2006-08-27 05:49:57 · answer #11 · answered by freekiladie 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋