2007-05-25 04:59:57 · 10 answers · asked by emerge c 1 in Pets ➔ Rodents
No, you need a male and female rat. If you bought a female and she had babies several weeks later, she was pregnant when you got her. This is VERY common for pet store rats.
2007-05-25 05:05:29 · answer #1 · answered by Annie B. Mice 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only in the sense that they don't need any outside help other than their own species.
It still takes a male rat and a female rat to produce more rats.
2007-05-25 05:07:46 · answer #2 · answered by . 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you have a female rat that you recently bought from a pet store (with the past month) and she had babies, she was pregnant when you got her.
If you've had her for MORE than a month and she had babies -- and there are NO male rats in the house -- then it's possible that a wild rat got in and mated with her. They can, believe it or not, 'do it' right through the cage bars!
Enjoy the babies!
2007-05-25 05:37:05 · answer #3 · answered by luvrats 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What, you mean without coming in to contact with a rat of the opposite sex?
No.
Chalice
2007-05-25 06:06:05 · answer #4 · answered by Chalice 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Meaning, are they hermaphrodites? No. There are male and female rats.
2007-05-25 05:02:46 · answer #5 · answered by Samantha_is_Sparks22 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
rats are mammals, therefore requiring sexual reproduction with a mate
2007-05-25 06:24:30 · answer #6 · answered by Chels! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No but they can get pregnant often and their pregnancies last only a short period of time.
2007-05-25 05:08:28 · answer #7 · answered by Christina G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no you need a male and a female. then you will have more little critters then you know what to do with.
2007-05-28 20:25:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no it takes a male and the superior female
2007-05-25 06:14:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
of course not they are mammals
2007-05-25 05:04:35 · answer #10 · answered by Orla F 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋