Meet my pet rats!

I like the second picture of you holding the rat! It's almost cartoonish. That's quite the awesome cage set up you've got for your little friends. It looks like they've got plenty of space to move and play in.

I agree that rats get a bad rep. I can't get past the thoughts of how gross it was in 2007 when the block of military housing we were in became mice infested and they'd poop and pee in everyone's ovens. Ugh. However those were wild mice, these are cute and clean domesticated rats. Big difference.