“Generally all apartments that accept pets allow solely cats and small dogs. These animals, however generally wreak havoc on apartments. Following are animals that spend most of their time caged but may be more attractive to landlords than dogs that dig and cats that scratch. Perhaps your perfect pet is within.”
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I have had a few of these pets. Currently we have a kitty running around the house who is currently latched onto my arm w/his deathgrip by paws. We love him very much. Chinchilla’s are good pets too, but the guy is right, they do need human interaction. W/o it they become very fearful and won’t want to interact at all. It was hell trying to get my chinkilla out even to let me hold him for five minutes.

And onto the rats. Like the article says, everyone hates them. Believe it or not, they arent bad pets at all. Yes. sewer rats are filthy, but they live in filth. Go buy a fat black rat from a pet store, plop him in a 10 gallon fish tank with some wood shavings, an igloo house & some empty toilet paper rolls [they chew on them, its good for their teeth], and you have one hell of a pet. Mine used to sit on my shoulder when i’d take him out of the cage. When I was off work, i’d get him free range a bit around the house. He enjoyed it. Don’t discount the rat as a good pet.