How much does it cost to take care of rats?
It depends on where you’re buying your food. I would put 50 a month at a safe estimate for bedding and food, more depending on cage size, plus your ‘rat vet fund’ will be the ‘left over’ money from the food/bedding/toys. You will need to put money aside each month towards vet bills, rats do get sick and require treatment. http://ratfanclub.org/helpinfo.html that page has info on the things that can go wrong. Don’t forget that you’ll have ‘startup’ costs of a cage, water bottle, food dish, little houses for inside the cage, toys, and all that happy stuff. I’d make a list of what you intend to buy at first, research some food and figure out what foods you’ll feed, how much each day to figure out amounts per month. Then go to like, petsmart.com and figure out prices, or just go up to the pet store and price some things. They’re rewarding pets, just remember that you probably will eventually have a vet bill of some sort, and
