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40 Times Rats Were Caught Being So Charming, As Seen On This Dedicated “Legalize Rats” Twitter Page
Let's do a little thought experiment - imagine the five most disgusting animals to you. Now let's think about which extremely common animal is most likely to be in the top five for almost every person? That's right - a rat!
Indeed, the global culture for centuries has been very unfair to these fluffy hairballs with nice bare tails. Yes, in the old days, rats carried lethal diseases, but they didn’t do it on purpose! And now let's remember at least some old pieces of art where a rat was portrayed as a good guy! Don't try, you just don't remember!
But in fact, rats are very cute and really smart animals. And there's a wonderful Twitter account called "The Rat Review" which posts memes and images that are meant to glorify rats in the face of humanity.
Today the page has around 52K followers, and we are sure that after the publication of Bored Panda's curated list with its best pictures, there will be even more followers, and the army of rat fans in the world will also grow.
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Laura Ford-Everett 3 years ago
I have five (well 2 have passed in the last two weeks) so now three and they delight me every day with their smiley faces, silly ears and nibbly noises when they are happy. Called bruxing. A totally amazing pet!
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Diedre Barlow 3 years ago
I had a pet rat that looked like this once. I named him Axl and he sat on my shoulder all the time I had him out of his cage making affectionate squeaks in my ear. If I let him out in my room to exercise he would just want to be with me all the time instead. It's been over 20 years and I still miss that big dude so badly.
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Marion Friedl 3 years ago
Myth debunked, it weren´t only the cats who caused the #ToiletPaperCrisis2020 LOL, some dogs or - like here - rats were also involved. 🤣🤣🤣
It is not true that rats abandon their babies almost as soon as they learn to eat and crawl on their own. Mother rats are very caring, and sometimes even carry their offsprings on their backs - especially if they sleep so sweetly. Rats are not in vain used by scientists in their research - they are really very smart and quick-witted.
In fact, rats are quite easy to train, and become true friends for their owners. They especially love it when their fluffy tummies are scratched (however, rats are not alone here - who in this world does not like to have one's tummy scratched?)
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Ephemeral Mochi 3 years ago
I had to look up 'that painting with the finger pointy thing' to make this reference cuz I didn't know what it was called images-87-...d73f7.jpeg 
Zophra 3 years ago
"The Creation of Adam" ... but here: "The Creator of a Pet Owner..."
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January Tempis 3 years ago
Who's the cutest? Who's the cutest? Me, me, I'm the cutest!! (Yes, you definitely are!)
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Marion Friedl 3 years ago
LOL I loved geometry at school, but not the rest of maths. When we arrived at sinus, cosinus and logarithms it all made so no sense to me anymore. You do not go to a store and order a sinus of bananas, you order a pound of banans for a certain price.
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Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
This one made me burst out laughing! What a wonderfully doofy baby!
Gin Sutaraito 3 years ago
I feel that, spinach has never been my favorite
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Ephemeral Mochi 3 years ago
I want a pet rat so badly but my mom hates them with a passion. She thinks their tails are gross :(
Bobbie Meyers 3 years ago
Rats keep themselves as clean as cats. But you have to get two, same gender.
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*Displayname*=idk 3 years ago
🎶 they see me rollin, they hating, they trying to catch me riding dirty 🎶
Probably the only work in modern popular culture depicting a good rat is the famous Pixar's cartoon 'Ratatouille'. But even here there is room for a really sad fact.
Actually for the truthful display of rotting vegetables and fruits on screen, Pixar studio employees collected a whole garbage heap, which, of course, attracted many live rats. So, after filming 'Ratatouille' the staff ruthlessly called in the deratisation service... Definitely, this Twitter page with cute rat memes should have appeared even earlier.
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Laura Ford-Everett 3 years ago
Awe they look like little Dwarf ratties...the ears...dying. Best pets ever.
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Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
These little creatures have big personalities…I rat-sat for a friend and I was so enamored! Unfortunately, they live for only a couple of years.
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Rin (all pronouns) 1 year ago
Blursed image. This is the type of thing I have in my camera roll.
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GoodWolf 3 years ago
They don't poop where they sleep, so you just have to let it go potty from time to time and there will be no souvenir.
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Marion Friedl 3 years ago
Me fightz fur #Ukraine, even uz ratz #StandWithUkraine. Uz wantz #PeaceForUkraine, uz #PrayForUkraine, uz iz #UnitedWithUkraine, uz sayz #NoWar, uz sayz #FCKPutin. #MayUkraineWinTheWar. #PawsCrossedForUkraine. 💖💖💖🐾🐾🐾☮️☮️☮️
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Creeper From The Black Lagoon 3 years ago
Look at those eyes, it's old fashioned infrared wireless.
Marion Friedl 3 years ago
Oops, that is not my computer mouse, it´s much too fluffy. Apparently you should always watch what your doing at your computer...
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Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
In my years of combing through BP, never has that word been more aptly applied than here!
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Populus tremuloides(they/them) 3 years ago
Despite all that I withstand, I'm still just a rat in a band
Federico Guerrero-Isaza 3 years ago
Sing us a song, you´re the piano rat, sing us a song tonight
Oh yeah, there is another famous rat in popular culture. This is an outstanding martial artist, as well as a connoisseur of the Renaissance art, named Splinter, who became the teacher of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It was Splinter, by the way, who gave the turtles their world-famous names.
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Rin (all pronouns) 1 year ago
I had a rat with that name bc he always sat on my head
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Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
The one on the right is (in my eyes, at least), the perfect rat; the one on the left…not so much!
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago (edited)
The one on the left sparked a horrible suspicion... so I googled, and yes, they do exist... furless ("sphynx") rats. 😕 (Edit: By "horrible" I don't mean they're ugly. Just, why do humans create such unnatural breeding)
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Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
Bath-time and then bed-time…how convenient that they both happen in the same place!
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Adrienne Mcginley 3 years ago
The hands are begging to PLEASE get it out of that silly thing....
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Kona Pake 3 years ago
You do know that there is a law against overloading animals, don’t you?
Load More Replies... Gin Sutaraito 3 years ago
If you modify it a bit and give it a jacket, you could make it an AOT rat
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Hyde and Seek 3 years ago
I mean similarly applied pressure does work for cats & dogs so maybe?
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Just a ray of f'ing sunshine 3 years ago
Maybe the rat likes playing in the water
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Marion Friedl 3 years ago
Hoomin, i needz halp, where iz da famouz light at da end ob da tunnel???
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Sullivan Weinroth 2 years ago
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the awesome Piplup 3 years ago
Oh.....My......Gosh.......IT'S SOOOOOOO CUTE!!!!!!😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🥰🥰😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😍🥰🥰😍😍🥰😍😍🥰🥰😍🥰🥰😍🥰🥰😋🥰🥰😍🥰😍🥰😍🥰
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Marion Friedl 3 years ago
No jumping around for me, I need a Porsche for the poor (walker) outside my apartment, here´s a #Disabled longtime #LupusSurvivor commenting. So I prefer to chill.
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Angeline Nealy 3 years ago
Oh oops I accidentally said the same thing lol
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Well co-fur-ed, like my Gizzy (eventually you have to click on the photo URL to see his photo, my cats have an own Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/Gizzy-Thori-and-lil-Angel-Sisi-da-second-hand-kittehz-576379702467034, followers always welcome), so cute lil rats in this whole post. 10570554_1...4578ad.jpg 
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Populus tremuloides(they/them) 3 years ago
A bowl of peas in water is a really great way to keep rats cool in the summer (although they can be considered cool all of the time)
Diedre Barlow 3 years ago
I put a small jar filled with ice in with my rat during a hot summer. I think he liked it because he tried to cuddle it when he was asleep.
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Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
Great job! It doesn’t look photoshopped, but I’m not sure this is actually possible without it…
BlackestDawn 3 years ago
I'd say the masking and outline of the cards to fit in their hands is done great, but I'd say they are a bit too bright compared to the lighting in general and thus stand out a bit too much.
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Moo Moo Futch 3 years ago
My mum used to be a cabaret singer on weekends and as a treat on the way home would get a bag of cheese balls (basically round Cheetos). We also had a Ratty called Ben who would hear her come home with the bag and run down his ramp and up to the edge and stand on his hind legs and beg for them. He didn't want to come out of his home, he wanted us to bring them to him so he could select the ones he wanted and stash them in his little hide holes and then snack on them over night. Hearing him shaving one down with his cheesy paws was so cute. I love rats, I just wish they lived longer :(
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Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
How is it posing so patiently for the pic without being tempted to eat???
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
Look at its belly…I think it’s fairly well sated!!!
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Ro Bird 3 years ago
It's a mod called Rats. It's so good! Highly recommend
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Edward H K III 3 years ago
I don’t have the slightest idea as to what happened to the cheese on your burger
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Jamie Andersen 3 years ago
They had this same episode on "Lost." (SPOILER ALERT) Rat escapes and marries Jack only to realize they were dead the entire time on the Island.
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
If you have rats, here's a really fun thing you can do: get one of those long paper bags they put bottles of booze in, and hang it up inside the cage with a bulldog clip or something like that. In a matter of minutes you'll have zero rats in sight and a bag moving around like it's possessed. It's so funny. And then they get to enjoy tearing the bag to pieces and scurrying back to the nest dragging huge pieces of brown paper in their mouths. 😆
El Dee 3 years ago
Giving them things like this is so important. They are intelligent and social and need stimulation..
Load More Replies... Bobbie Meyers 3 years ago
Yes, boys are big squishy couch potatos. Girls are more active. Both equally loving. Much less stinky than mice.
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Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
If you do get some, don't have one but at least two 😊
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Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
Rats are so stinkin' cute!! Years ago I got one by pure chance when some a$$hole left her on a trail and quickly drove away - the poor baby desperately ran after passerbys for help, clearly used to being handled and NOT used to the great outdoors! I picked her up and took her home with me. Presented her to the vet next day for a checkup - turns out she was rather old already and maybe a lab rat - therefore I spared her the stress of getting to know new (young) rats. She still lived her best life for almost another year before one day she just dropped dead without any sign of illness in advance.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I once rescued about six pet rats who had been dumped in a drain and left to die by some heartless scumbag. >:( I was able to find new homes for all but two of them, who I kept. I also rescued a big cuddly boy who had likewise been dumped and was living in some lady's woodpile. She was terrified of rats, but compassionate enough to notice how he kept walking up to her like he was asking for help. Her daughter knew my mother and therefore knew I was a "rat person", so I was asked to come and take him away. I found him in his sad little nest in the woodpile, and reached down there thinking he would bite me or run away, or both, but no - he started sniffing my fingers as if to say hello and let me pick him up! I took him home, and he was so starved his skin was hanging off him, but right away he was trying to climb onto my shoulder. I soon had him well fed and in good health and we were the best of friends. He suddenly died a few months later, but I never forgot him.
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Bobbie Meyers 3 years ago
When I was a kid, I snagged a new born rat some stupid kid brought to school. Mom carried him around in her shirt pocket while I was at school. One time we peek in and he's on his back, sucking his thumb and holding his tail like a blanket in the other hand. His name was Rocky and he was the best! Lived to almost five.
Marion Friedl 3 years ago
Pet rats are totally underestimated, actually rats make great pets for kids because, differently than the nocturnal hamsters or the shy rabbits, guinea pigs, degus or chinchillas, they love the interaction with their humans, and they can be potty-trained and can learn a lot of tricks, like "play dead", "stand on your hind legs" and so on, they love to learn new tricks. Some of my Facebook and Twitter friends have rats, and theirs are all potty-trained, they use a kind of tiny litterboxes and do not pee or poop around anywhere else.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
If you have rats, here's a really fun thing you can do: get one of those long paper bags they put bottles of booze in, and hang it up inside the cage with a bulldog clip or something like that. In a matter of minutes you'll have zero rats in sight and a bag moving around like it's possessed. It's so funny. And then they get to enjoy tearing the bag to pieces and scurrying back to the nest dragging huge pieces of brown paper in their mouths. 😆
El Dee 3 years ago
Giving them things like this is so important. They are intelligent and social and need stimulation..
Load More Replies... Bobbie Meyers 3 years ago
Yes, boys are big squishy couch potatos. Girls are more active. Both equally loving. Much less stinky than mice.
Load More Replies... Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
If you do get some, don't have one but at least two 😊
Load More Replies... Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
Rats are so stinkin' cute!! Years ago I got one by pure chance when some a$$hole left her on a trail and quickly drove away - the poor baby desperately ran after passerbys for help, clearly used to being handled and NOT used to the great outdoors! I picked her up and took her home with me. Presented her to the vet next day for a checkup - turns out she was rather old already and maybe a lab rat - therefore I spared her the stress of getting to know new (young) rats. She still lived her best life for almost another year before one day she just dropped dead without any sign of illness in advance.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I once rescued about six pet rats who had been dumped in a drain and left to die by some heartless scumbag. >:( I was able to find new homes for all but two of them, who I kept. I also rescued a big cuddly boy who had likewise been dumped and was living in some lady's woodpile. She was terrified of rats, but compassionate enough to notice how he kept walking up to her like he was asking for help. Her daughter knew my mother and therefore knew I was a "rat person", so I was asked to come and take him away. I found him in his sad little nest in the woodpile, and reached down there thinking he would bite me or run away, or both, but no - he started sniffing my fingers as if to say hello and let me pick him up! I took him home, and he was so starved his skin was hanging off him, but right away he was trying to climb onto my shoulder. I soon had him well fed and in good health and we were the best of friends. He suddenly died a few months later, but I never forgot him.
Load More Replies... Bobbie Meyers 3 years ago
When I was a kid, I snagged a new born rat some stupid kid brought to school. Mom carried him around in her shirt pocket while I was at school. One time we peek in and he's on his back, sucking his thumb and holding his tail like a blanket in the other hand. His name was Rocky and he was the best! Lived to almost five.
Marion Friedl 3 years ago
Pet rats are totally underestimated, actually rats make great pets for kids because, differently than the nocturnal hamsters or the shy rabbits, guinea pigs, degus or chinchillas, they love the interaction with their humans, and they can be potty-trained and can learn a lot of tricks, like "play dead", "stand on your hind legs" and so on, they love to learn new tricks. Some of my Facebook and Twitter friends have rats, and theirs are all potty-trained, they use a kind of tiny litterboxes and do not pee or poop around anywhere else.
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