Can rats and mice be kept in the same cage?

Our apartment seems to have become the critter apartment with 3 ferrets, 6 rats, a tarantula and soon a sugar glider. So when a friend of ours asked if we wanted to take in a mouse it was no problem. I am wondering if the rats and the mouse can be kept together or if we need to get the mouse a seperate cage.

7 Responses to Can rats and mice be kept in the same cage?

  1. Rats are much larger then mice. I would think the rat would kill the mouse.

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  2. Unfortunately, no.
    Even introducing another rat to a rat’s cage often ends in tragedy.

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  3. You seem to love pet, Me too I love pet!

    Its not good to mix them together cause rats are bigger and meaner and might kill the mouse.
    You should a new home for your mouse.

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  4. No. The rats would kill the mouse in a second. The mouse has to be housed separately.

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  5. for_the_love_of_poms

    NNOO!!!! do not keep them in the same cage, they will kill each other!!!

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  6. Do I look good in Gray?

    No. Rats eat Mice. Sorry.

    ~~~~(O8:> …(squeak, squeak….run, run, it’s the Rat!)

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  7. no

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