To me the biggest pro (from what I've heard) is that they don't stink nearly as much to raise. I understand them to be an arid creature like gerbils or hamsters that don't make a big wet mess like mice and Norway rats. I'm thinking I could actually pull off raising them in my house.



Unfortunately they still seem to be rare enough that I doubt I'll have many to choose from but would of course like to find the largest and most docile lines possible and try to breed to improve even more on those traits. I wonder how quick selection progress could be made?



I am used to feeding pretty big rats though. I know a lot of people feel that smaller is better but I can't always feed as often as I would like. I even upped one of my just barely breeding sized females to large Norway rats last week. And my 3,000 gram girls don’t even get a lump from a large rat. So feeding multiples would be new for me but if I had my own colony I could feed a lot more often. No finding time for trips to the rat breeder and feeder budgets to get in the way.

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