I am adding to my brood of rats (Have caught GMR ) and was hoping to get some girls this time. I was just wondering if they would be ok next to the boys cage. I wouldn't want the boys to be fighting each other because they could smell the girls...just wondering your thoughts on this??

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Charlie - Westhighland Terrier

The Boys - Alfie, Marley, Jenson & Lewis - Dumbo Rats
RIP -Fluff aka Madame cholet - Syrian Hamster

As far as i am aware they should be fine... All males do have a bit of fighting called Rat Boxing, where they stand on the hind legs and biatch slap each other and sometimes wrestle.....
When the Females come into season the males may do this a little bit more but nothing to be to worried about to be honest, to be on the safe side get brothers oppose to unrelated Males

Why? I have never noticed any more issues with unrelated rats as opposed to brothers/relatives to be honest.

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When the females come into heat i have had issues with non-related brothers scrapping over the females, never had an issue with brothers

My boys live underneath my girls and there are no problems here at all. They just don't care. And most of my rats are unrelated - I don't really understand that point.

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Oscar the dog
Rufus the cat
Manny, Floyd, Boba, Maida, Nilda, George, Tom, Tiny, William & Eugene the rats
Bobby the hamster

My boys live under the girls and my boys are also largely unrelated, they box occasionally and Ive struggled to bond these last two hairless ones but they are on the whole unnaffected by the prescence of the opposite sex. If anything its the girls who are the naughty ones, I get mugged and have to have my hand thouroughly licked clean when Ive been touching the boys first.

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gsds (Henrick and Bella), the cats (Syd, Lilly, Elvis and Dizzy), the gerbils (Honey, Lisa, crusty, Millhouse, Flanders, Bart and Homer), the rats (Valentine, Flower, Petal, Blossom, Koda, Cava, George), the mice (Minnie, Pop, Seudag, Caraid, Silver, Trouble, Athena, Pandora, Aphrodite, Meep, and Springtime)

My boys (2 unrelated groups that now live together) are 2ft away from the girls, never had any problems with them, if anything my girls are the squabblers

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My girls are right next door to my boy's, as TDM said the girls are more of an issue LOL

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Yeah typical...females causing riots ha ha

I'm did read on a forum somewhere someone who had trouble with the two sexes in close proximity, must have just been a one of case...Here come the girls YAY!!!!

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Charlie - Westhighland Terrier

The Boys - Alfie, Marley, Jenson & Lewis - Dumbo Rats
RIP -Fluff aka Madame cholet - Syrian Hamster