Do you like rodents?

gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs and a brief encounter with mice for a school project - I guess we've run the gambit of the average rodent pet owner.... but no rats. our favorite thus far has been the deju! oh what a delightful creature he was... sadly the cat found him delightful too. :/

I personally love hamsters and used to keep mice, but unfortunately my elsest daughter has a phobia, she can't even cope with the guinea pigs I have, rabbits are the smallest creatures she can cope with. I have to install rodent deterrent plug ins at her house she shares at university. She will literally freeze. If we go to the zoo she will not got anywhere near anything that is like a mouse or rat. She has had to face this fear when she was travelling in Australia, there was a rat under her bed in a hostel they were staying at, she survived but is still just as terrified, bless. She even left home for a month once cos she thought we had mice. Ellie :D

I never liked rodents. Whatever they look like they are still rodents and they are a pest. I used to like rabbits and hamsters but one time my classmate's hamsters escaped from their cage and they did some damage. They maybe small damage compared to the ones caused by rats and mice but still they are not pleasant.

I have had gerbils and rats. They fun pets to have, but you do have to clean their cage often so it doesn't smell. I really liked my gerbils.

I absolutly adore rodents! My Parents have a guinea Pig named Don Juan it is the third guinea pig for the family. The first was named Chum and the second was named Piglet. Two years ago I recieved a hamster named Buckley for christmas but he has since passed away. I am now the proud owner of a rat named Nosie and a mouse named Whisper. I love the rat the best, but shhh don't tell my mouse. My ratty is very affectionate and likes to curl up with me. She is young and still pretty adventerous and she likes to explore my bed and try to escape. My guinea pig just sits in my lap like a big warm fuzzy lump but I love him just the same. My mousie is very anti social and doesnt really like people very much. But she is way to cute to dislike

I like rodents because their furs are so soft that I feel like I would squish it. My favourite ones are hamsters. They are also very soft.

I love rats! I used to have rats. I was especially close to Lucca my rat. He was my buddy. They are very smart creatures and I think that the rats that are sniffing out land mines are absolutely amazing! They're so lovable and adorable and i love how soft they are. My rat used to play chasey with me. I'd run up to him then run away, then he'd chase me, nibble on my foot and wait for me to run away again. He chased me around my bedroom for ages-he was so cute! I miss my little Lucca. However I would like a pet ferret, althoughI hear that they can be quite cheeky. I also don't think we're allowed them where I live, not without a permit anyway.

I do not like rodents. I am scared of mice and rats and think they they are very dirty creatures. They are know for spreading disease and just being a nuisence. I don't have anything against gerbils and such I just could never own one because they remind me of mice.

Oh gosh, no no. Not me definitely. Rodents are just not my kind of pet... I mean, they are rodents!!

I love all animals. I have had gerbils, hamsters, rats, and mice. Rats are my favorite. They are the most intelligent of the four listed and the love to hang out with you and on you. Mice are my next favorite. Female rats and mice don't smell as bad as males.

We had mice and gerbils growing up. My son has had a hamster and a total of 3 gerbils. It is kind of funny how we keep some rodents as pets, but if we see one running across our floor uninvited we freak out.

My kids used to have two gerbils, when they were younger, and we had to get rid of them. One of them got sick and attacked the other one. It went crazy and sucked the eye balls out of the other one and ate half of its face. We didn't notice right away, till the smell told us something was wrong. The poor thing was still alive so we had to kill it, and since the other one went nuts we had to kill it too. I called the vet to ask why this happened and she told me that it probably got a brain tumor and went nuts. She said that is common if they have a brain tumor, they get very aggresive and will do something like this. After this incident we never got anymore. We threw out the tank, fish tank, and all the toys and the kids never wanted any more ever again. They are now adults and they remember this as we just were talking about it not that long ago.

I like mickey mouse but i hate rats. I hate it. I'm afraid of Liptospirosis a disease from this rodents. good luck to the year of the rat.

Yes, I love all animals actually I have two Rats - they are the sweetest!

I have to be the odd one out and say that I don't like mice or rats... too many encounters with the wild ones, I guess. Hamsters are cute, though, but I don't like cleaning cages so I don't have one. I like rabbits, either wild or domesticated, too. Guess it depends on what rodent.

I love gerbils, but my mum when I was young refused to have rodents in the house! So It wasn't until I was 23 that I got my first pair of gerbils, I was living with an ex at the time and I even remembered their names, Jake and Robbie LOL! Bless. Well my ex did something stupid and unforgiveable, when he took them out of the cage to clean it one of them escaped, we never found Robbie. A few months I left him and sadly I couldn't take Jake back to my parents so he stayed with my ex. I never had any rodents after that episode.

I just don't know why... but i have this distinct fear of rodents, mice, or any animal that resemble them... i can't stand being around them... i remember when i was working in GTMO Cuba... there were Banana Rats that were bigger than cats... these creatures were not at all harmful... they sleep during the day and come out at night... but i still fear them everytime i see them sleeping up a tree...

I think mice and rats and hamsters and stuff are cute, but I hate it when they scurry around. I'm afraid that they'll crawl on me or something. xD

Some people loves to keep rodents at home. I like them but you should know how to maintain them as it is hard to let them go anywhere else.

I'm sorry, but I'm gonna have to say NO! I had a very bad experience with them when I was a kid. I grew up in Hawaii, and since there are no snakes in Hawaii... there are a lot of rats. Huge kitten sized rats. Every place that we lived in, harboured them. I'd hear them crawling around in the attic and sometimes when I wake up, I'd see them crawling away from my face. There was this one time when I was 7 years old, I was napping on the couch, and I awoke because I felt a big fat rat crawled up my leg and it ran across my body over my face. I could feel the rough fur, the shap claws, the long wrinkly tale, and the nastiness of the rat all over me. Just typing it out right now, is giving me the chills. I am literally shuddering right now. So from then on, I do not like anything that is in the rat family. All rodents remind me of rats. Now that I live in Florida, I don't see as many rats, but I do see a lot of squirrel, and that alone gives me the creeps. When I see them, I go the opposite direction, because they look too much like the rat that crawled over my body. Sighh......