National World Rat Day 2024

Reason to celebrate: April 4, 2024 is National World Rat Day.

Acquire two points directly promptly-- rodents aren't grimy, and James Cagney never said it anyway! These are merely two of the myths and mistaken beliefs that World Rat Day expects to dispel as it commemorates the joys of elegant rats.

Anyone that keeps rodents as pet dogs or friends is already in on the trick: these pets get along, dedicated, smart, and really endearing. Regrettably they have actually had a little bad press for many years, just what with the Black Death, Bubonic Plague and a many thousand Pacific isles which have actually had their indigenous wildlife munched down to ground level and past. Yet just what's a couple of environmental and social disasters in between close friends?

The moment you learn more about betray a one-to-one basis, after that all their finer qualities will come forward. Why not come by to your neighborhood World Rat Day event and discover simply how adorably adorable they really are?

World Rat Day Is For Rats!

April 4 is World Rat Day as declared by the World Rat Day website. In fact, there's even a book named after it. All pets have pros and cons in caring for them, and no pet is for everyone. But pet rats often face more gasps of shocked disbelief, disdain ...

April 4 is World Rat Day

April 4 is World Rat Day. In your homes there are various types of animals. Sometimes you don't know who they really are. You may have given a chance to them to live with you; for those who could win our hearts. As a result of that, we feed them, love ...

Pet Talk: Rats actually make good pets

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Albertans can now rat on rats by calling new vermin hotline

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BBC News Magazine

World Rat Day is a chance for rat owners to celebrate their pets, an opportunity they don't often get. "There is a stigma attached to owning a rat," says Stella Hulott, who runs the Kent-based charity and rat shelter, CavyRescue (which is staging a rat ...

April is the coolest month for holidays

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Poetry Emits Imagery Magic

World Rat Day: Poems about Real Holidays You've Never Heard Of, by J. Patrick Lewis, and painted from ink washes and drawings and then assembled digitally, is a compilation of poems about actual holidays celebrated around the world. We just missed ...

April 4, 2024 is also Walk to Work Day, Vitamin C Day, Deep Dish Pizza Day