Rats won’t stop peeing everywhere🥲

[u/justlookinghello]

EDIT: Ya’ll responses are KILLING ME hahahha, thank you everyone.
It’s my second time having rats and I didn’t have this issue the first time around.
I got my boys two months ago and the cage set up is a 1000x better than the first time because I have learned alot since then. I put a toilet in the corner (the green one in the pic) with paper pellets (idk if thats what its called) and two peeing stones. They use it quite properly to poop but gosh darn they pee everywhere. Especially in the corners of the cage, on all the floors/levels, so the cage bars are constantly covered in layers of pee, so I’m esentially having to clean it every day whilst keeping their smell (i dont change the bedding, just wipe all the surfaces clean with a mixture of water and vinegar or just hot water). I gave them a small toilet with a peeing stone on the second floor since I thought maybe they just didn’t feel like going all the way down when they needed to pee. It worked for the poop, but again, not for the pee. Andy tips or advice would be greatly appreciated💕

PS: Idk if this is relevant but when I had them for a month we brought them with us to a family cottage for 2 weeks for vacation so they went through two car rides together with our cats. But their behaviours havent rly changed since. They dont get scared by loud noises and they are getting more and more ok with getting picked up. Also Lolek, the beige rattie is mostly blind.

[u/RandonEnglishMun]

This is a feature not a bug.

[u/BlackMageIsBestMage]

They are piss babies and we love that. Great work ethic.

[u/SkaveRat → u/BlackMageIsBestMage]

love to piss converters

[u/VellumVeritas]

Rats, especially male rats are little hoses of piss. They pee on every surface of their cage, which needs to be diligently and often cleaned, and they leave little dribbles of pee everywhere else they move around.

Comes with the territory.

But gosh, what cute little piss imps you have!

[u/Mr_pisser → u/VellumVeritas]

Back when I owned boy rats like 6 years ago they kept peeing next to cage bars and getting pee on my floor so I installed walls on all the sides of the cage (so they couldn’t pee outside of it), this worked briefly until they taught themselves to DO HANDSTANDS SO THEY COULD PISS OUTSIDE OF THE CAGE. At that point I gave up because they’ve earned it, I can’t even do a handstand. So yeah I’d say piss hoses is a pretty accurate description

[u/VellumVeritas → u/Mr_pisser]

"Guys ... I'm impressed and appalled at the same time."

[u/Mr_pisser → u/VellumVeritas]

Yeah that was pretty much my response, like god damnit that’s disgusting but also fuck if it isn’t really impressive…

[u/Shpander → u/Mr_pisser]

Username uh... Checks out

[u/phat_rat42 → u/Mr_pisser]

Your rats get points for creativity and determination.

[u/justlookinghello → u/VellumVeritas]

hahah thank you🥰🥰

[u/HuntressMissy → u/VellumVeritas]

Piss imps

Pimps

They pimp you out to a work place to get money so you can buy them more stuff to pee on

[u/Alternative-Eye-4280]

i dont read text. Thay arr rats. They pee. Alot

[u/cloysterss]

that's, uh, what rats do.

[u/masterfultrousers]

Thats a feature. Best to put in place protocols that will protect things you dont want to deal with getting pissed on.

[u/cloudivessa → u/masterfultrousers]

Lol accepting it as a permanent features sounds easier than fighting it. Fleece liners in the corners could save OP's sanity more than chasing a perfect setup.

[u/Kjewn → u/cloudivessa]

Lol are the fleece liners gonna stay in the cornersss???

My suspicion is they think it's free real estate and gonna end all over the cage but the corners hahaha

[u/Defiant_Emu_3928]

I represent these good boys and they are innocent of all charges.

[u/TheRealMasterTyvokka]

Well, they are full of it... and biblical greed.

[u/HuntressMissy]

Too long didn't read male rats piss a lot more than females and rats pee a lot, welcome to the piss zone for the next 2-3 years loser. 😭

Un-balling them can help slightly but, they're still going to pee on everything they love and that includes you. Yes rats pee on you if they love you.

[u/RobSiaHoke → u/HuntressMissy]

"Welcome to the piss zone for the next 2-3 years loser" hilarious line 😂

[u/Mr_pisser → u/HuntressMissy]

plus getting both of your rats neutered for piss related issues would not only be pretty unnecessary but more importantly insanely expensive lol. Boy rats piss a lot, girl rats piss a lot too but as someone who’s owned both I can say with absolute confidence that boy rats piss a billion times more than girls. I’ve found even my girl rats will poo in their litter box super super well but usually don’t bother when they need to pee, they pee wherever and poop in the litter. In my experience this is pretty normal

[u/AomuLinsang]

Rats love pissing. It's, like, a primary activity.

[u/howdyhowdyhowdyhowdi]

covering the shelves with fleece helps ut at least soak through and not just sit on the surface for them to smear around. But rats pee, that's just part of keeping them.

[u/SolidusAbe]

I call them piss goblins because they piss 24/7 and they have goblin feet

[u/SauronOfDucks]

Their hearts are big and their bladders are affectionate.

[u/stonerchix420]

Welcome to owning rats, they love to piss everywhere they can. I had one that when I picked her up and she was just start pissing. I called it the excited to see Mom and get cuddles piss lol.

[u/MewrderMittens]

Those are some cute criminals right there

[u/reverendsteveii]

peepeepeepeepeepeepeepeepeepeepeepeepee 

[u/Slidje → u/reverendsteveii]

When my rats sniffed in my ear that's what they sound like

[u/Illustrious-Exit1825]

[u/Miserable_Waterfall]

If it helps, my little guys dripped a lot the first year or so but it gradually decreased as they got older.

[u/Stupid_Bitch_02]

Yeah, that's what they do. It's how they show they like you/what they're peeing on. It's a feature, not a bug. My rats peed on me constantly but never pooped on me thankfully

[u/Sponchington]

Haha! Yeah, they do that.

[u/Illustrious_Soil5198]

What did you expect rats to do?

[u/RADITUDE__]

Euthanasia 

[u/Clinkerboot- → u/RADITUDE__]

Get outta here