Cause disgust and the real fear in many people of a rat. However there are also fans of these clever rodents. Often future owners want to buy to themselves a decorative rat of the defined sex.
Instruction
1. Pick up the rat who was pleasant to you and turn her on a back. Attentively examine its back part around a tail. If the rodent already reached 4 weeks age, then you will be able to make out rather large testicles provided that you hold a male in hand. If cubs of rats still absolutely small are also not completely covered with wool, you will not notice testicles at males. However attentively examine a back part of a rat. Between an anus and a genital the males have two small dark specks.
2. Carefully feel a rat around testicles if they are not looked through. If you feel them to the touch, before you "boy".
3. To be fully confident that you chose an animal of the necessary floor pay attention to distance between a genital and an anus. At a male it is more, than at a female. Therefore pick up several rodents and compare this distance.
4. Pay attention to the sizes and mobility of adult rats. Females usually a little more small than males and at the same time more active.
5. Feel rats to the touch. Softer, fluffy fur characterizes a female of a decorative rodent.
6. Look for small nipples on a paunch of a rat. They are located in two ranks on a tummy of a female.