How the pet rat will behave if there are two dogs at home?

asperae: How the pet rat will behave if there are two dogs at home?
I have two Irish setters and am now thinking of buying a pet rat. I wonder how the dogs might react and weather they will hunt the rat.

Answers and Views:

Answer by Dania
well if you put her in a cage they cant reach her.

Answer by fuji
they’ll eat it

Answer by Cameron_xxoo
If you dont show the rat to them, they will never show it exists. but, irish settlers are hunter dogs, they might kill your pretty rat!

Answer by Annie
Dogs can and will climb and jump very high to get a prey animal (rat, hamster, bird) in a cage. It is often their nature, not their fault, per se.

Please don’t take chances. One of my friends (after a terrible experience for her daughter where their hamster’s cage was pulled of a dresser and the hamster eaten) rigged up a pully system from the ceiling where they hang the new hamster’s cage from the ceiling when they are not playing with her. They simply let the cage down for play time and feeding, and then pully her back up!

Please don’t trust dogs with prey animals, while you may have many times where all is well, it’s the one time when things are not well that will stay with you forever.