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Update: We are now the proud owners of two female rats: Marsha and Gollum (I let my children pick the names). We bought a 20 gallom aquarium to house them. Ross, I wish I had read your post before we bought them. We bought them from a pet store, and they are indeed very shy and skittish...

My daughter LOVES racoons. When staying at our aunt's place, a racoon would come around evey night and we would go out and feed it (it was very tame). I'm not sure it would be a great idea to get her a badger to cuddle, however.

John, you are correct about Scabbers, but she seems much more fixated on the biting than the whole evil thing. It also doesn't help that in her favorite HBO cartoon (Country Mouse/City Mouse), the mice are always the overly intelligent good guys and the rat is the bungling bad guy. At...

I asked a few people at lunch this same question and they also all responded that a rat was best. That makes it unanimous. Now I have to try to convince my 5 year old that she doesn't want a mouse after all. Thanks for the help so far!

Thanks for the great advice so far - keep it coming! I am aware that they are all nocturnal, but my daughter is a VERY heavy sleeper so that shouldn't be much of an issue. My daughter is also very gentle and will likely be too afraid to handle the rodents much, so I suspect that they will be...

Long story short, I promised my five year old girl that I would buy her a pet mouse, hamster, or rat. She is heavily leaning towards the mouse, but may still be swayed. Do any of you know the pros/cons for each type of rodent? Also, do you have any cage recomendations or any other advice...