Pet mice are entertaining to watch, are easy to care for, and make very few demands on their owners. They are a bit skittish and harder to h...

There is a range of small rodents commonly kept as pets. Some are fairly easy to tame and enjoy human interaction while others are more timi...

Rats are intelligent and social animals that can make wonderful pets. They are also easily tamed, making rats especially great for someone w...

Chinchillas may be one of the softest, cutest rodents on the planet. When you finally decide to get a plush chinchilla—you have a big decisi...

Degus are small, burrowing rodents native to Chile that make great pets. In the wild, they live in communities of up to 100, much like prair...

Cats are good at so many thing — napping, chasing laser pointer dots around the room, napping, eating, and napping, just to name a few — but...

Recently, wildlife photography aficionado Simon Dell stumbled upon the family of a cute mouse running around his garden. Instead of reachi...

A local Indian bank got a series of complaints about one of its ATMs. The cause of its sudden malfunction is quite unsettling. Just thin...

Police escorted a woman off a plane Tuesday after she brought an unexpected furry friend on a Frontier Airlines flight from Orlando to Cle...

MOROGORO, Tanzania — The grass is still damp with dew as the sun begins to glint over the Uluguru Mountains. It’s only 7 a.m. in Morogoro,...

Coppabella, Australia - An Australian man summoned to his neighbor's kitchen to "see something cool" captured footage of a m...

A Swedish family actually lived what is probably many people’s worst nightmare after they discovered that a 15-inch monster rat had chewe...

Finding an eight-stone rodent on the couch would see most people racing for the phone to dial pest control. But it's a daily occurre...

While they are extraordinary animals and are very tame, there are many drawbacks to keep a capybara as a pet. First and foremost, in som...

There are very few dangers of keeping pet rats, but only if those rats are domesticated and kept in cages. Rats that have ever been wild m...

Guinea pigs are small members of the rodent family native to South America, but they have been domesticated for several hundred years. T...

Talk about a rodent of unusual size. The biggest rodent to ever stalk the Earth lived about 3 million years ago in what is now South Afr...

Bainoa, Cuba (AP) — Some people keep guinea pigs or hamsters as pets. But in Cuba, where a larger, more exotic rodent runs wild, Ana Ped...

The Broadway cast was less than thrilled when it found out who one of their fellow performers would be. It made them squeamish — not becau...

Everyone who's ever used a New York City subway knows that they're teeming with rats, and that said rats are, almost by definition...