10 Awesome DIY Rat Toys to make with Toilet Paper Rolls!

[@Renniigaed]

These are wonderful! I need to start collecting toilet paper rolls before people throw them away XD

[@mercadeslauer8318]

You need WAY MORE than 8,000 subscribers. You deserve more like 2,000,000 subscribers. Ps. Your also like my favorite youtuber

[@ShadowTheRat]

Thanks you, you’re too sweet

[@carolinaferrer8457]

Mercades Lauer 5 months later she has almost 18,000!

[@rebeccahawkins8241]

same

[@rat5800]

Mercades Lauer yea

[@HeyItsCharlie]

She is really good, I’m gonna make some of these soon

[@Chaos_Rose]

I get my rats! I'm so happy!

[@johnernest2779]

Chaos Rose so happy for you! Enjoy and spoil them like crazy 😁

[@Chaos_Rose]

John Ernest They enjoy the babyfood on today. And they are sleeping yet.

[@johnernest2779]

Chaos Rose sleeping now but they will probably be up all night running on the wheel 😈little devils. I hope you have a nice weekend and enjoy your time with the new members of the family.!

[@ShadowTheRat]

CongRATs on your new fluffballs! :D

[@Chaos_Rose]

John Ernest I hope I can sleep this night.

[@marshm.1398]

I've been collecting empty paper tubes for a long time now, but I've only used them for a few of these things. This video helped me find new things to use them for!😊

[@ShadowTheRat]

Glad to hear! You can probably tell that I collected a few to many :P

[@mose1356]

Shadow The Rat I put a stuffed animal in my cage with my old one (he died from getting out of his tank while I was asleep and my dog ate him) if we took the stuffed animal he would be up all night if he didn't have it he was agressive to other rats we got him from a friend who couldn't take care of him and I'm looking forward to get a new one who started young I want a girl but I don't want her to be lonely is it ok to get another female with her or will they attack each other

[@rebeccahawkins8241]

your rat was in a tank?@@mose1356

[@snowyshiva]

@@mose1356 Rats should always be in pairs or groups, also they shouldn't be kept in tanks because they have very sensitive respiratory systems. I hope you have fun with your new girls!

[@youdroppedsomething4334]

MOØSE It isn’t “okay” it’s a must. Rats need to be in pairs/groups.Without a friend/friends they will get depressed. You should know these things considering you owned a rat. Leads me to think you didn’t do any research

[@cookiepegietherats2404]

1:08 ohhh! I do this all the time and my girls will love it!!! 😍 I don’t put treats in them but I’ll try it! Thanks! This video made my mind go even more creative then it normally is and I LOVE my girls! Thanks!

[@offline3401]

I'm getting two rats soon and i'm so excited! I'm planning on naming them Cappuccino and Mocha.

[@zee.chiaramonte09]

That so adorable! Mine are named Toast and Ozzy

[@ratluvr3641]

thats similar to what im naming my boys! their names are latte, mocha, and espresso!!

[@cookedricee]

Would just like to say my girls absolutely love the first one 😍

[@Dao_Tui]

Wonderful ideas! I also spotted some nice ones for my birds ^^ thanks!

[@Megan-sm6fx]

Wow. 8k! You're growing so quickly, congrats!

[@ShadowTheRat]

Thanks, everyones been so awesome and supportive! :)

[@lakesidestables58]

60k

[@catz9802]

I am getting rats for Christmas, so this will be useful for getting to know them.

[@catz9802]

I also watched all your training videos Shadow the Rat.

[@lamia_go]

thanks for the tutorial, that was incredibly helpful!! 💛

[@garyadamsgma1495]

Lots of TP rolls ! LOL :o

[@ShadowTheRat]

Yeah...been building this stash for way too long lol

[@olivefromredmorningcups7600]

Amazing ideas, thank you!

[@karlleonard9271]

invaluable diy! hope you get more likes!

[@Sunkensunn]

Can’t believe I just saw this! Absolutely going to be trying some of these with my girls

[@ShadowTheRat]

Awesome! Let me know if they like them!

[@julianjohanson247]

my two boys love these! i’ve been spoiling them even more during quarantine lol

[@thecriss-crosstribe769]

This is so cool! I'm definately going to make some of these for my mice, I think they would enjoy that too. Thanks for the good ideas! PS.: You are really good at explaining, even I get it! xD

[@ShadowTheRat]

I’m glad you enjoyed :)

[@doughbeee4221]

I have made some toilet paper toys for my rats but they were really simple, so thank you for these really interesting ideas!!!

[@ShadowTheRat]

Glad you liked it :)

[@Eirwen_]

im getting rats next month and bc i dont have much much money in general theses are going to be grat for my new babies

[@MyrtheDV]

Thank you! This is so cool!!! I'm always looking for new ways to spoil my rats :')

[@666enough]

Hi! Sorry for bothering again. But can you enable community contributions on your videos, so I can add subtitles for some of my non-English speaking friends. Thanks! (If you don’t like it, give us a sign at least, please.)

[@ShadowTheRat]

Sure! Not sure how to do that, but I’ll look it up right now.

[@ShadowTheRat]

Okay, I changed it and it gave me this link: kzbin.info_cs_panel?tab=2&c=UC6JLfKsNrSysIqZegQq0YgQ Thank you for being willing to add subtitles, that's great!

[@666enough]

Great job. By the way, while making subtitles I've realized that you have an amazing pronunciation!

[@leslieabla]

Yay!!!! I save toilet paper rolls!!! Cause I do the one where you cover it in paper and twist it!!!! I love this video!

[@savarnah8764]

I made heaps of these toys for my Pet Mouse and he absolutely loves them :)

[@renschuon4992]

So many of these would be good for cats or small dogs (those with strong digging or burrowing or catching the small thing Instincts like terriers or dachshund)

[@rebeccabond685]

i just made two puzzle toys with treats for my boys and they love them! Fab video

[@bookoome16]

I LOVE this video Thank you so much for making this. My rats will love these!!!

[@cindyjones1885]

Thank you so much for the ideas!! definitely going to save this video and make these toys when I have a bit of time!!!

[@johnernest2779]

Nice idea to keep them occupied for awhile

[@ShadowTheRat]

Haha, until they run off to make more trouble :P

[@belindarees]

Omg, with subtitles, the kleenex one said, treat crappers XD

[@Paige0246]

Great video Shadow! I wonder if my baby rats would like a ladder made out of TP rolls... they don't even like the honeycomb hammock we made for them so they probably won't! Hahah!

[@taylugreen]

That saved my Friday evening! Thank you for sharing, greetings from Germany!

[@ShadowTheRat]

Glad to hear you liked them! :)

[@TearsOfEternity]

I've had a go at making a few of these for my four girls. I've only just put them into their cage and they seem to be at least a little interested. Thanks for sharing! ^-^

[@AshleyakaLeopardgirl]

This is so helpful, thank you very much!

[@maryw.5779]

Thank you for sharing this with us. You're very clever, and definitely keep your rats entertained. I'm going to try some of these with my hamster. What type of treats are you using in the toys?

[@jetfairplay]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! My dogs chew up toilet paper so I can finally use them for my future pets!!! :D

[@kiabadooms3301]

Where did u get ur rat treats from? Please respond as I would love to know! As I have 6 male rats and I wud live to buy them those treats!

[@ratluvr3641]

i think they are using gerber puffs, but i could be wrong

[@celestialcrystalize8871]

I have videos of my 2 rats but i'm working on putting them back because my brother deleted my videos because of Coppa. Few days later, they fixed the issues on KZbin where i can able to put my videos back. I have 2 videos back on with my albino rat in. I will put my other rat (black and white) video back on soon. I also use toilet paper to make foraging toys for my rats, i have a tutorial video for that and i will put it back soon too. 🙂

[@myalawhorn3953]

omg i love these!!!!

[@venomoussnake059]

Those are some good idea you could make a video of the rats using them

[@ShadowTheRat]

Yeah, I didn't include any clips with this video (too long) but I did in my tissue box DIY video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKfYYWiQeMSqoJY

[@motz_stick]

These were all such great ideas! I was wondering if you come up with all the ideas or see them on websites or apps? Also what is your favorite rat website?

[@ShadowTheRat]

Thanks! Some of them come from other people’s videos (for example the first 3 treat kabobs were based on other DIY videos). Some of them are just things I made up on the spot (for example the large tunnel and flower treat forager). And some of them are based off previous rodent toys that I bought (such as the rope bridge and treat hanger). Website wise I have to say that I’m biased towards my own rat website :P (rattrix.weebly.com/ ) But for other rat websites I like there is rat forum for a great rat community (www.ratforum.com/ ), rat guide for health purposes ( ratguide.com/), and join rats for behavior/play purposes (www.joinrats.com ).

[@kimtaehyung6001]

Yeah you are good

[@zozo-9986]

I know this videos a bit old but I was wondering if I used some string like cotten string would it be safe the rats to chew it?

[@ShadowTheRat]

Yup, that would be fine.

[@zozo-9986]

Okiedokie thx

[@sadietaylor9125]

where do you get your treats from??

[@Eternatease]

And you could make a bucket for them with it to pull up in training ☺

[@ShadowTheRat]

True! I thought about including training toys in this DIY, but if I included one then I'd probably end up make all of all just training props :P

[@addisonhock3704]

I haven't gotten them treats yet 😭

[@gilbertberger7234]

I tried the first diy toy with my mice and in retrospect it was likely too big for them. Though I think they managed to get the treats out but didn't play with it. Not that I noticed anyway. I also tried the one where you twist tissues around the tube, they did get to the treats though I'm not sure if they played it it or not. Something I noticed in the vid is once or twice for each diy toy you made after the box fold one is white orbs floating around. I don't know if you believe in that sort of thing, but the orbs moved around like a rat playing would. Except for the first one that seemed to be moving at a casual pace towards your lap. The rest, like I said, seemed like they were at play.

[@ShadowTheRat]

To be fair, my rats mainly go for the treats and ignore the toy until they feel like stashing it :P

[@gilbertberger7234]

Lol. Makes sense.

[@pleasure95]

Sorry, i really like your videos. It's just I don't understand how to insert the third or fourth piece on the first one as your hand was in the way. What so you do?

[@ShadowTheRat]

Push it through the small opening between the other pieces - if need be push them aside some. It should be a really snug fit, so that the treats don't fall out once you insert them.

[@regardtdressel5958]

Awesome

[@ShadowTheRat]

Thanks :)

[@arsonchild47]

This is really helpful! I know I'm late to the video, but is any type of string okay to use for rats?

[@zeldalirbank5203]

im pretty sure you want to check and make sure that it doesn't contain plastic, as some ropes/strings do. other than that, I think so.

[@arsonchild47]

@@zeldalirbank5203 Alright, thank you!

[@zeldalirbank5203]

@@arsonchild47 ofc, just want to make sure that people's rats are safe!

[@arsonchild47]

@@zeldalirbank5203 Ofc! My rats thank you!

[@zeldalirbank5203]

@@arsonchild47 :D

[@hanna7074]

You can use these ideas for hamsters too! ☺️💗

[@dani-bb5vb]

This helped ALOT for my rats!! Thank you!!

[@tianaskyelegg6201]

I used shoelaces for the bridge, is that okay?

[@ivhigo]

Tiana Skye Legg awesome!

[@rebeccahawkins8241]

my fav was the bridge

[@makeuplover5462]

What are those treats you use throughout this video?

[@elise3586]

I think it was cereal or maybe those gerber baby puffs

[@nickabruzzese6725]

hey love your content and you inspired me to get a rat please show me how to let you review my cage

[@ShadowTheRat]

If you send me a picture on Facebook (like KZbin my page there is called Shadow the Rat) I can tell you how it looks. As a side note if you only have one ratty I’d highly recommend looking into getting them a same sex buddy - they really are social little creatures and benefit greatly from living with other rats!

[@nickabruzzese6725]

@@ShadowTheRat will it change the rats personality that i have already and i am creating a website for rat products and cuddle buddys so i will let you know what the website is and yeah ill send you a pic tmr thank you

[@nickabruzzese6725]

@@ShadowTheRat i got another one and a bigger cage so i am getting 2 more today so i will have 4 in total. the black and white one is named ellie the other black and white one is cookie. then the ones i am getting today will be salt for the white one and pepper for the black one. please do a videon on how to teach the mail and the money retriver

[@SuperSyd100]

I love your videos, they've been so helpful as I've been trying to prepare for having some rats of my own! Quick question though, what would you say the daily treat allotment is? I don't want to overfeed or anything like that and I know that they have can have a sweet tooth

[@ShadowTheRat]

Thank you! Daily treat allotment would vary depending on your rats age and what treat your using. For things like meat baby food you want to stick to 1-3 times a week with older rats, just because too much protein can cause skin and kidney issues in rats over 6 months. For treats like Cheerios and Gerber puffs, I usually take a handful or so and break them into 2-4 pieces each. Then that's what I use for training. I can't say what the amount is, but if your free-feeding your rats good lab blocks and only giving treats at training time, they shouldn't be over-eating.

[@maryw.5779]

@@ShadowTheRat I think you're going to send me to hamster sites. I give Sweetie freeze-dried insects as part of her breakfast and nighttime snack, and keep her seed mix and lab blocks in her cage to eat when she wants. When the SPCA gave her to me, they only knew she was an adult. She was, and still is, a big girl. I don't want to ruin her health by giving in to her begging.

[@nickierebecca5375]

Hi! is it possible to tell me what the hooks are called you used for the bridge? :3 Really nice ideas with almost just toiletpaper rolls, knew I could use them for something! :D

[@ShadowTheRat]

I'm not sure, I got them from these things called "mini bungie cords" that i used to use to hang stuff up and once the bungie cords broke I'd take the 2 hooks off to reuse and trash the broken elastic part.

[@AnicaNorman]

what do you call those hooks cant find them anyware

[@ShadowTheRat]

Honestly I'm not sure, I used to buy mini bungy cords in bulk to hang things in my rats cage and they all come with these tiny metal hooks on both end. So when the cord got chewed, I saved the metal hooks and reused them.

[@antivaxxnugs7859]

I tried to make the last one, it went well, I put it in the cage, my rat Husky is more interested in the tissue for bedding then the actual treats

[@Orcaplanet]

What kind of the treats are the stars? :)

[@ShadowTheRat]

Those are Gerber puffs!

[@kmarie-cq9on]

Orcaplanet yess I use them too, my rats love them!

[@edgyveggie2568]

its got good ideas but your hands block most of the instructions and you should have specified tht there was gonna be a box at the bottom at around 13:00

[@Korat131]

Sorry for such a dumb question, probably u already answered it many times or even u made a video about it, but I couldn't find it so I rather ask. What treats are u using, I'm asking about these white stars.

[@ShadowTheRat]

Those are Gerber puffs (baby food :P) For other treats and treat ideas I have them all listed on my website: rattrix.weebly.com/treats.html

[@Korat131]

Shadow The Rat Thank you!

[@skyfitzpatrick4994]

Clownie 2 baby grub

[@twiganimations6877]

the bridge did not work when ever i tied it to the cage it would fall out and i tied it super well and when it did not come off it would just go sideways >:(

[@ShadowTheRat]

You have to use the right string and have to secure it on all 4 sides with a small dip in the middle. Same goes for store-bought pet bridges - they can be finicky and need to be balanced right to work.

[@Rebnirak187]

I have safed 10 or more paper rolls...

[@poisonivy6979]

OOOOOOOK

[@finnleytheweirdo9926]

I hate to be rude and random but, how old are you? It is ok if you don't want to answer for privacy or personal reasons. The reason for my question is because... I dont know actually sorry. P.S: your my favorite KZbinr 💚

[@АкАтАвА]

Это всё разгрызается за 5секунд. Надо брать тубы из крайне плотного картона из-под проданных мотков клеёнки и обоев в хозмаге.

[@chano6948]

Theres orbs all I your room

[@jiashanuhai3222]

My rats give me signs there happy but there still acting scared of me and don't want to play or try to trust me a little

[@CrouchingGirlfriend]

It takes time, give them lots of hand treats

[@chano6948]

You have gosts in your house

[@alihussain4727]

U might need an adult for cutting . Do it safely

[@kaysheridan2513]

is it just me or did she not explain the first one well, and I can't even see it either. Nevermind the entire video was very confusing because you can barely see anything smh

[@rattoota]

Yeah i seriously cant figure it out

[@Valdezcomedy]

So your just gunna make them and not show us how their used?