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Pets in Dorms
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so, has anyone here ever snuck a pet into dorms? Or gotten permission to have them? I have 2 pet rats, they are currently living at my parents house, but I want to bring them to college with me next year. I've been living in freshman housing this year, where the RAs and people are around frequently, but next year I am thinking of living in the upperclassman housing [if not off campus] which is a lot more secluded and from what I've heard RAs don't go inside... so yeah. has anyone gotten away with sneaking a pet inside? My rats are quiet, clean, and stay in their cage. I'm planning on living with friends, and they are fine with the idea of me having my pets. I just am worried what the consequences would be if I were caught with them in my home... so, any experiences? advice? thank you!!

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I'm sure you can. My boyfriend lives on university housing, keeps pet snakes and a cat. No one ever looks in.

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Quote: from james07 at 2:28 am on Mar. 2, 2007

wow...you have pets that live their lives in cages.thats quit humaine of you.lets put you in a cage and see how you like it.ya rat !

well where the hell do you expect them to live?
oh i'm sorry. in the bed or the wardrobe might be more appropriate.

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Quote: from james07 at 2:35 am on Mar. 2, 2007

animals do NOT deserve to live in damn cages.they would be better off dead.thats not how a animal is suppose to live.its cruel.

so lets all let our animals roam free and take over the streets!
kick your dogs and cats out of your houses! it's cruel to let them sit by the nice warm fire and give them food! :D
i think i will go out now and kick my horse out of his field, take off his rug and let him go

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they have a huge cage [3 stories, and very wide]. There's 2 of them so they have constant companionship. they have the safest kind of bedding in their cage, are given all sorts of treats that supplement their diets, and they have plenty of toys as well as indoor shelters in their cage. Also, they get taken out of their cage and played with quite a bit. Sure, it's not a really natural habitat, but they were bred as pets, and I am trying to give them the most pleasant habitat as possible. I think it is humane, they are healthy and seem happy. They are very friendly little creatures! :)

[and I pretty much do live in a cage, my room is like a box. My rats have more space to move around in in their cage then I do in my room!]


and thanks Gin, that's good to know! :)


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alot of people freak out when you mention the word "rat".i have cats as pets and my asshole rude bitch low life next door neighbor said im strange cause i have 7 cats.i told her to mind her own damn business.im a animal activist & i rescued 4 of my cats from human abuse.

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Yeah, a lot of my friends don't like rats either.. though, a lot of them have changed their minds after meeting mine! Rats just have such negative stereotypes surrounding them, it's sad. They are really great animals. I'm lucky to have met friends here at college who would want to move in with me and also love rats, so they wouldn't mind the rats here at all! If anyone on campus had a problem with my rats.. well, they just could not come over to my place, and I wouldn't care.

7 cats, that's very cool! And good for you for rescuing some. I'm not an active animal activist, but I'm a strict vegetarian working on transitioning into veganism. I would love to be involved with more animal rights activities, I'm volunteering at a vegetarian event in my area in a few weeks, but aside from that, I guess I'm not doing a lot of community activism. But, I'm definitely all for animal rights.

I just don't think it's wrong to have animals in cages, as long as they are well cared for.

The idea of keeping animals as pets is kind of weird, but now so many animals were bred for that reason, they couldn't really survive in the wild if they were just let free. I don't see any harm in keeping pets or caged animals, but they do need to be cared for and I try to care for my animals as best as I possibly can.


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Quote: from Gin at 5:27 am on Mar. 2, 2007

I'm sure you can. My boyfriend lives on university housing, keeps pet snakes and a cat. No one ever looks in.

That's very, very unusual.  I have a friend who got kicked out of her university housing because she had two pet rats there.  I seriously wouldn't recommend taking the chance.

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xD My neighbours think I'm strange because I have a pet fennec fox. And 2 cats and 2 dogs, and a few horses.
But what do they know (:

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Quote: from MoonlitEden at 2:55 am on Mar. 2, 2007

Quote: from Gin at 5:27 am on Mar. 2, 2007

I'm sure you can. My boyfriend lives on university housing, keeps pet snakes and a cat. No one ever looks in.

That's very, very unusual.  I have a friend who got kicked out of her university housing because she had two pet rats there.  I seriously wouldn't recommend taking the chance.


Probably not. The only reason he can get away with it is because he's in individual apartment housing at the univ, not dorms.

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i wish i had no neighbors.they need to just mind their own beeswax.i have had a few words with my punk neighors and one time their car battery was dead and they came knocking on my door at 7 am wanting a battery jump.i answered the door & yelled "what do you want " and she told me & i just closed my door & went back to bed.needless to say we dont talk.its been since last summer.i just want to be left the fuck alone.

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Quote: from MoonlitEden at 2:55 am on Mar. 2, 2007

Quote: from Gin at 5:27 am on Mar. 2, 2007

I'm sure you can. My boyfriend lives on university housing, keeps pet snakes and a cat. No one ever looks in.

That's very, very unusual.  I have a friend who got kicked out of her university housing because she had two pet rats there.  I seriously wouldn't recommend taking the chance.


wait.. so when she was caught, what happened to her rats? If I took the chance, then got kicked out, w/e. I could find an apartment off campus. But I would not want to risk the chance of having my pets taken from me. Did that happen, or was she able to keep her pets and move out?

and the upperclassmen housing I'm thinking of moving into are those individual apartments on my campus!


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