https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/clinical-questions/22053/feeding-pet-rats Hi all. I&#39;ve recently been pondering what to recommend clients feed their pet rats. Most of my clients feed commercial packaged processed food from the pet shop, or fairly ridiculous diets based on internet findings. Most of these internet diets includeen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/132570?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:21:53 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:fd9dc768-4990-422a-b298-3e5b079c4e18Martin Atkinson<p>Rats are omnivores like pigs and erm... yes us. So anything goes so long as it is balanced. However I can&#39;t see what the issue is for convenience giving them commercially available rat food and some table scraps. Given that a high proportion of humans eat a crap diet and are obese and unhealthy telling them to feed their rats the same as they eat might be counter-productive. <img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/emoticons/v2/devil.png" alt="Mischievous" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/132562?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 31 Mar 2015 01:30:02 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:ecce74a3-2b66-4707-b2d4-301b7186498aDavid Mills<p>I&#39;ve no idea whether this is still valid, but a lecturer at college told us that rats have co-evolved with man to eat whatever the latter throw away - therefore table scraps and human food (assuming clients have a balanced diet) are the best.&nbsp;</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>