{"id":68975,"date":"2022-04-22T03:55:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T03:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/can-you-bathe-rats-in-water\/"},"modified":"2022-04-22T03:55:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T03:55:30","slug":"can-you-bathe-rats-in-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/can-you-bathe-rats-in-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you bathe rats in water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Can you bathe rats in water?<\/h2>\n<p>When giving your pet rat a bath, <b>simply throwing them into the bathtub or dumping water on them isn&#8217;t going to work. Rats are like catsthey don&#8217;t naturally like water (although every rat is different). Bathing your rat will go over much more smoothly if you first introduce your rat to water slowly and gradually.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>How often should I bathe a rat?<\/h2>\n<p>Unless your rat gets dirty somehow, bathing it only on occasion will make it smell less. When bathed, animals lose some of the natural oils secreted by their body that protect them from the elements. The animal will reproduce any lost oils, which will be of a stronger smell. Bathe your rat <b>no more than once a month<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you bathe rats in water? When giving your pet rat a bath, simply throwing them into the bathtub or dumping water on them isn&#8217;t going to work. Rats are like catsthey don&#8217;t naturally like water (although every rat is different). Bathing your rat will go over much more smoothly if you first introduce your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}