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Pet Rats. 🐁 This is a community for our little pocket puppies! We will occasionally accept wild rat posts, but this is mainly a place to celebrate our pets! We love art, stories, videos, and photos of our potato bros! 🐁 Sub icon and banner by u/Leoh_Waffles (@heart rat paradise on IG) Founded 2008 · 891.3K members

893.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 41.9K upvotes, which works out to 47 per 1,000 members.

47peak upvotes per 1,000 members
893.7Kmembers
41.9Kbest post
1.1Kmost comments
472posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

35% 27% 26%
Image 35% Video 27% Gallery 26% Text 7% Question 3% Link 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

CUTENESS 187 Questions/HELP 97 MEME 38 DISCUSSION 16 ART 15 Cage Setup 14 RIP 12 BAWLS? 11 INFORMATION 10 EMERGENCY 9

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

My most playful rat 🀩

↑ 41.9K πŸ’¬ 447 video 2025

Can anyone tell me why he’s doing this???

↑ 41.2K πŸ’¬ 1.1K video 2024

How could you papa?

↑ 38.4K πŸ’¬ 367 image 2025

the face of a man who bit the vet tech

↑ 28.8K πŸ’¬ 315 image 2024

Swipe and guess which rat got into my butter chicken…

↑ 27.7K πŸ’¬ 416 gallery 2025

My boyfriend discovered that snap filters work on rats

↑ 24.5K πŸ’¬ 186 gallery 2025

why is he so perfect

↑ 23.9K πŸ’¬ 367 video 2025

my girl likes being shaken and thrown

↑ 22.6K πŸ’¬ 413 video 2025

I drew this comic based on my girlfriend and her son

↑ 22.4K πŸ’¬ 136 image 2025

Rat steals MY oatmeal cookie, struts away seemingly proud of his thievery.

↑ 20.3K πŸ’¬ 221 video 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/RATS, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/RATS?
r/RATS ("Pet Rats") describes itself this way: 🐁 This is a community for our little pocket puppies! We will occasionally accept wild rat posts, but this is mainly a place to celebrate our pets! We love art, stories, videos, and photos of our potato bros! 🐁 Sub icon and banner by u/Leoh_Waffles (@heart rat paradise on IG). It was founded in 2008 and has 891.3K members.
How many members does r/RATS have?
r/RATS has about 893.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 472 of its posts; the biggest reached 41.9K upvotes, which is 47 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/RATS?
"My most playful rat 🀩" reached 41.9K upvotes and 447 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/RATS.
What subreddits are similar to r/RATS?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology, r/illinois.
What kind of posts do best on r/RATS?
Of the posts we hold, 35% are image posts and 27% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/RATS?
Across 472 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 20:00 UTC (22.3K avg upvotes), Friday at 16:00 UTC (16.2K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 21:00 UTC (16K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/RATS?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/RATS has 17.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 120 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/RATS, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.