My roof rats LOVE dark chocolate. Especially Walter! Look at how happy, playful and frisky he becomes when I give him some. He's playing with things like a little puppy!

And, guess what?  This video used to be on YouTube, but they deleted it today because, according to YouTube, I am harming or showing cruelty towards Walter.

But, guess what, YouTube: Chocolate is just as safe for Rats to eat as for Humans!  That's right: Theobromine, the thing in Chocolate which is bad for Cats and Dogs, has the same same dosage for rats and humans: the LD50 for both is 1,000 mg/Kg of body weight.  For Humans, that translates to an entire pound of pure chocolate (the super bitter 100% cocoa kind.)  Yeah, rats are smaller, but I doubt I could get any rat to happily eat the rat equivalent of a whole pound of bitter chocolate, and that's clearly not what Walter is doing in the video.

So, why did YouTube take down the video?  Because there are many, many ignorant people out there.  And, sometimes, ignorant people scream loudly until people either believe them, or give in to their stupid demands just to shut them up.  It just takes one person at YouTube to agree with them to take down your video, but once they do, they will never reverse their decision no matter what.  So, if you want to see Walter happily eating chocolate, you cannot see that on YouTube, sorry!

Rats LOVE eating chocolate! Look how happy and playful it makes them! And YouTube loves censoring these videos because they HATE happy rats! 😂