My wife had a half dozen of them when we got married.... They bred like rabbits. The time involved with them eventually became the deciding factor, and we got rid of them. They're cool for a mammal pet, but with the cuddling they need (bonding, I think is what they call it), as well as the varied diet, it got to the point that the only time we had for them was just enough time to make their daily food and clean them out every so often. We eventually traded them for a Bengal cat. Good trade, I think, for what we wanted in a pet.