<p>random, but I really need an answer.
I love my rat;he's my best friend(not kidding)
I cannot leave him.
Can I take him in his cage into a vassar dorm?</p>
<p>haha:)</p>
<p>I recall reading somewhere that we are only allowed to bring pet fish. :(</p>
<p>FuturDoc12 - According to the Office of Residential Life web page, pets are prohibited except those kept in a cage, aquarium, or terrarium. Also, fur bearing or dander producing pets are prohibited in the Wellness corridors. </p>
<p>My son had his king snake (in a terrarium) in his room during the first half of freshman year. He brought her home at Xmas break because she wasn’t doing well there. She was getting too much attention, plus he found it hard to get to the pet store to buy her food (frozen mice). He asked his roommate before he brought her and he had no problem with it, though some roommates might object.</p>
<p>Only if the rat can be verified to not be an Animagus.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if they’re allowed, but ask your roommate before bringing a pet rat to the dorms. (If that’s applicable.)</p>
<p>My daughter had five – that’s right – five pet rats in her dorm room last year, and as long as they were kept in a cage, that was ok with the university housing office. She’s not at Vassar, however, and had a single room. She loves them the same way you do and they were a huge hit on her floor – other dorm residents were constantly stopping by to take them out, play with them, feed them treats, etc. They do make wonderful pets. Of course, my daughter is pre-vet, so she would have a zoo in her dorm room if they let her . . .</p>
<p>I am pretty sure my kids would have taken issue with rodents as pets in their dorm room…</p>
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<p>LMAO! And how would you verify that, hmmm?</p>
<p>It’s weird…I was just wondering about the policy on keeping pets in dorms. I have a pet hamster, and I can’t bear to leave her behind when I go to college. My dad says he doesn’t see why I wouldn’t be able to keep her, but then again he never went to college. :</p>
<p>My D, a Junior, informs me that she has seen hamsters so thinks they are allowed.</p>
<p>As mentioned, only fish are allowed on wellness corridors.
<a href=“Office of Residential Life – Vassar College”>Office of Residential Life – Vassar College;
<p>otherwise if it is in a cage it is fine.
<a href=“Office of Residential Life – Vassar College”>Office of Residential Life – Vassar College;
<p>As a parent, I suggest you just call Residential Life and ask them. Never too soon to learn how to be nice to the housing office, which is really very good at their job from my parental point of view. I remember a Freshmen Handbook that might cover this in more detail.</p>
<p>Good luck</p>
<p>pets that can be kept in cages: rats, hamsters, fish, spiders etc. can be brought to vassar. </p>
<p>you have to remember though that even a small pet is a lot of responsibility and money and that a college campus (parties in the dorms where cages could get knocked over…chances for the animal to get out and run all over the dorm) may not be the best environment for them.</p>
<p>do you really want to have to schedule your classes around feeding your pet??</p>
<p>I’m really responsible. I don’t have many friends. I don’t party or drink. I don’t think I’m going to have that much of a problem of taking care of my “only” friend, Squeakers the 2nd. Also, Can I live with my mom during college or is it REQUIRED that I live on-campus??</p>
<p>Sorry this reply is late, I happened to read it while looking for pet policy information.</p>
<p>Futurdoc12, your post makes you sound really emo. Certainly if your pet is your only friend being sure that you will be able to live with him at college is important. You might be interested to know that if you come to Vassar, you will definitely not be the only animal lover there. Today Dean Roellke sent out two all-campus E-mails because two of his dogs are missing from his on-campus residence. </p>
<p>To answer your final question, Students must live-on campus unless they are given permission to live off-campus by res life (source: [Vassar</a> College || Tuition and Fees](<a href=“http://admissions.vassar.edu/finaid_tuition.html]Vassar”>http://admissions.vassar.edu/finaid_tuition.html) ) Although I am unaware specifically what rationale res life uses to grant permission to live off-campus, generally they look at things like would living on-campus create an undue hardship. For example, if a student had a documented disability and their doctor felt that living off-campus would be best, that could be accepted as a valid reason. Another would be a the student’s family lived in Poughkeepsie and the student were responsible for caring for a family member or maintaining a family business or something like that. </p>
<p>Because the college relies on on-campus housing as a source of revenue, and Vassar feels strongly that there is more to a Vassar education than just attending classes, I doubt that they would accept a student’s desire to avoid the dorm living arrangement (having roommates, eating in the ACDC, etc.) or an unwillingness to adhere to dorm rules (wanting to have uncaged pets) as valid reasons for granting permission to live off-campus. </p>
<p>Since being able to live with Squeakers the Second is very important to you, I would contact res life and explain your desire to keep him with you and see what they suggest. Please post an update, I am curious to read what you find out.</p>
<p>rat…u brought up my bad memory when I had dinner in a restaurant and a rat was running across my feet…</p>
<p>aw, how sweet. & slightly creepy.</p>
<p>Lmao, Animagus. Now where’s my Time Turner so I can take Beginning Jazz and Intro to Theatre-making next fall?</p>
<p>As long as you’re not in wellness a you are certainly allowed to have a rat in your dorm room. But please, please contact your roommate/s about it before you show up on campus with a pet…I know more than one pair of roommates who ended up moving apart because of pet-conflict.</p>
<p>i’m so happy u made this post i have a hairless rat i couldnt live without. and they dint have to worry about dander becasue she is hairless and my sister would be in my dorm room and shes ok with it.</p>