The black line rat is not easy to keep, and it is not recommended for everyone to keep it. Because it will steal the seedlings, seeds, fruits and melons, fruits and vegetables of various crops. It will also harm various crops such as peanuts and sweet potatoes.

Often fleeing into the fields, destroying crops. At the same time, they will often move indoors, and the spread of diseases is also very large, as many as 17 kinds.