I LOVE me some rodents, lil sweethearts. I've owned rats in the past and not to disrespect my current mice, but; rats are nicer lmao. But I can't choose! What about you? ;;
If I had to pick, it would be mice. I don't really care for rodents much in general though. That even includes things like gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs, etc. It's not that I'm scared of them, I just don't really find them cute or interesting. They also poop what feels like 500 times a day. You can't play with them without getting pooped on because they poop so often. I didn't like playing with the gerbils we had as pets when I was a kid because of that.
We didn't really have gerbils very long though. We had cats and one of the cats was super smart. He figured out how to get the lid off of the gerbil cage when we were asleep and, well... Suddenly there were no more gerbils, he was fat and happy, and later threw up a big wad of gerbil fur. Kinda obvious what happened.
i wouldn't want either as pets but i've interacted w pet rats and they're amazing i love them lol. my biology teacher has pet rats in her classroom and my seat was the closest to them.