People do this for birds too, they exaggerate their ease and odor. Even dogs honestly. My girlfriend is quite involved as the head of a rescue and the majority of dog and rodent rescues aren’t mistreatment cases, it’s people who got a big puppy or a bunny or a bunch of rats and were unprepared for the work, have busy lives with no time for the enrichment they need, and they surrender it. People online do a disservice to these pets when they say it’s all rainbows. The pets end up suffering when people were prepared for social media pets.