Yes, rats squeak — and people search for that question by the hundreds every month, usually because they've heard one in a wall and want to know what it was. These 24 rat recordings answer the question and several adjacent ones: high contact squeaks from pups, the longer alarm calls of an adult, the scratching of claws on metal pipework that mimics sewer-rat texture, dying-rodent vocalisations for darker scenes, and the contented chittering that pet owners recognise as 'happy'.
Animation and cartoon work reaches for the higher-pitched pup squeaks because they read as 'small' without explanation. Horror and thriller productions use the wall-scratching and the alarm calls to suggest infestation off-camera. Wildlife documentary editors pull the chittering and contact calls. A small set of pictures-of-sewer-rats search traffic lands here looking for audio too — they get a one-click grab, free to download with no signup or attribution.