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Watch Pet Rats Playing and Doing Tricks Video

Pet Rats Playing and Doing Tricks
Feb 22, 2012
Spare footage of Achilles and Patroclus from May-August 2010. Please forgive the camera being a bit wobbly at times because I was filming, giving commands, and rewarding my boys simultaneously. Not easy! About half of the time they are just playing, but in the other half the tricks you'll see them doing are fetch, spin, and walk. Fetch and spin speak for themselves, but walk, to those unfamiliar with rats, will look like they are just chasing after treats and that it is no trick. That is kind of true, but untrained rats will follow a moving treat that just out of their reach on all fours, then rear up when they get underneath it. The trick is getting them to follow the treat without putting their front legs down. Lastly, I took the audio of me giving the commands out. Sorry if you wanted to hear it, but it is really lame to hear the same three words repeated over and over and over again. At least I think so. Instead, please enjoy the musical stylings of Janet Jackson (I originally picked Duncan Sheik, but apparently his music label is a bunch of little bitches).

Watch Pet rats - why it's important to have two or more Video

Pet rats - why it's important to have two or more
Feb 22, 2012
Food for thought for those considering buying just one rat on its own, or those who already have just one rat: Rats are really sociable animals and need company all the time, not just human interaction and cuddles but rat companionship. Someone to groom and to groom them back, someone to curl up with for warmth and safety at night, someone to eat food beside so that they don't feel vunerable. No matter how great an owner you are or how much time your rat spends with you, you still have to sleep and work and no human can replace a second rat for the interaction they get from one another. It's so important for their quality of life to have a buddy with them at all times. Please ask any questions and leave comments. I hope the video can start to show the connection and bond that two rats form. Whiskey and Womble would never want to be without the other. Please note: If you do only have one rat at the moment then it's important that you don't simply get another rat and put it into the same cage. In that situation rats will often fight and could kill each other. For advise on introducing rats to each other please message me. I also just want to add that recently Womble has been pretty ill and Whiskey has been so great to him. He cuddles and grooms him and won't leave his side. They know when something is wrong with the other and will do what they can to help. Thanks for watching

Watch How to Introduce a pet rat to water Video

How to Introduce a pet rat to water
Feb 21, 2012
Please read: This video should help to show a good way to introduce your pet rats to water and one day could result in them diving and swimming in it :). However, it's important to understand that some pet rats will just not like water. Your success will vary depending on your individual critter(s). This description runs along-side the video so please read: Important Rules: * Never place your rat in the water, if your rat has not chosen to go in itself then it will instinctively just want to get straight back out again. This will not be a good water experience and can really set progress back. * Always use fresh, clean water and clean the tubs out well before each use. * It's really important to take the increase in depth slowly. Base it on your rats progress so that you are going at their speed not your own. They will go in deeper water in time but if you make it too deep too early they will just not go in and you will end up taking steps backwards. * Its again important that your rat can at all times get out if they want to. So, if the sides of the tub are too high for the rat to EASILY jump out of, there really must be a ladder. If the rat does not have an easy route out they will feel less secure and this will lead to either not wanting to go in, or once in they will just want to get straight back out. * With the last point in mind I'm against using the bath tub as a swimming place for rats. The sides of the bath are too tall for easy and safe escape, also there is ...

Watch Pet Rat Care : Picking a Pet Rat Video

Pet Rat Care : Picking a Pet Rat
Feb 21, 2012
Watch as an animal care specialist demonstrates how to pick a pet rat care in this free online video about exotic pets. Expert: Laura Fitzgerald Bio: Laura Fitzgerald has been an animal lover her entire life. Having her first pet rat at the age of 5 (after rescuing it from the snake food chain). Filmmaker: Kenneth Jackson

Watch How to teach a pet rat to spin (four steps) Video

How to teach a pet rat to spin (four steps)
Feb 21, 2012
Whiskey walks us through the steps of how to teach a pet rat to spin by voice command. When trying this, don't spend too long training the rat each day, 5 minutes a day is long enough and even at that they are clever enough to pick this up in a few days. This is important too to make sure they are not over-fed during training. Also don't be in too much of a hurry to move on a step, take time to get the rats used to each stage so that they can understand what is expected of them. Best to basically let your rat dictate how quickly they learn it. Finally, whiskey made the "step" videos today when he can already spin really well, so if the stages look "too neat" i appologise, especially stage three :P. He's just not used to having so much help with the spins anymore. Feel free to ask any questions or give your own tips.

Watch Pet Rats - The best pet on earth! (This one will make you feel like aaawwwww :)) Video

Pet Rats - The best pet on earth! (This one will make you feel like aaawwwww :))
Feb 21, 2012
Rats are just the cutest and most adorable pets on this planet. They do not bother you in your daily life and are a lot of fun to play with. They are really intelligent creatures and most of the rat owners fall in love with them :) This is my first video on my girls (Linda, Timmsy and Lizzie)..I love them... do not forget to rate and comment...And do not post rude comments. have fun Visit me on facebook - www.facebook.com

Watch Pet Rat Care : Socializing Pet Rats Video

Pet Rat Care : Socializing Pet Rats
Feb 20, 2012
Watch as an animal care specialist demonstrates how to socialize a pet rat in this free online video about exotic pets. Expert: Laura Fitzgerald Bio: Laura Fitzgerald has been an animal lover her entire life. Having her first pet rat at the age of 5 (after rescuing it from the snake food chain). Filmmaker: Kenneth Jackson

Pet Rat Play Time
Jan 17, 2012
My pet fancy rats (frats as we like to call them) can do some amazing things. They are arguably the smartest mammal of the rodent kingdom. Watch them squeeze in tight spaces, jump, eat, and crawl right over each other. When they are eating pudding, their names are from left to right (Kira, Loki, Martini, and Tandum). The jumper is Kali. The frat on the box is Martini and she then steals food from the plastic bag on the floor. Note - all these were feeder frats destined to be snake food before I bought them. The custom cage plans and all our frat knowledge can be found on www.dapper.com.au but it's not my site.

Watch How to teach a pet rat to retrieve and drop a ball (7 steps) Video

How to teach a pet rat to retrieve and drop a ball (7 steps)
Feb 16, 2012
Extra information: This trick is much harder to teach than the ones Ive previously done a video for (spinning and walking on back legs), so apologies that the video is so long but it needs to be. You will need a lot of patience for this and may need to spend many training sessions on each step before moving on so that your rat can get used to the task at hand. If you move on too fast you will find that your rat will either ignore the glass altogether or at best put two front feet on it and just stare at the ball as though its impossible. If this happens just drop back a step and work with your rat to make that step more mastered before trying again. Womble here has mastered the trick this far (although Im finding more and more that I can take this trick further and have big plans for the next few steps, so be creative), Whiskey is still a work-in-progress and I am using these exact steps so I know the process works. Before each attempt its important to show the rat the treat and the ball so that it understands what is expected, I havent shown that often in this video (it was long enough already) but it is always done, just mostly off camera. Also, once your rats have gotten the hang of what is being asked of them (removing the ball) its worth taking the treat out from the ball, this tends to cause a distraction later on in the training rather than helping If you get lucky you may find that your rat will pick up that it can jump on top of the glass early on and you can ...

Pet rat giving birth
Feb 19, 2012
Date taken Mar. 2006- I am posting this for educational purposes. The birth in this video is an uncomplicated typical rat birth. Mom and babies did great. Please dont breed your rat for fun. This female was a pregant rescue. She also is my "heart rat", my best friend. Thanks for watching!

Pet Rats Ice Fishing
Feb 21, 2012
Lil Ratscals Rattery shows her pet rats Piper and Precious doing their Ice Fishing trick. Three of her rats performed this on the TV show "Pet Star" with Mario Lopez. Carole's cute web site is at www.lilratscal.com where you can learn lots more about pet rats and see lots of cute rat pictures.

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