Embedded YouTube videos of baby rat wrestling. Are your babies or new rats being too aggressive with each other? These snapshots of normal play will help you decide, as well as help you learn to play with your rats.
<: 3 )~~~~ <: 3 )~~~~ <: 3 )~~~~ <: 3 )~~~~ <: 3 )~~~~ <: 3 )~~~~ <: 3 )~~~~ <: 3 )~~~~ <: 3 )~~~~ <: 3 )~~~~ <: 3 )~~~~ <: 3 )~~~~ <: 3 )~~~~For starters here's some baby rats play wrestling. This is normal baby play. It can look very aggressive, but if it has certain characteristics, you can call it play. The babies should take all roles: flipper rat, flippee rat, "winner," and "loser." There might be very loud squeeks of protest, but as long as no blood is drawn, they are finding their proper places in the hierarchy of their mischief.
Now here's a (teenage?) rat play wrestling with her human. In fact, her report describes her as "Sophia the rat hand-wrestling champ, 2009." Compare this wrestling to the babies wrestling above, and you can see how rats can learn to play with us. We should be careful not to push too far, and stay within the rules of play as the rats determine them.
"My two, 10-week old baby rats, Ptolomy (black banded roan) and McClane (pale grey roan) having playtime." More fierce play wrestling. These behaviors are normal! My own two and one-half YEAR old rats still occassionally wrestle with each other in just this fashion.
Here's baby Luna playing from inside the cage with her human's fingers outside the cage. I suggest bringing the baby out to play. Inside the cage, is very safe. Outside the cage, not so safe until the human teaches the baby it's okay. Exposing the baby to a confined area where the cage is absent, will help the human and baby become more bonded in this kind of play.
Rose, Si, Am and Camille, showing off more baby rat wrestling.
Rub a baby rat in just the right way and she will calm down and begin to enjoy you and bond with you. If you're viewing this in the keywords gallery, click below to go to some pages with embedded youtube videos of baby rats wrestling with each other and interacting with humans.
GALLERY - YOUTUBE VIDEOS OF CUDDLING BABY RATS. If you're viewing this on the Keyword page, click the link below to visit several pages of embedded youtube videos of baby rats playing, wrestling, and interacting with humans.
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