This is Bonny 10 months after the first video, and you can see her preferring to play tug-of-war to chasing. Her chasing is also, shall we say, slow? Music is the William Tell Overture, a.k.a. the LONEEEEE RANGERRRRRRRR RIDES AGAINNNNNN.

This is the short version to music, heavily edited for the pure chase. Pet rats rest often when playing feathers. They can overheat easily. Please watch the long version in this album to see what's really involved in supporting your rat to chase feathers. Music courtesy Kevin MacLeod

This my Bonny rat in the longer version, chasing feathers and saving me from the evil bandaid.

Karen helps Eleven, who has total hind-leg paralysis, chase feathers. He is bright, bold, and dedicated to hunt down those feathers. Even with no use of their hind legs, enrichment for these rats is so important to help keep their spirits up. Karen gives Eleven a "wheelbarrow" so he can move more like a normal rat in feather-hunting mode.

Karen Borga's adopted lab rat Therdeefer is introduced to feathers for the first time. The feathers have to do a good job of imitating insects or frogs, or the rat will lose interest. Christimas 2008.

Chancy, 27-months old, has a hard time feather-hunting. Sometimes she gets it, sometimes not. That light-colored bar across her back marks where the vet cut into her hair to remove a tumor. She's had the same tumor removed twice, the last time in March 2009. Currently it has not returned.

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