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Velo

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Just wanted a place to record my intros!

I am introing 4 neutered boys who are 4-7 months (?) to my 3 spayed girls who are almost 18 months!

Intros are going unbelievably well.
Today was intro 2. My neutral ground is the bathroom floor. Intro 1 was yesterday for 30ish minutes. No problems except Rizzy and Duke both got covered in baby food. x_x
Today was a 1.5 hour session. Again no problems, I dropped the baby food and added some hidey places.
The girls like to squeak some protests when they get sniffed but they're always complaining. :)

The girls clearly are feeling reinvigorated by these boys.. I saw popcorning from them tonight which I haven't seen from them for a while.

Anyway I might move intros to the ratroom tomorrow (no cage access) because things are going so well and also because it gets soooo hot in that bathroom.

Some pictures :)
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it will be a lot easier with these boys. They went in with 3 boys without any issues I know they will love girls. Maybe it will make the girls slim down LOL it did for astryd.
 
Lol Rizzys the only fat one. She is quite the large ratty. Pika is tiny and Theia is normal. X3
Rizzy is a lazy bum though maybe these boys will get her moving.
 
Did intros in the rat room (familiar territory) last night for 2 hours. Went perfect! Had a bit of wrestling and boxing but nothing unusual.
The boys love to play, the girls not as much. Luckily the boys are respectful to the girls and just wrestle with each other. :)

I'm back in the rat room tonight, my plan for now is to keep intros in here for their daily out time (2hours) until I can move them in next Friday or Saturday. :)

Here's some pictures from last night!

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Right! Such a shock to me haha.
We spent another 2 hours in the rat room last night and we're all here again now.

They are driving me nuts because they all want to get to the cage. Is opening the cage / having cage access during intros a bad idea?
I've left the carrier in the ratroom the past 2 sessions and they're okay sharing that, but they miss their house. X3

If not I can manage, it'll only be 5 or 6 more sessions.

Rizzys been getting some exercise, which is great to see. :)
 
Unfortunately I am back to working 11 hour days so I won't be able to clean the cage till Friday at the soonest. I was just gonna move them in Saturday after cleaning but it was so late and we had too much going on Sunday.

Anywho, I'm sure I can manage them during out time for another four days though. :3
They are just such snots, trying to tear down my cardboard wall. XD
 
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I'm so happy tomorrow is move in day. They can be such snots when they don't have cage access. [emoji14]
I'm expecting things to go smoothly, but ya never know. As long as the girls have a place to hide out when the boys are feeling playful, we should be good. :)

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Pretty much impossible to get a pic with all 7 hehe.

The girls also had their 18 Month Birthday today! Happy birthday girls, you get boyfriends as a gift! :3
 
Move in night!!!!

Unfortunately I got stuck at work late tonight... but that didn't stop me !
So I've been cleaning the cage and we are all finally in the rat room, with the cage open.

They've all been in and out, running like wild. They're so happy. :)
We'll see if anything changes once the initial excitement dies down. Otherwise I'm in my ratroom and hunkering down with Netflix and pizza for the rest of the night !!

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Lol it did.
Everything's been fine, we are officially one big happy family. :D
Rizzy is sooooo much more active and friendly now, it blows my mind.

My dad met my rats for the first time yesterday.... he was so impressed by how sweet Baelfire and Tonka were haha. He loved Baels ears and watching him eat a cheerio. XD
 
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