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Hello. So I've had two female rats for almost a year now and just today I got a new baby female. I'll just make this short, basically my more dominant female(Jiji) when in heat tries to treat my other rat(Bea) like her baby(or at least thats what it seems like). She over grooms and tries to pick bea up and drag her around. It's not aggressive at all and I noticed that's the first thing she's been doing with the new baby. I've been introducing them and everything is going great and they're getting along fine. The only thing is that she's treating her like her baby and I'm worried that she might become possessive of her and aggressive towards bea. I'm only worried about it because Jiji is the only one who has ever bitten me and has shown possessive tendencies(despite being a sweet girl usually). So far Bea has played with the new baby and pinned her down and everything without Jiji getting aggressive at all. Is this a possibility when I move her into their cage? I'm not too worried about it but my mom brought it up and thought I'd ask anyway. I'd hate for jiji to be aggressive towards bea as they have always been best friends and bea is just the sweetest baby ever.