He's been acting kind of strange today.
First, this morning he tried to take a bite out of my finger. I figured it might have been the stuff they had rubbed in my fingers when I had my acrylic nails removed. I had washed my hands, but thought maybe he could still smell it with his keen sense of smell, so I went on with my day as usual.
Then tonight he's been acting so lively. He sprang out of his big snuggle sack that is hanging in his cage. I had bought an all natural dog biscuit for Sammy and one for him, too. I broke a piece off and gave it to him through the bars. He snatched it like a madman and ran over to the other side of his cage to nibble on it. Whenever my hand would go near the cage, he would spring over to it and reach through the bars. Sammy was sniffing the cage, and I was even worried he'd try to bite her nose! Normally I worried about the opposite happening!
Maybe this is just normal behavior for rats. I'm hoping you guys could give me some insight. In the last several days he's been very calm and withdrawn. I usually had to coax him out of his little snuggle house. I would even stick my finger in and scratch behind his ear, and he really liked it. I could hold him, and do pretty much whatever I wanted, he was just so relaxed. So now, after his attempt to stick my finger in his mouth, and the whole springing around like a lunatic, has really startled me.
Maybe he's just feeling better? xD
Even after all the times I scooped him up out of the cage, he would either be fine with it or sometimes squeak a little, but never bite. Now I'm worried that if I stick my hand in there, he's going to take a chunk out of it. >.>; Before he was like, "Whatever," whenever I wanted to mess around with his cage, and now he jumps out of his house like, "What's going on!?" and I'm not sure if he wants to bite me or he's just being a normal curious little rat. The behavior has just taken me by surprise since he has acted totally different in the last week that I have had him. It is a sudden change, not something that has occurred gradually.