Kermit&Pickles.Mom
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Hi thanks for reading my post.
The end of February early March I purchased from a pet store 3 hairy rats and all three of them with different features and personalities. All three are males and brothers. I couldn't seperate them, so I got them!
There's one albino rat, there's one fancy rat and there's one dumbo rat but the albino rat has Dumbo ears - it's a cute mix amongst them all.
My fancy rat is incredibly intelligent; friendly, polite, trusting and interacts with people that he comes across. My dumbo rat and albino rat are very timid; very sketch, very scared very unsure and constantly in a hurry if they have to go from their food to their water and back to bed, they never seem to relax.
Fancy rat lets me pet him and he's just over all really great.
But the two timid ones; they will bite you when you offer them a treat of any sort so to substitute the biting I don't know what to do other than feed them through the bars of the cage and even then they're quite nippy to grab.
We don't dare to pet them - we do try to talk to them and be friendly but they ultimately are just too scared.
How do I help my two timid boys?
The end of February early March I purchased from a pet store 3 hairy rats and all three of them with different features and personalities. All three are males and brothers. I couldn't seperate them, so I got them!
There's one albino rat, there's one fancy rat and there's one dumbo rat but the albino rat has Dumbo ears - it's a cute mix amongst them all.
My fancy rat is incredibly intelligent; friendly, polite, trusting and interacts with people that he comes across. My dumbo rat and albino rat are very timid; very sketch, very scared very unsure and constantly in a hurry if they have to go from their food to their water and back to bed, they never seem to relax.
Fancy rat lets me pet him and he's just over all really great.
But the two timid ones; they will bite you when you offer them a treat of any sort so to substitute the biting I don't know what to do other than feed them through the bars of the cage and even then they're quite nippy to grab.
We don't dare to pet them - we do try to talk to them and be friendly but they ultimately are just too scared.
How do I help my two timid boys?