her.corner
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Lenny was the most social, happy boy ever. He loved getting outside his cage, getting into everything, running, jumping, sitting with me at my desk, sleeping outside the cage-and bruxing all the time. Now he's terrified and doesn't want to leave his cage at all.
A little background:
I've had Lenny for a week and a half and just before he got terrified I left the room last night for about 10 or 15 minutes to go to the bathroom and such--my room is completely rat proofed.
I can't think of what could've went wrong in that span of time to have such an affect on him. It's as though he's become a completely different rat over the course of a few minutes.
The only thing I can think of at all is that my newest addition Dee Dee, who has been trying like mad to climb up the ferret nation to get to my girls on top, despite my doing everything to prevent her--such as putting up cardboard along the bottom of the cage to prevent her from climbing up--managed to somehow climb up and thus got scared by something, which scared him in turn.
But would that really be enough to terrify him? It's breaking my heart to see this. What can I do to help him? It's killing me.
A little background:
I've had Lenny for a week and a half and just before he got terrified I left the room last night for about 10 or 15 minutes to go to the bathroom and such--my room is completely rat proofed.
I can't think of what could've went wrong in that span of time to have such an affect on him. It's as though he's become a completely different rat over the course of a few minutes.
The only thing I can think of at all is that my newest addition Dee Dee, who has been trying like mad to climb up the ferret nation to get to my girls on top, despite my doing everything to prevent her--such as putting up cardboard along the bottom of the cage to prevent her from climbing up--managed to somehow climb up and thus got scared by something, which scared him in turn.
But would that really be enough to terrify him? It's breaking my heart to see this. What can I do to help him? It's killing me.