RattoPazzo
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I've been trying to introduce my oldy girl, Tamira, of two years to my two new girls, Sigma and Runa, who are 1.5. All of them have a pretty dominant character.
It as been slow, and for now I can have meating of just two of them because Sigma is very aggressive. I started with the carrier method with all three, but after 5 hours they were still figthing. So now I'm doing nutral territory with Tamira and Runa. This two understand eachother good but it's been 2 week and they still have not established a herarchy. I still can't put them in the same cage for more than 5 minutes before all hell brakes loose.
I'm beginning to fear that thay will never get along and I'm worried that I'm stressing my old rat, as she is the one that has to submit to the new ones.
On top of this, only after getting the new ones, I was told by my local rescue that many rats that come from the breeder I adopted the new rats from, have iperaggression problems that can only be solved by spay and "behaviural riabilitation". I don't think I have extreme cases of this but I did notice that the pinning is very prolonged and the stances are aggressive even after Tamira has submitted. The only positive is that Tami and Runa can eat from the same dish without attaccing eachother.
So, all that considerd, what do I do? Do I go on? Is there something else I can try?
It as been slow, and for now I can have meating of just two of them because Sigma is very aggressive. I started with the carrier method with all three, but after 5 hours they were still figthing. So now I'm doing nutral territory with Tamira and Runa. This two understand eachother good but it's been 2 week and they still have not established a herarchy. I still can't put them in the same cage for more than 5 minutes before all hell brakes loose.
I'm beginning to fear that thay will never get along and I'm worried that I'm stressing my old rat, as she is the one that has to submit to the new ones.
On top of this, only after getting the new ones, I was told by my local rescue that many rats that come from the breeder I adopted the new rats from, have iperaggression problems that can only be solved by spay and "behaviural riabilitation". I don't think I have extreme cases of this but I did notice that the pinning is very prolonged and the stances are aggressive even after Tamira has submitted. The only positive is that Tami and Runa can eat from the same dish without attaccing eachother.
So, all that considerd, what do I do? Do I go on? Is there something else I can try?
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