A friend of mine with a lot of rat experience suggest that giving the rats gentle touches - brief strokes so they wouldn’t have time to get anxious – would get them used to being handled.
Well so far I haven’t managed to pick either of the girls up and I think they’d be a little twitch about me trying, so that seemed like a good plan.
I was hanging out, reading and I noticed that Trudy had stuck her head into the best but most o her rear was sticking out. So very gently I reached in and used a fingertip to lightly stroke.
No response.
So I did it again.
No response.
At this point I thought “OK, let’s go for it” and started stroking gently, petting. And after a few seconds she started Bruxing – little rat purrs. A few moments after that she must have wondered who was petting her if Oreo was in front of her and turned around to see what was up.
Every so often I catch her with the same trick and it always takes her a few seconds to catch on.
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