Rat Tricks 2

[TheGerbilTrain]

My Dumbo Rat, Cosmo, knows shake, sit, roll, fetch, spin, stand, speak, and lay down!(:

[xXmadelonXx]

what is that clicking sound?

i really love you vid!

i'm gonna teach my rats to!

[dragonofdiamonds]

It's a clicker (like they use for dogs) :) I use it to train my rats. Sound=you-did-something-right=­treat

Thanks for the comment, and good luck with your rats :)

[xoRattieJ]

OMG I love the shake one! =D CUTE RAT!

[dragonofdiamonds]

Thanks so much :)

[spassgamer]

you have trained your rats very well! I also thought about buying rats. I used to have hamsters and lately i saw a rat and im fascinated! Undortunatly they pee around very often, is that right?? Cause hamsters dont do that normally....

[dragonofdiamonds]

Thank you! As far as the pee goes, it really depends on the rat. I've only had one male, and he wanted to mark surfaces he had never been on, but didn't pee on me. The girls, for the most part, don't mark surfaces, but might occasionally drop a tiny bit of pee on you. Honestly though, it isn't bad at all, and I would never let it be.

[love2barrelrace]

i have a dumbo rat (emmett) and i REALLY want to teach him to shake any advice...i dont have access to a clicker...any other ideas?

[dragonofdiamonds]

I guess you could food reward him without a clicker. He should probably be able to pick up on it :)

[artemisfair]

@love2barrelrace those clickers cost about a dollar or two, but I saw a video of a girl online, she just clicks her tongue on the roof of her mouth instead.

[Princesslunali]

Wow nice job training them. I tired the clicker trick with my 2 fat boys but they were very disobedient. However

I'm going to try again I'm glad too see it works for rats.

:D

[dragonofdiamonds]

Thanks! Good luck training :) It's sort of a long process you have to keep up with, since they have such short attention spans, but it's worth it :)

[reptileguy100]

im going too breed pure breed dumbo rats

[reptileguy100]

WOW OH MY GOD IM AM GOING TOO TRY THAT and is that a dumbo rat there

[dragonofdiamonds]

Good luck : ) Yes, the black one is a dumbo rat ^^

[squirrelfry]

thanks for your videos! after watching them, i started clicker training my rats - i never thought they'd learn so fast!

[dragonofdiamonds]

That's awesome!! I never realized how smart these guys can get until I learned about clicker training :)

[MasterOfTheMidgets]

Ooh. Very nicely done. The rats are very confident and persice meaning the tricks have been well taught. Nice job.

[dragonofdiamonds]

Thanks! Glad you think so :)

[sn2727]

thats great. is the clicker training the best way? it looks like it!!!

[dragonofdiamonds]

Thanks! I've never used clicker training before these guys, but I found to be extremely efficient :D Once your critter is used to the sound, it's great!

[bmd0123]

Great job!

[dragonofdiamonds]

Thanks!

[petpplluv]

i have just today brought home two of the most adorable little baby boy rats, one is very calm but the other gets a bit nervous when handled and ends up peeing on you, how can i build his confidence and start training the other?

[dragonofdiamonds]

Just continue handling him every day. Certain rats just take longer to become more comfortable and confident. Tundra was like that, and she just needed a little more security than Sardines. However, the more handling you do, and feeding them treats after they've been out, will help increase their confidence and they should stop peeing, more or less. Some rats will dribble a little pee on you like marking, but that usually stops or diminishes with time too.

[malibubeachbum94]

Your rats are really cool. My sister is getting two rats this coming Sunday.

We wont to be able to teach them tricks like how your doing. What would be a starting trick you would recomend? and how should we teach them the trick?

[dragonofdiamonds]

Thanks! Good luck with your rats! I recommend using small food as rewards for training (I use Vitakraft mix blend food). A good thing to start training is the rat's name. Have them come when you call. Just call your rat, and when they come to you, or turn in your general direction, give them food. If you have a clicker, I would use that, as it makes training future tricks much easier.

[millineu]

How did you teach Sardines spin? Because I have tried to teach that before (well actually I tried to get her to do it standing on her hind legs, maybe that was too complex) and I couldn't do it...do you reward them even if they do some of the spin? did you lead their nose around with food? I might have been talking too much actually and confused them:P Or maybe didn't persist long enough...how long did it take to teach them?

[dragonofdiamonds]

Lol, it was kind of an accident! I was trying to teach her fetch, and clicking on nose contact to a cottonball. The cottonball got moved behind her, and she nosed it but kept going in a complete circle, so I clicked for that and decided to work on that instead. After that I started clicking if she turned behind her then for a half circle, and finally, full circle. After she had done a full circle a few times, I did use food to lure her in a circle if she didn't do a complete one. Good luck!

[TKNivek]

whoa, I had no idea that could be done

[dragonofdiamonds]

Yep! Rats are smart little guys ^^

[love2barrelrace]

im soooo sad! i went on vacation and the people i paid to take care of my rat emmett didnt check his water and he died in my hands when i got home. He was barely alive and super thirsty. I did everything i could but it was to lake = '(

[dragonofdiamonds]

That's really sad :( I'm so sorry...

[artemisfair]

@love2barrelrace that's terrible. I hope those people feel ashamed of themselves. 

[Glyckstadt]

Awesome. I love the jump WOW :) !!!! I have two rat-girls :) Rats are more inteligent than dogs, its true !

[dragonofdiamonds]

lol, thanks! Rats are awesome for sure :D

[kmizzle7]

That is awesome! I have a rat and I have taught him to stand, walk upright, and spin. How did you start teaching yours to shake? I would like to teach that to my rat.

[dragonofdiamonds]

Thanks! Shake was actually pretty easy, and if you've taught yours to do all that you should have no problem. I just started by holding out my pointer finger from a closed hand that had food in it. If the rat touched my finger with her paw, she got food/click. I just worked it up to where she would keep her paw on my finger for a second or two, rather an just remove it immediately. Since the action is so easily associated with food, its easy for them to pick up :)

[ZED305]

wat is the clicking sound and how did you train them to do that?????????

[dragonofdiamonds]

The click is my clicker. I train my rats via clicker training, hence the clicking noise ;) The only thing I didn't train them to do originally with a clicker was to stand up, which you saw Sardines do.

[ZED305]

wow rats r cool