Rat tricks - Bestest trick ever!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1Ep7GHJ67k

These are my girlies, Calisto (the fetching one) and Isis (the one that steals the food). The above link is to an even cuter and more close up vid of Calisto fetching. The thing she is fetching is a pen cap. I reward her with peas or cheerios.

As to how I taught her that, well, I dunno really. I started by throwing the pen cap and rewarding her when she chased it (which she did naturally because she is a curious little thing) and then she started picking it up and trying to hide it in her hoarding spot under the bookshelves. So I positioned myself in front of the bookshelf and started snatching it off her when she tried to run past, and giving her a cheerio. So she soon got the idea: Bring the pen cap, receive a food item! At first I did have to tie a string to the pen cap and pull it along towards me, to help her get the idea (I throw the pen cap, and if the pen cap comes back to me, she will get food)

Yea, it was kind of a really cool accident...

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[millineu]

That's because I am the girl from The Ring MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

[SavageRaver]

thats so cute at 1:05 where she tries to find it, gets close and runs back like she got it. And then acts like "What? I brought it back just like you pretended to throw it :D " lol

[FrogmortonHotchkiss]

@eLectroChickLP Two rats or more is better than one but sometimes animal-lovers get overzealous and exaggerate - chances are a lone domestic rat with lots of human contact will still live longer and be better off than a wild one, which will have to battle to survive. Probably varies between rats and environments, like anything else. I would choose total loneliness over the company of certain humans...

I have two brother rats - they squabble but it's fun to see their distinctiveness.

[Jonathanechev]

@ChrisGray714 well i dont have them anymore.i let them be in their cage too much i think. i should have taken them out more because they seemed a little scared to be out of the cage.

[ChrisGray714]

@Jonathanechev i just got new rats too and they arent playful at all do they get playful later wen their older

[megamo1601]

my rat is just like that!! cool tricks

[purpleiskool300]

im gettin 2 rats becuz of this video!!!

[IM921]

"bestest" lol!

[IM921]

Why does people get dogs when they can get a rat!? :p

[BinkyB388252]

My rat is alone. But he is very spoiled and bratty. But i still -3 him.(:

[Lisa4038]

sweeeeat ! :)

[41stgaming]

@eLectroChickLP

NEVER keep a rat alone. rats need live in packs of three or more to be happy. then again I dont expect you to have an appropriate size cage either...