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I love your ratties and your channel. Even tho we lost our babies over the past several months I still love to watch your videos. They are comforting and make me smile and remind me of all the good times we had with our babies. 🐁💜

@RoskinGreenrake

3 жыл бұрын

Ah hence the black shirt..

Hi!! im a huge fan and love rats i appreciate the when you loved my comment the other day,Thank you!!

My rats love a challenge so that last one will be perfect for them!

Foraging toy videos are my favourite! Well, those and watching Bean sleep. I don't have rats (allergies) but I like to see what's out there. I never considered that cat toy could be used as a foraging unit. Might work for my chinchillas or rabbits? I guess I'll find out!

@heavenlyiz5990

2 жыл бұрын

How did you find out you had rat allergies? Allergy test or exposed to rats? I want to get pet rats but not sure about allergies.

I just got 2 female baby rats Monday I will admit they are from a pet shop but I live in a small town and they treat their rats amazing.

This was REALLY helpful. I was researching some foraging toys and found this video. Thanks!

Lovely Bean 🤗

My 2 girls love to play this way: Take a (dollar tree) plastic table cloth, spread it out on the floor. Pick one side up and they run under it, & then peek out. I grab it & it gets kisses & put back under it again. They will play as long as you last!

@ShadowTheRat

2 жыл бұрын

I love that! I'll have to try with my ratty Egg - she's super playful and loves the "blanket game" (she runs out of the blanket, gets ruffled, bounces back to the blanket, and repeat)!

Thanks for this video! I will definitely check them out now!

Забавные малыши 🤗👏👏👏

We love your Girls! The ball toy it my girls favorite. Thanks Shadow for the videos of the forging toys. I got to say, the piñatas are my favorite. I get the bigger ones so they have to climb in and get the treats. Sorry another video 🤪. Happy New Year Everyone!!

Happy happy new year 2021 to you and your adorable rat's. Have a great year and thank you for this video very interesting. 🎉🎈🎊🎇🎆 🐀

I thought my ratties were food/treat motivated.....Bean has that title on lock

Hello im a big fan thank you so much for responding to my comment💝!!!

Hello! How heavy would you say each pull-out section is for the gambling tower? I think my pet mouse would enjoy it but I don’t know if it would be too heavy for him. As an upper estimate for his strength it’s about the same as pushing down with your pinky as hard as possible. Would this be enough to pull out one of the sections?

Hi, I just wanted to ask a quick tip about training my rats. I have been teaching them to spin for a couple of weeks, and have been watching your videos on how to do it. However, I can’t get to the part where I can have the rats spin with my hand over their head with the treat in a circle, and thus can’t get to using a cue. I’ve watched your videos and have followed your steps, but they just won’t progress to the next stage even when I go back to the previous step to strengthen it. Thanks and happy new year! 🐀

@ShadowTheRat

3 жыл бұрын

Probably the hardest part about using luring to teach tricks is fading the lure. It’s a bit of a tricky thing since it’s a great way to get a behavior started but if you use it too long the animal gets stuck just following it, and they don’t focus on the action they are doing itself. Anyways there are a few things you can do to get out of this, and you’ll have to play around some to see what works for you. The first thing I’d try is lure them around a few times with the lure, then take your hand with no treat and pinch it like your holding a treat and lure them around, then reward. After doing this once or twice now take your hand fully open (so not pretending to hold a treat) and lure them around, then reward. Essentially you are teaching them that they aren’t getting rewarded just for following a treat so much as being rewarded for the action. Once you do this without the treat a few times then you can speed up your hand and gradually put it over their head. Another thing you can try is using a more high value treat. Do this when they are super food motivated at the beginning of training and it will encourage them to bypass some of the learned lure following and act more spontaneously. They might even offer a spin without any help, which at this point you’d want to reward. I used this method recently when teaching Sugar fetch since she got stuck in a loop of not moving forward with the item. I had reinforced sideways movement with it too much and so she got stuck just doing that - but by using super high value treats and only working on it for a few minutes at most she was so excited when doing it that she would accidentally offer a bit more, which I could then reward. And over time this new more extreme action becomes the most reinforced thing and so they offer it more and more. Another option is to train spin the other way first. This lets you get a fresh start and you can work to increase criteria faster, which helps to bypass the issue of transitioning from lure to cue. I’ve found that most rats can get spin down very quickly but you have to increase criteria constantly. I try to never stay at the same step for more than two repetitions and I’ve found that this really works for spin. With my first few rats it took a long time to train spin because I over did each step, which got us stuck in the lure only rut. But by going faster we now bypass that and it becomes a lot easier to quickly move to spinning on cue. Finally the last thing I’d recommend if you haven’t already done so is just training the lure separately. By working luring as it’s own behavior the rats learn to focus on the action they are lured into instead of just fixating on the treat. This helps a lot especially once you get to agility or other chain behaviors and really reduces frustration and confusion and so it’s the first thing I teach any rat that I get now.

I have the red yellow and green treat balls with carrots on them. I can’t get my rats to push them around! They always just shove their face in it to get them, or chew holes through them. How to I get them to use the toy properly?

Hey shadow the rat next video that you make in the comments can you tell me how to take care of my mouse because he’s very feisty and always tries to bite me and it’s been over two months since I had him and I Try really hard this is so frustrating he just looks like he wants to buy it every single day and I don’t know what I’m supposed to do to make them stop it because like I tried everything I can but I know I watch so many videos and I still can’t do it

There like mini dogs

@ShadowTheRat

3 жыл бұрын

So true!

Are there also Foraging toys you can create out of cardboard boxes?

@ShadowTheRat

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Let me link you some DIY foraging toy videos I’ve made using cardboard, sisal string, hot glue, and occasionally paper cups. Here’s the first (DIY foraging toys using a mix of common household items): m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/pneuy8-kkauTgpc.html Here’s the second (DIY foraging toys and other rat toys using toilet paper tubes): m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/o311po-GhMrFcaw.html And here’s the 3rd (DIY foraging toys and other rat toys using tissue boxes): m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/dKqpkpeTc8Ldmpc.html I hope these help some - I LOVE making diy foraging toys and other rat toys, and I think the rats also enjoy the ability to rip up a toy once in a while lol

@justinetieri4441

2 жыл бұрын

@@ShadowTheRat thank you!!

Any tips on first time free ranging? I’m am going to get my girls out tomorrow and I have already rat proofed my room, but I’m nervous they will be scared and find somewhere that I didn’t rat proof because I never saw it. I have tried to get one of my girls out a couple of times, but the girl I tried with is a jumper and she was climbing on the cage in no time and we didn’t want her doing that, so getting a hold of her was very traumatic for both her and me.

@ShadowTheRat

3 жыл бұрын

If they aren’t thrilled with being handled yet you might consider a smaller area or blocking it off with a playpen. I would still suggest free cage access since they should see it as a safe spot and return for naps or eating or drinking and such, and being able to come and go at will gives them a lot more confidence. Otherwise make sure to put out lots of houses and tunnels for them to hide in, and it also helps to wear a baggy hoody or blanket so they have a warm dark place to enjoy. Otherwise watch them careful the first few times and as they adjust you can relax that a bit. And of course it helps to hand out treats when they come by you once they are comfortable enough to accept them outside the cage.

@oliviar09

3 жыл бұрын

@@ShadowTheRat ok thanks. I will try and give them free cage access but I do have one girl who is still pretty skittish and is a lot smaller than my other girls. I was only planning on trying it with my two girls who do let me handle them. I’m afraid they will go behind the cage and stay there the whole time, like they have the other time I tried free range. But thank you this was very helpful!

@ShadowTheRat

3 жыл бұрын

Can you block off behind the cage? The way I have it set up my playpen Velcro’s to the cage edges so they can’t get behind the cage - maybe you could block off the behind the cage part by taping or velcroing on cardboard (I had the same issue as you with my first rats and first cage since I had it elevated and they would hide under it - I ended up just using a travel cage to give them comforts instead with stuff from the regular cage and it worked okay, but seeing my current rats have the choice with the normal large cage they seem to prefer it and find it even more comforting than the small travel cage was).

@oliviar09

3 жыл бұрын

@@ShadowTheRat I have my cage elevated, and the shelf under is also attached. I can try to block it off with cardboard. I thought of taking the shelf off, but it would still be difficult to get them back even without the shelf. Thanks for the tips!

Where can one buy these

@ShadowTheRat

3 жыл бұрын

I have them linked in the description, or you can look up their names online

I got the cat toy thing with the balls in it, does anyone know how to get the bells out without destroying them??

@ShadowTheRat

Жыл бұрын

Gently pull back on two sides of one of the plastic slits on the ball, then tilt the ball down and the bell will fall right out!

@Rattiekisses4all

Жыл бұрын

@@ShadowTheRat thank you so much!

What species are your rats? i really wana know !

@lazuligamez3513

3 жыл бұрын

The rats that are usually available (and that this owner has) are called fancy rats (Rattus norvegicus domestica). They may look wildly different, but they are all just different varieties of the same species of rat. You can find them in many colors (white, agouti, black, etc), with many different fur textures (rex, velveteen, satin, etc), and with different ear shapes (dumbo, top ear).

@tomekspoks

3 жыл бұрын

@@lazuligamez3513 Thank You

The slots are empty, mom!

It's funny cause it makes you look like a expert in rat puzzles ..like you should probably be working in politics heh. Altho seen as you picked dog toys I'd guess that there are not many out there to choose from.

hello! I love your videos that are my starters but I have a rat myself and you could check it out because I can do a few shout outs to your cannel.