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Playing with Rats

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Good Stress

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Good Stress

This would be an example of "good stress": a brief or day-long adventure which puts a little pressure on them but ends positively. They go to the vet but then they come back to their happy home and tell the other rats about it. Or you take them to a rat show. Or you take them to the mall. Dr. Donnelley LIKED this kind of stress so he always encouraged me to pop them into a satchel and take them for a trip...to work, shopping, etc. "Take them on adventures," he'd say. "Rats LOVE adventures!"

Good stress gets the heart pumping, the blood flowing, clears the lungs, keeps the mind sharp, builds an appetite and encourages a good, sound sleep. And the more you get them used to adventures, the more they trust you: they know that eventually you will get them back home: the adventure will still be exciting for them but they won't stress poop or panic.

Make a Homemade Rat Harness
Get butchers twine. 80" long (about 200 centimeters) Double it. Now you have a double length of twine 40" long. Thread a Christmas bell or a button onto the string, slide to the middle of the string. Knot it in. Now double the string again so you have a length of string, 4-ply, with a bell on one end, 20" long. Note: The idea is to use a soft, cotton string with NO STRETCH. You quadruple it so it's nice and thick and it won't cut into the rat's skin like a thin little string would.

Practice on a toy. Hold the rat in your lap with his butt facing your tummy, his head facing out. With the left hand, place the button on the back of his neck -- at the middle of his shoulders. Now with your right hand, bring the string down his left shoulder, down across his chest into his right armpit, up his right armpit to his back. Bring the string clockwise around the button/bell, and down over his right shoulder, down across his chest and under and up his left armpit. Then
slipknot around the button.

Cautions:
I only used this to teach Ick! to free range: with a bell, he was really easy to locate any time. Even if I was making cookies or something, all I had to do was listen for the bell and I'd know he was under the couch or somewhere.

Eventually, he learned to bite himself out of it, but by that time, he had learned free-ranging and I could usually locate him anywhere in the house in a few seconds: usually by calling him.

I used it only a few times to walk the rat outside in the yard. You can try it but MAKE SURE YOU KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON THAT RAT. The main problem is if he finds a wild rat hole: he'll be down that hole in a second and you'll never see him again. So don't give him too much string and WATCH HIM/HER! STAY CLOSE!

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