Monday, May 24, 2010

Are my ratties fighting?

ok, i want to know if my rats are fighting.. ive not had to introduce new rats and i cant tell if they are..so if your actually a rat owner who knows, please help..
heres a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gto-y_pte...
Answers:
No, thats natural. They are grooming each other which is a sign of affection. If your hear squeaking when this happens, thats okay. Sometimes if a rat likes you, it will groom you as well.
if either of your rats starts avoiding the other one or you notice it is injured, then yeah they're fighting. we had no problem with 5 male rats in one cage together. then again, they were brothers...
they are not fighting at all, their grooming and that's totally different. what you're seeing is GOOD behavior in a rat!
you'd know if they were actually in a fight, they would be squeaking and biting and someone (err rat) would be injured. what their doing is what you wanna see when you do an introduction.

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