- i got a trio of female mice on monday, the 7th, and i finally figured out names for them!
meet fao, wren, and calla! ❤
the orange one is fao, black one is calla and this is wren!
keronya wrote:they are so precious!!
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i am getting a baby month and a half rat from a breeder tomorrow to join my pair!!
having a pair was great but i think having 3 would establish more of a hierarchy
setting and it'd be more beneficial for their mental health.
for any rat owners out here, how did you go about introducing rats?
first off, i've read forums and watched videos to owners saying 2 weeks to quarantine the
single rat but i think that's too long, i don't want her to be lonely so i was thinking just a
few days quarantine? she's had health checks prior so i don't think she'll transfer any diseases....
i've done some research on different methods for intros but i don't really know which one to start first.
i have a quarantine cage set up for the rat to settle for a couple of days next to the big
cage she will join eventually. i was going to start with the bathtub method, a neutral ground
but i feel like the space will make them more open to violence or they will outright ignore
eachother and slow the process. i also had another method i was going to try which was the
carrier method - neutral space but so small they have no choice but to be close and touching
but they will not want to fight because they know it'd be too dangerous (no escape route).
i was also thinking of putting them all in the quarantine cage to get them used to living together
and the hammocks are all clean so there is no marked items the older rats can attack the new
one over.
i'm all over the place and kind of anxious that it won't work out well.... any help and advice
would be so so so appreciated!!!!!
Strawberry.Milk wrote:Bump! Omg everyone needs to see this, it’s so good!! ☺️🥰
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