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I rescued two 6 month PEW boys this past Sunday, Herbert and Edgar, And they keep Biting. Each time I've offered my fingers for them to smell, they attempt to bite at me and have gotten me twice both drawing blood. They've accepted food, but have been extremely skittish and are mostly hiding in...

I adopted a baby boy rat, grover, around june of this year. He was super shy and gentle, introductions didn't go to plan [bath tub meet-up method] and my rat bert attacked him viciously. bert began bullying ernie, my other rat, so I had 2 rats that got along fine and 1 aggressor. I got rid of...

Hello, I'm new here and still trying to understand how this works. Anyhow, I registered to this community because I wanted to get some advice from long term rat owners because it seems like where I live, veterinarians don't know much about rats. The 12th of September I got two male rats from...

My male rat Atlas is suddenly aggressive out of no where. He is 2 years old and has never shown any sort of aggression before. I have 4 other rats besides him. Two of them are 7 months and the other two are about 8 weeks. He only has a problem with one of the rats, Milo who is 7 months. Milo is...

I have two boys that only have about a 5-month difference in age. When I first introduced the younger one to the older everything was fine and they were perfectly happy with each other. As the younger rat has grown up they have started to have more and more issues with each other. Eventually, I...

hi so i recently rehomed 2 female rats. the past owners told me they were very tame and sweet. but one of them keeps biting me, following me around the cage and trying to bite me through the bars. they told me they like to be hand fed but everytime i even go near the cage one of them lunges me...

Hi! New here! Made this post since I couldn’t exactly figure out the answer to my questions anywhere on the web, and before I begin my rats are getting neutered on July 10th that’s already been booked way before any of this happened it’s just that’s the soonest their vet could get them in. I...

So i have 2 older rats about 1.2 years old and i decided to get 2 little friends for them (all males). 1 of the new rats sadly passed way the other one is fine though and is now 4 months old but hes suddenly biting my other rats (since a week and a half 2 instances). They still cuddle and play...