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For any of you who had been following this, my (with luck, formerly) aggressive ratty boy Lucifer has finally started to calm down. Honestly I don't know what caused it, but I'm glad for this change. I took him out the other day, prepared to go through with extreme immersion with him. I took him to the bathroom, all padded up myself, but...He didn't lunge. He didn't bite. He just sort of regarded me for a while, so I slowly sat down on the floor with him rather than up on the toilet where he couldn't reach me. He climbed up on my lap, sniffed around a bit (peed on my knees), but didn't seem to be acting aggressive towards me at all. After a while I removed my gloves and started offering him treats, which he took calmly from me (though he'd run off to eat them). This went on for a while before he went back to his cage (which was in the bathroom at the time as well, closed so he couldn't get into it); I opened it and let him back in, and he went to his little house and fell asleep.
I'm taking things slowly with him now; he doesn't lunge at me anymore when I walk past his cage. He just watches me, looking at me like he wants out. I don't trust him enough to let him run around with the other five yet, but he seems to be calming considerably. I'm not letting my guard down completely just yet, but I think that this might be a sign that he's not going to resort to acting so aggressively towards me anymore. Maybe he's giving me a chance to see a better side of him. c:
And for the record, I have not done anything different with him. No vet appointment, no change in diet, no change in his free-roaming time.
I'm taking things slowly with him now; he doesn't lunge at me anymore when I walk past his cage. He just watches me, looking at me like he wants out. I don't trust him enough to let him run around with the other five yet, but he seems to be calming considerably. I'm not letting my guard down completely just yet, but I think that this might be a sign that he's not going to resort to acting so aggressively towards me anymore. Maybe he's giving me a chance to see a better side of him. c:
And for the record, I have not done anything different with him. No vet appointment, no change in diet, no change in his free-roaming time.