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I am sorry this is going to be a long post but I want to describe her behaviors so you know what is going on cuz I am at my wits end! ???So Rose is 3 months old now and I've had her since she was 5 weeks. She's not really scared of me anymore like she used to be so I think we've made a lot of breakthroughs with our relationship. She doesn't really like to be pet yet though, so she may be independent or she may have not warmed up fully yet. But my problem is that she is extremely naughty. she is on a whole different level than my boys...of course she learned things secondhand from my boys which doesn't help things. But she's so naughty I can hardly keep up with adjusting my ratproofing to stop her destructive behavior. She's crazy acrobatic and can literally climb walls, cuz her nails grow like grass. She can climb my dresser, which used to be off limits along with my desk. I have stopped my boys from going on there for months but since I got her I had to just take everything off my desk and dresser and now allow them to play up there because I honestly can't stop them from getting up there anymore. I've tried so many things and I can't keep up. she gets around everything. She's so small she can fit under my radiator so i taped cardboard to stop that but she constantly is trying to get the cardboard off and get under it even though she will fry and die. She knows she isn't supposed to cuz she looks and me for a while before she tries to do it and then tries to get the cardboard off really fast. She also digs up my carpet in various spots in the room, like by my closet door so she can get in there to play. She was successful at that one night and I couldn't find her anywhere and i saw the carpet by the closet door was dug down to the wood with nails sticking up and shes so small she could squeeze under the door and get in the closet. I found her playing in there. So now I have to put things in every corner to stop her from digging up the carpet but she still tries to get past whatever i put there to block her or she finds a new place to dig. It's exhausting. She also poops on my floor all the time even though she is mostly litter trained at this point, probably 80% when she's in the cage. My boys do not poop on my floor and daisy will do it every once in a while, mostly if he doesn't feel good. I am honestly at my wits end with her. My Lily is so well behaved and laid back, he doesn't get bored so he doesn't get in trouble except an occasional corner digging problem that happens rarely now. Daisy was my naughty one before I got Rose and he's naughty cuz he's so smart he gets bored and finds things to do but he never digs my carpet or does destructive things. Just little annoying things. And the thing is that Rose knows she is being naughty and she is responsive to me and gettting better at being trained to come when called and things like that so when she misbehaves what happens is I yell at her and she actually looks at me and when I eventually get her to stop she runs over to me and climbs up on my shoulder to play with me. It's almost like she thinks I'm trying to be playful with her and doesn't realize shes in trouble. Or i guess she could be sucking up to me. What do you think that means? Does she know she is in trouble? And the hardest part is she is just so darn cute lol but i honestly just dont know what to do because her behavior is not correcting with age, it is worsening and my room is being destroyed to where I know at this point there's almost no chance I am going to get my deposit back. My boys had a few problems too when I moved in but they I was able to correct them with consistency and that's just not working with her. What do I do! I can't not let her out for playtime but it's making me want to just leave her in the cage cuz I don't want to deal with it. I hope Ratdaddy can comment on this post and give me some much needed insight on the situation.