Retraining, splitting the group, Changing group dynamic

Re: Advice please-REtraining

They look very happy and playful! I wish my boys were that energetic lol they are big lumps most of the time but occasionally run around and wrestle eachother as well as myself. They are sooo lazy XD

Sounds like she dumped them on you D: Doesn't seem fair to me. It's really up to you if you can keep them, or if you want to keep them. You can always try rehomeing them or finding a rat shelter to take them in. But they look so happy with you and don't seem that bad from the video. With work I'm sure that biter will calm down. They don't really look all that fat to me. Their cage is probably messy cause they are not used to comming out and might calm down if given play time everyday.

A snipped male with six females would be fine. I suppose the big thing is considering if your ready for challenging rats, if you have enough room for them, and if you have the finances for them. Ultimately it's your decision.

It really depends on the rat. Keep in mind what you quoted was studying wild rats and mostly males. So that is a worse case/ most feral scenerio seen in the most agressive circumstances. Females pretty much all tend to be bettas from what I have read. They do have alphas within themselves but they have the betta style personalities, laid back and not really caring where they fit in the pack as long as they are in.

I'm currently trying to figure out who to neuter. I think that is a whole other thread in itself (and my threads tend to not ever have anyone help me out through D but it's causeing me to evaluate pack dynamics. I know who the alphas are but I'm debating whether to neuter the strong and good alpha and/or Bert who has fear agression and is the alpha in another cage and would potentially be the omega if everyone was together.