okay here's the story(kinda long but necessary) yesterday morning i woke up and greeted my rats as usual and for the first time they both actualy ran up to the door to say hi instead of hiding on the shelf!! i was realy happy when i went to school. when i got home i did some homwork and stuff for an hour before going downstairs to play with my rats for a bit untill i had to go out to dinner for my younger sisters birhtday. i anounced that i was coming by making the usual sounds. when i went into my room they did not come to the door and where oddly cautios about smelling my hands and where a bit scared when i let them out of their cage to run around(they are not usualy as scared) instead of sitting on my shoulder or lap they made a tunnel/cave thing under my pillow and would not come out even when i tried to coax them out with a little piece of the doritos i was eating. when i had to go i put them back into their cage where they huddled up in their nest and stared at me.when i got back from the restourant about 2 hours later i watched tv for a bit then went downstairs to see if they wanted to come out and play but they where sleeping so i left them alone untill i later when i made their veggie and fruit dinner and came downstairs to feed them and go to bed. when i put the little dish of food into their cage they ran into the corner on their shelf and stared at me with what looked like terrified little faces. i thought i had surprised them or something so i closed the cage and sat on my bed(right beside the cage) to read for a bit. in the 2 and a half to 3 hours i sat there reading they did not move a muscle but sat there terrified and did not touch their food. i was confuzed because usualy they dig greedily into their food and spend a long time hiding the rest. so i took them out to see if their was something wrong and they both wher terrified to death of me they tried desperatly to get back into the cage so after examing them to see if somthing was visibly wrong(nothing was) i went to put them back and skittles was so desperate to get there faster she squirmed out of my loose grip on her(rain was sitting on my shoulder because she was to scared to move) skittle jumped 2 and a half feet through the air and onto the top of her cagebefore diving into her cage and sitting on her nest on the shelf and staring at me with huge terrified little eyes that just broke my heart
. so i put her sister back in with her and left them both alone. now i am sad and confuzed and have no idea what could have caused this or what to do now??????
please help me 