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I just adopted a 5 month old female japanese hooded rat and I've had her for about a month and she has been a complete doll!
She loves sitting on strangers shoulders and crawling around my lap when I am reading or watching tv and often she just passes out in the hood of my sweater!
I was keeping her in a ten gallon glass tank because I heard those were fine for rats but she seemed so bored and sad I got her a three level wire cage and she seems to love jumping around in it and climbing the walls and such!
But yesterday something was different....she was acting ridiculously hyperactive and literally bouncing off the walls. I took her out of her cage and let her sit on my shoulders where she usually just bundles up in my hair and relaxs but instead she was running back and forth as if she was in a panic!
I put her back in her cage and about an hour later I was sitting next to her cage and poked my finger in for her to sniff, like usuall. Sometimes she would lick my finger but thats all....but today she bit me! not horribly hard, just a little nibble, but it scared me because she has never bitten before!
Now when i try and get her out of her cage she runs and REALLY doesn't want to be held....Whats going on with my punkin?
please help!
She loves sitting on strangers shoulders and crawling around my lap when I am reading or watching tv and often she just passes out in the hood of my sweater!
I was keeping her in a ten gallon glass tank because I heard those were fine for rats but she seemed so bored and sad I got her a three level wire cage and she seems to love jumping around in it and climbing the walls and such!
But yesterday something was different....she was acting ridiculously hyperactive and literally bouncing off the walls. I took her out of her cage and let her sit on my shoulders where she usually just bundles up in my hair and relaxs but instead she was running back and forth as if she was in a panic!
I put her back in her cage and about an hour later I was sitting next to her cage and poked my finger in for her to sniff, like usuall. Sometimes she would lick my finger but thats all....but today she bit me! not horribly hard, just a little nibble, but it scared me because she has never bitten before!
Now when i try and get her out of her cage she runs and REALLY doesn't want to be held....Whats going on with my punkin?
please help!