return to main index
  mobile - desktop
follow us on facebook follow us on twitter follow us on YouTube link to us on LinkedIn
International Reptile Conservation Foundation  
click here for Rodent Pro
Mice, Rats, Rabbits, Chicks, Quail
Available Now at RodentPro.com!
Locate a business by name: click to list your business
search the classifieds. buy an account
events by zip code list an event
Search the forums             Search in:
News & Events: Herp Photo of the Day: Pine Snake . . . . . . . . . .  Herp Photo of the Day: Burmese Python . . . . . . . . . .  Bay Area Herpetological Society Meeting - July 25, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  Suncoast Herp Society Meeting - July 26, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  DFW Herp Society Meeting - July 26, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  Tucson Herpetological Society Meeting - July 28, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  Southwestern Herp Society Meeting - Aug 02, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  Greater Cincinnati Herp Society Meeting - Aug 06, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  St. Louis Herpetological Society - Aug 10, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  Kentucky Reptile Expo - Aug. 16, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  Colorado Herp Society Meeting - Aug 16, 2025 . . . . . . . . . .  Chicago Herpetological Society Meeting - Aug 17, 2025 . . . . . . . . . . 
Gargoyle Geckos , Chahoua Geckos 9 @ LLLReptile. Click HERE!
Free Nationwide Ground Shipping on All Frozen Food Orders Totaling $99 Or More at RodentPro.com!

RE: What about the big Syrian hamsters?

[ Login ] [ User Prefs ] [ Search Forums ] [ Back to Main Page ] [ Back to Feeder Food Discussion ]

Posted by: caz223 at Fri Dec 28 10:58:33 2007   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by caz223 ]  
   

Yeah, that's one of the things I love about rats, they are smart, they tame easily when very young, and once they are tame, they STAY tame.
If your rats are biting you, I would guess you bought them from a pet store and they were seperated from their mom too early and had no human contact until their eyes opened.
Seriously, if you want tame rats the easy way is to pick up a handfull of babies when the mom is distracted, and let the babies smell you for a few minutes.
If you do this a few times before their eyes open, you can pick them up when they're small but their eyes are open, and they will know you by smell, by sight, and know you won't hurt them, because they associate you with a communal mom, and you are their surrogate mom or dad.
If you try it with hamsters it wil make no diffeence, they have a short memory, but rats remember stuff like that, and will be tame with once a week cage cleaning type handling.

   

[ Hide Replies ]


>> Next topic:  Muti-Issues Just in time for the Holiday - blueselaphe, Fri Dec 21 12:02:54 2007
<< Previous topic:  Happy Holidays........ - diggy415, Wed Dec 19 22:17:51 2007