Yesterday I was questioning myself about the intros. Why do I do this?
Today I got my answer. I opened up the cages and Meeko immediately started to popcorn. He was bouncing all over the place. Soon after, Gera was bouncing around with him and that’s with having Little Doc sitting next to them. Even with his bully attitude, it wouldn’t stop the fun. When doing intros the main thing to watch for is aggression. Aggression makes the other rats scared, skittish and stressed. So if you want to know how things are going, always look for the omegas, are they happy? Are they playing and paying no mind to the bullies? If so…then you know everything is going to work out just fine. During the hour, I had rats out in the open, running, playing and exploring. There was the odd scuffle but nothing majour. At one point Gera got upset because the master stasher Molly was diligently working at emptying out Gera’s dish. Molly would pop into the cage, pick up a block and carry it over to her cage and stash. Finally, I would stop Molly on the steps, grab the block and hand it back to Gera who was on her heels. He would promptly return it to his stash. It was such a great out time, even Rory was doing his version of the popcorn, the head binky… the happy Rory dance.
This is it… this is why I do this.
Have I mentioned how much I love rats?
Happy baby Meeko, it’s all about him.
