handmeafish
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My roomies have a cat and a dog, and they normally stay away from the rats, because I don't want the rats to get hurt.
I have however let the dog and cat check out ron, and i've let ron check them out, just in case something happens, I don't want the rats to be a surprise to the other animals.
Ron likes both the dog and the cat, and will try to play with them (its really cute) and he and Pucca (the dog, will play this chase game when ron's in the cage, Puca will run up to it, and stop, play bow, and run runs up the side of the cage, then puca sniffs him, runs off, and then ron runs in his house for a sec, waits for puca to come back, and they do it again. Also, Ron will try to grab puca sometimes when she is sniffing him.
When The cat was introduced (she's only about 4 months) Ron would run under her, then run back to me, sit in my lap, and flick his tail, and she would bat at him, then he'd run around in a circle, around the cat (who was mostly just confused) and run back underneath her, and back to me.
The babies however, are very nervous around the other animals. They are still pretty young, and I'm wondering if I should try to get them more comfortable with the other animals, or if its too stressful on them. I am not expecting them to ever want to be best friends like Ron was, but I don't want them to be scared if for some reason the cat shows up one day in my room and no one is home. And with the cat, I don't want the rats to be to exciting if she does one day end up alone with them.
I have however let the dog and cat check out ron, and i've let ron check them out, just in case something happens, I don't want the rats to be a surprise to the other animals.
Ron likes both the dog and the cat, and will try to play with them (its really cute) and he and Pucca (the dog, will play this chase game when ron's in the cage, Puca will run up to it, and stop, play bow, and run runs up the side of the cage, then puca sniffs him, runs off, and then ron runs in his house for a sec, waits for puca to come back, and they do it again. Also, Ron will try to grab puca sometimes when she is sniffing him.
When The cat was introduced (she's only about 4 months) Ron would run under her, then run back to me, sit in my lap, and flick his tail, and she would bat at him, then he'd run around in a circle, around the cat (who was mostly just confused) and run back underneath her, and back to me.
The babies however, are very nervous around the other animals. They are still pretty young, and I'm wondering if I should try to get them more comfortable with the other animals, or if its too stressful on them. I am not expecting them to ever want to be best friends like Ron was, but I don't want them to be scared if for some reason the cat shows up one day in my room and no one is home. And with the cat, I don't want the rats to be to exciting if she does one day end up alone with them.
