Intros - Completely Succesfull!

[jorats]

Can you do down the shirt trick with the two boys? That might help calm Mr. Pickles.

 

[adreabri]

Can you do down the shirt trick with the two boys? That might help calm Mr. Pickles.

Yeah i could do that. Should I skip the clicker session and just do the session?

 

[jorats]

For now, because you have a terrified Mr. Pickles, I would work on the socializing, then later work on the clicker with Sundae.

 

[adreabri]

Alright tonight I will try this. Not so sure ho this will turn out but we shall see lol

 

[hopefloats]

I have put the two i had problems with on a chair, in the middle of the room. Those two were so scared neither fought each other. I have also held the two on my lap because generally they dont act up on me. I have even sat on the floor with the two that are nutty and that helps as well. The chair though worked the best for my two girls.

 

[adreabri]

So tonight I've put them both down the shirt and Sundae was grooming Mr. Pickles... Very forcefully I might add but grooming lol. Maybe we will try this again tomorrow =D

 

[jorats]

Oh yes, keep doing it... If you can, do several short sessions, like 4 20 minute shirt sessions with them a day.

 

[adreabri]

I'm off work today so I will do that. Thanks so much for all your help!

 

[Godmother]

Good luck! This has given me all kinds of good ideas.

 

[KatTheHippie]

Oh how I love the shirt trick! It's so handy for socializing, and intro's.

 

[adreabri]

So this weekend went awesomely well with intro'ing my two boys. About every couple hours I would grab them and sit down and watch tv and they would just climb all over me lol. I have yet to try to go back to the table but we shall see... Tonight I am getting two boys so i thought I would start EVERYONE all together on the table and see how that goes? Hopefully well!!

 

[jorats]

So this weekend went awesomely well with intro'ing my two boys. About every couple hours I would grab them and sit down and watch tv and they would just climb all over me lol. I have yet to try to go back to the table but we shall see... Tonight I am getting two boys so i thought I would start EVERYONE all together on the table and see how that goes? Hopefully well!!

That's great! The very fact that you were distracted with TV really helps with the rats.
And yes, I agree, starting with everyone on the table is a good idea.

 

[adreabri]

Alright so I brought my new boys home tonight and decided to let everyone out on the table together and sundae was actually grooming Mr. Pickles and Mr. Pickles was relaxed and everything went well so I'm hoping to have everyone living together by the end of the week =D

 

[jorats]

Keeping my fingers crossed!!

 

[adreabri]

Guess who spent the night last night in the cage all squeaky clean!! Since I'm doing intros with my two new boys they had almost two hours out time on the table without one instance of puffiness hissing scratching biting or squeaking so we moved to the rat room and once again none of the above so I opened up the FN and everyone spent the night together! YAY I'm so happy!!

 

[jorats]

Awesome!!!!!

 

[kscanuck785]

YAY!!!!

 

[Godmother]

Congratulations! What great news to have everyone together.

 

[mamarat]

Congrats! that's great!