Videos

Ronnie the Swinger!

Watch Ronnie having a good time swinging in one of the ‘coconut shells’!

Grooming

Watch below a video of Ronnie grooming.

Derek enjoying more scratching

Derek definitely enjoys a good scratch. Here he is having some in the recent hot weather.

Derek enjoying a stroke and a scratch

Watch below a video of Derek enjoying a stroke and a scratch, while he was sleeping outside of the cage during recent hot weather.

Garden exploration

Ronnie and Derek enjoy occasional supervised garden explorations! Watch a short clip of them exploring, below.

Feeling the heat

With the heat of the summer arriving, Ronnie and Derek inevitably started to feel extra warm for the first time.

Although rats don’t benefit from fans in the same way as humans (as they don’t sweat), Ronnie and Derek appreciated the cooling effect of a fan which had an ice pack attached to it and was blowing on their cage.

See a video of them reacting to the fan, below. Read more about them coping with the heat, including photos, here.

Clicking

Ronnie and Derek respond to a ‘clicking’ noise, as do many other animals, when they’re going to be fed a treat. Watch this below and see how excited they get when they hear the clicking!

Synchronised eating

Watch Ronnie and Derek busily and simultaneously eating a treat, then investigating the camera!

Human fighting

Ronnie and Derek enjoying play-fighting with each other (more info here), but have recently started to often roll on their backs in the cage when I go to pick them up, so I can ‘groom’ them in the way they groom each other while fighting. Watch a video of this below.

Food fight

Watch Ronnie and Derek having a food fight over a rat treat this afternoon!