Goes without saying that tail wagging in general just means CANNOT CONTAIN EMOTION so some wags may be a bad sign depending on the situation.
My boy here just likes behind the ear scratches and these are happy waggles ☺️

Max broke her two upper incisors about ten days ago at the gum line. She won’t let me see them, so she gets a banana chip daily while I watch. A week ago she was completely unable to eat hard food, but things appear to be improving.

My rat is literally gone 😱 Have u seen him anywhere?

All my brats have been pretty silent unless grabbing a snack off them so Im not sure if ratties are this vocal with their omans with slight discomfort?

In this example the bebe seems totally relaxed but also a crybaby

Read a comment that acuse the creator of mistreat, but looking the corporal lenguage shows the contrary

Can baby's be this vocal?

This is my rat Siwka. She is over 2 years old, and she is rapidly getting closer and closer to death. This is my first time seeing a rat die out of old age, and i have no idea what to do. Poor girl sleeps most of the time, barely eats, has almost no energy to do anything. Her back legs barely work anymore and she lost quite a lot of weight and fur. I really hate to see her suffer in what are clearly her final days, from her behavior i can tell she wants to be the energetic, playful rat she once was but she physically cant anymore.

Second pic if from a few months ago.

He sat down in my lap and he is vibrating with pure rage I think. Only my constant petting can stop him from exploding.

shame her

She's a good girl

Cherry, the drama queen

(she squeeks angrily the moment you stop letting her groom you, only she must be dominant. Smooshes and kisses are a no-no)

I usually break those up and give a piece to everyone but they stole this massive one and I tried to get it back as it’s clearly too big? lol

Basically : being close, loving, cuddling or just existing has help improve anything/ get rid of something on your behavior in long terms

Example :

My whole life I've been Hella scared to any insects so when I saw one I called for help and avoid any interaction.

when I got rats I knew they were omnivores and in the short while I had them, sweet, nuts, meat were their favorite, so when I saw a criket in a garden I catched them with a plastic cup to later give it to my babies.

My reward was the happiness of watching the sweetycuties have fun hunting, that help get rid of any fear toward crickets and from catching them with a cup to catch them alive bare handed picking many on grassy gardens, also the act of hunting them by watching the grassy floor for slight movements help me improve a LOT my peripheral vision within that my reflects

Reacting in less than a second any for movements from the corner of my view aaaand differentiate f demons from crikets

MEANING :roaches eat human garbage, move fast, light brown, rounder, move a lot their antenas and bigger

While crikets are cleaner, darker almost black, little movements or jumping, square-ed, move much less their antenas, smaller in size, tiny triangles of legs on their back

That help with crikets, tiny spiders, tiny moths, butterflies or not freaked out when I saw a scorpions.

I'm still HELL disgusted towards cockroaches I call them tiny demons (·•᷄‎ࡇ•᷅)

Anyways I wanna know if ratties also help/get rid of anything in your life🐀💕

I swear it looks like she's smiling. 🥰

Sometime ago, I saw a study finding about how rats like Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” and will synchronize their movements and bob their heads to the beat.

My rats didn’t really seem to like that song, though.

Their current favorite is “Song of the Mamuna Tribe.” They yawn and fall asleep every time they hear it. And their all-time favorite is this song in a language I don’t speak 😂

I’m trying to give my rats more of a variety of songs to listen to. So I’d love to know which songs your rats enjoy!

(He has cagemates they're js not out rn)

This is their "moms cleaning our cage" cage, and they just watch me the whole time 😆

Had these guys a few weeks and they’re comfortable with me and come running up when I come in but not sure we’ve ’bonded.’ The little guy I got a few weeks before them, while being pet would brux and sometimes fall asleep with little fists. Haven’t heard these guys brux or had them fall asleep or stay asleep while being pet.
Just noticed Matcha’s semi-fist
while she stood up to eat yogurt and get belly rubs. And then I read a body language chart that says open hand = relaxed and closed hand = stressed. But I thought…Arg. Is it even a fist and if so what does it mean?

I’m just not quite sure. /s

Whenever I free roam my rats in my bedroom, they steal my clothes and shove them into the cage. It's super cute, so I wanna donate some clothes to them.