Some rats learn this easily, some need a bit more training. As I have said before, rats are individuals. My husband and I got two baby rat sisters. We took them out of their cage each time together, he worked with the same one each time and I worked with the same one each time f...
Cages should be cleaned at least once a week in a home setting. Depending on the size of the cage, ventilation, and number of rats, cages may need to be cleaned more or less frequently. A rat cage should never smell, as they are very clean animals. If the cage smells, it is becaus...
Second, you can use live cage traps. Third, you can install a one-way funnel door exit on the primary rat entry/exit hole, if you have identified it. I have used all of these methods. I do care about being humane to all wildlife, but when it comes to rats, which breed incredibly...
Rat-human interactions Despite their reputation as dirty animals, these rodents actually practice good grooming and spend hours licking their fur to keep it clean. Unfortunately, that grooming doesn’t prevent them from carrying lice and fleas, which can transmit many serious diseases like typhus and...
Rats in a CageA corporate satire puzzle game. As a typical corporate rat, you manipulate your coworkers with coffee and gossip and take credit for their work in order to beat every level of a skill assessment test controlled by a cheeky AI that goes beyond the game window to stop you. ...
After being additionally exposed to alcohol access, either in the operant chamber under a fixed ratio 1 schedule ('Instrumental Exposure'), or in the home-cage ('One-bottle Exposure'), they were then trained under the seeking-taking chained schedule. After performance was stable, some seeking ...
I kept waiting for him to tell us that the rat issue is getting worse, that they are getting bigger, nastier or more numerous, or, alternatively, that our rat fear is an irrational sociocultural construct. But no. It’s just about rats. Rats all over the world.They are perceived in ...
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Providing what the experimental animal prefers (eg grids) will reduce stress, good for both experimental reliability and animal welfare. In the present study the rat's preference for different cages was registered and recorded by digital weights. This study showed that this relatively simple set-up...
The conditioning cage was lit for the duration of each session. The rats then received training for 3 days under a continuous reinforcement, fixed ratio schedule FR1 (i.e. each lever press was rewarded with one pellet) until they had earned 30 pellets or 30 min had elapsed. At this ...