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Anonymous
Ah yes, I generally try to avoid petco/petsmart. :< It may take a long long time before your rats may get use to you, however, I don't believe it's impossible. You may have to start of slowly, letting them get use to your hand and you. You could first start off by putting your hand into the cage with some yogurt or baby food on your fingers, see if you can convince them to lick it off of you. Do a lot of hand feeding. (just a forewarning it may take awhile to do this because some rats are shy when trying new things) But, if this is the case, you can give this 'treat' in their normal food so they can get use to the food first, then move off to hand feeding them. Hopefully, after awhile, they will start to trust your hand more you and you can move off to touching them and holding them constantly until they are use to that. Then you can go further from there. One of my rats was very very shy when adopted her. It took nearly half a year for her to start acting friendly (and that with the influence of two other friendly rats!)
I do hope your rodents come around though. They are very rewarding pets.
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