Haven't done it yet with these guys, but all my previous rats were up for a game (some even invented some, like RatBertha with Jeanne (my ex-wife) and her chair in the morning) as long as they were fully awake -- However, I try to make a point of giving them a treat once they are back in the cage (sometimes makes it easier to get them back in the cage when they are exploratory females) -- It's very frustrating right now to not be able to make any "food" noises to signal that treats are on deck!
RatBertha was the best game rat so far -- If I ran up and down the stairs, she would bound along beside me -- When Jeanne gave me a tiny key-chain pump squirt gun for Christmas one year, as the little kid I am, I started squirting RatBertha with it and she started ducking around corners and then peeking back -- We would chase each other around the house for a while -- She was also very content to go out in public on my shoulder, surveying her domain like a Pasha in one of those fancy elephant-back carriers -- I had her wearing a red scrunchy around her neck one Christmas season as we all toured some outdoor markets.
Age 67 1/2 Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05 Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08 Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08 Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06 Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08) Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08) On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.