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 Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:31 pm
My two ratties wrestle quite a bit. Sometime one of them squeaks really loud and it frightens me. Are they still just playing? They are both girls by the way.
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:02 pm
The general rule is: "No blood, no foul!"
As no one is seriously bleeding, they are fine. Mine still wrestle and squeak loudly too.
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Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 3:48 am
Before Daisy passed away my other girl Houdini would pick fights with her all the time because she was younger .
The only time I got really worried is when there was ALOT of squeeking and she'd have Daisy pinned and going for the throat/belly . But like Zenia Wulfe said no blood , no foul.
But it couldn't hurt to check in on them on occasion .
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Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 12:05 pm
Mine two rat sisters do that all the time. as was said, its a general rule; no blood, no foul. as long as they're not hurting each other, they're just fooling around wink
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Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 5:10 am
I've got 2 brothers and all they do is wrestle and squeak. As long as there are not going at each others throats or tummy's its ok. Every once in a while I find scabs but thats due to their little nails. Usually they're just playing or power grooming.
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Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:50 am
I have a couple of whiners who like to squeak at the drop of a hat. I also had to go through a very long intro phase (involving having to stop lots of real fights) when I got my current alpha, because she is a big bully. So my own rule is no raised hackles & no screaming, no foul. There is a very big volume difference between a scream and a squeak. The raised hackles (and posturing) are a dead giveaway.
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Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 6:43 pm
I agree with everyone else, sounds like just good fun :p my female rats never wrestle though, just chase each other o.O I've only had my male rats wrestle all the time. Odd.
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Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:54 pm
With the pinning- that is also a sign of showing dominance over the other. Mine would do this all the time, till finally Spirit got so tired of it she drop-kicked her sister, Shadow down the ramp of the cage. Shadow never tried to show dominance again..lol. Again, no blood, no foul.
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 9:23 am
I used to freak when my girls wrestled too. But when I went to check on them, they would always be like "What mommy? We just cleaning eachother." in a caught in the act way. xp
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Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 6:18 pm
Ok good. Thank you guys. I am still going to worry over them of course, but in a less paranoid way. Lol.
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