{"id":28503,"date":"2023-10-29T11:33:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T15:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/?page_id=28503"},"modified":"2025-09-30T12:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:22:56","slug":"rat-training-and-behavior","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/rat-training-and-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Rat Training and Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-background-position:left top;--awb-border-sizes-top:0px;--awb-border-sizes-bottom:0px;--awb-border-sizes-left:0px;--awb-border-sizes-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:50px;--awb-padding-bottom:50px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Mainely Rat Rescue has a Rat Behaviorist Volunteer!<\/p>\n<p>Sandy is a professional pet trainer with extensive experience training dogs, horses, and birds. As a foster for Mainely Rat Rescue, Sandy enjoys helping rats with behavioral challenges overcome their fears, thus preparing them for a happy forever home. She is now using her expertise in animal training and behavior for the benefit of other rat caregivers.<\/p>\n<p>Sandy offers online classes on a variety of rat behavior topics such as: the basics of handling, building trust, human-rat bonding, medicating rats, and working with rats who have behavior challenges (shy, fearful, and unsocialized rats, and rats with a bite history).<\/p>\n<p>Currently group sessions are only open to MRR fosters and volunteers, but private consultations for behavioral challenges are available to anyone. Group sessions on a variety of topics will be available to the public in the near future.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p><strong>Documents from MRR Rat Behaviorist Sandy M<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Introducing-Rats-to-Rats.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Introducing Rats to Rats<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bonding-with-a-new-rescue_Sept-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bonding with Your New Rescue Rat<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><p><strong>Videos from MRR Rat Behaviorist Sandy M<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PPR-cueaJq4?si=jFV73fAXRQbuRU4q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cage Setup<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/07ae99O5U5Q?si=uLdnsloBCG211FGc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What to Use &amp; Where to Find Items for Cage Setup<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wN2THTMjvJE?si=qvXXQ0KxS8umB8Wa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transport Container Method for Moving Fearful Rats<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oEZwvwIjAAo&amp;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ideas for Play Area<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\"><p>Please contact Sandy directly at mrr.sandym@gmail.com for more information, or if you would like to be included in mailings regarding future classes.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-background-position:left top;--awb-border-sizes-top:0px;--awb-border-sizes-bottom:0px;--awb-border-sizes-left:0px;--awb-border-sizes-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:3%;--awb-padding-bottom:2%;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28503","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28503"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34428,"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28503\/revisions\/34428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainelyratrescue.org\/rattieblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}