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Shadow The Rat - Rattrixs

The new official Shadow the Rat page - my prior page called "Shadow the Rat" was hacked, so I am starting over with this page.

I upload rat tricks daily, and have tutorials on my youtube channel (called Shadow the Rat)!

10/31/2026

Happy Halloween from me and my rats! Cracker is getting into the Halloween spirit with her pumpkin costume and Halloween sign - great job sweet (and scary :P) bean!
Want help with training your rats tricks? I have a rat training book available here! https://www.etsy.com/listing/1605480026/the-ultimate-guide-to-rat-training
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10/30/2026

Whew, I almost missed the timing for this years Halloween cage settup, but I made it just in time! I cleaned the girls cage yesterday and of course had to spruce it up with some seasonal decor - I still left a lot of the naturalitic stuff in because its just too much work to fully remodel the cage each time, but I changed up enough that the girls are really enjoying exploring and getting to know the new layout. Anyways I am very happy with how it came out - just one more day until Rattyween! 👻

10/30/2026

Coffee combining jumps with walking on a barrel! Coffee was just a young girl here, and crazy agile - now as a senior she isn't quite as quick, but she still enjoys her occasional agility time and rocks the barrel roll trick!
Want help with training your rats tricks? I have a rat training book available here! https://www.etsy.com/listing/1605480026/the-ultimate-guide-to-rat-training

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10/29/2026

Another clip from our last event showing Chickpeas favorite part, that being when a kid decided he didn't want his string cheese and generously donated it to the rats 😂 (He donated it while it was untouched in its plastic wrapper, so no worries, the rats didn't encounter any kid germs 😉)

10/29/2026

Pinto Bean is getting ever so close to using the big hoop without help! I may just give her a platform to help her when she plays with the bigger girls - I did that for Butter until she filled out some and it definitly helped even the odds. Also very happy to see Snickerdoodle loving the hoop so much that she also wants a turn!
Want help with training your rats tricks? I have a rat training book available here! https://www.etsy.com/listing/1605480026/the-ultimate-guide-to-rat-training

https://amzn.to/484u2Mv

10/28/2026

One of the weird things about Shrimp is that when possible, she will ONLY drink from water bottles, not bowls. Now she does know how to drink from a bowl (and I mean every rat knows that, that's just instinct lol), but if she knows she can get to a water bottle she will always seek it out instead. Its weird because my other girls use both bottles and bowls evenly and seemingly without preference, and during free-range in particular they tend to use the bowls vs the 1 water bottle I have out. But Shrimp? Nah, Shrimp has to be different and she is set on using her bottles!

10/28/2026

More work with Snickerdoodle and basketball training! I am so proud of how quickly she adjusted to the actual hoop, she was only the tiniest bit wary of it but quickly came around! Creme Brûlée did a great job being moral support, even if she did keep trying to score herself and managed to steal Snickerdoodle's shots a few times :P
Want help with training your rats tricks? I have a rat training book available here! https://www.etsy.com/listing/1605480026/the-ultimate-guide-to-rat-training

https://amzn.to/484u2Mv

10/27/2026

Ok guys, so you remember how I said Pinto Bean was playing at being a werewolf with her molts? Well...it turns out she actually is one, just with another coat added in 😅 (jury is still out on exactly what coat it is lol). I started getting suspicious recently after seeing her go through multiple symmetrical facial molts (this one was taken just 2 days after the eyebrow one), so I got some feedback from breeders who work with werewolf and the consensus is this girl is a werewolf after all.
So uhh, I guess Pinto Bean is the first dwarf werewolf (likely a mink one) of the Shadow the Rat group - and with Chickpea, Feta, and Shrimp also being there she is in good company! Of course I still adore this scruffy girl, its just funny she ended up being one of my favorite varieties (in multiple ways!) Also bonus shot of her and Chickpea at the end - I think those 2 are coordinating their molts lol

10/27/2026

Some ratsketball practice with Creme Brulee and Fruit Loop! Plus of course Chicken Soup came in for a few shots - she already had her training time but she wasn't about to let her sisters take the spotlight! :P
Want help with training your rats tricks? I have a rat training book available here! https://www.etsy.com/listing/1605480026/the-ultimate-guide-to-rat-training

https://amzn.to/484u2Mv

10/26/2026

Milk is such a cute cotton puff of a rat, she's so floofy and sweet and absolutely knows how to use her cuteness to get more treats (plus bonus Cracker lol)!

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