Rats can learn many tricks. This is only a brief summary of tricks they can learn. It is not finished so please come back soon and please bear with me. Come up with your own ideas, be creative.

Come when called

This trick should be one of the first ones you teach your rat. When your rat gets use to you teach it that you are a safe place for it to go. When you rat is exploring sit a little ways away from it. After it, starts to venture off call it back to you. You can also make some kind of a sound for them to hear also. A training clicker from pet shops works well. When they do come back to you reward your rat with attention and a treat. Soon it will begin to realize that when you call its name and make the special sound, you want them to come to you. They will also know that a treat is involved. This trick should be fairly easy for your rat to learn. It is a good trick to teach because if your rat did get lost you could call its name and help your rat find safety. Use patience and plenty of treats and your rat will be a pro in no time.

Walk on a tight rope

For some rats, this trick is not one of easiest to teach. What you need to teach this trick is a rope, which should be pretty thick. Take the rope and tie it between two chairs or any other items that might work. Although rats usually do not fall, I put a pillow underneath to keep the rat safe if she were to fall. Now take you rat and put her near the finish point. Take a treat and try to get her to follow it. After she learns from that point well, try putting her a little farther back. After some time, your rat should be to do this trick well. If your rat is stubborn as does not want to do, it try to be patience. This should be fun for your rat so you might want to take her of and try again later.

Walk on Hind Legs

This trick is fairly easy to teach because of your rats natural ability to stand on its hind legs to reach something. First take a treat and place it over your rat's head. Your rat will smell the treat and should immediately stand up for it. When it does give it the treat. Next time you could try the same thing only move it, just a bit so they have to reach for it. When they do, let them have it. Each time move the treat just a little bit more. They will have to take a step to get. After a while they will be able to walk a couple of steps on your command. One little piece of advice; if you try to move the treat too far when your rat stands up, your rat might go down on all fours, walk a little, than stand back up. This usually means you are advancing to fast. Go back a few steps.

Obstacle course

This is one of the most fun tricks to teach your rat. To make an obstacle course, come up with your own ideas. This is an example you can teach your rat to do. Go up a ladder, through a tunnel, pull a drawer open, get the doll out from the drawer, bring the doll through the tunnel(or over), down the ladder, and into a box. This could be called your rescue mission. The rat saves a girl in a drawer. Sounds hard? Not really. You only need to remember a few things.

First when you start to teach the obstacle course teach it backwards. So if you were to use the example above, you would teach the rat to carry the doll (make sure it is small enough for your rat to carry) and place it in the box. When it does this well you can go on to the next step. Now have your rat carry the doll down the ladder and into the box, and so on. Soon your rat will have this trick mastered, so create a new obstacle course. Be creative, and have fun.