Last year I took a psycology class and part of it was training a rat to climb ropes, go through mazes and and push a lever to get pellets. I can tall you that my Loki was so adorable, first day I got her she climbed all over me and hide in the sleeve of my lab coat. She loved the sprinkles we used to train them and she was the fastest climber in the entire department. I would still have her but she developed a tumor on her side and I had to put her to sleep because it had dotten about the size of a baseball and she couldnt walk. But before that I had her in a 40 gallon aquarium with a homeade mess wood top, she was such a high jumper she would knock the lid off and get out so I had to put a book on it. I can say that the best food to train them with is sprinkles, they love sprinkles. They are very intelligent and loving. She used to cuddle with me on my pillow when I watched tv, she didnt even mind my cats and dog.
I would definitly get a rat instead of a mouse, they are easier to catch and can be trained faster and love to play, but if you want it to play in a wheel you have to start them out with one in there cage and put it in there every once in a while so it knows what to do, also you have to be careful with white rats because they have a tendancy to develop both tumors and cancer. But they are sooooo cute and easier to catch and if you call it by its name all the time it will come to you, even if its hiding under the bed. The males suck they are slower cuz they are bigger and their ba**s are too big for their bodies and they look funny. =P
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