Yeah. I never got further than getting mine to come to me semi-reliably, and these do agility courses like dogs with the spinning and the weaving and the jumping on command. And I can't even begin to imagine how you'd go about teaching a rat to drag a teddy bear up with a rope. Even fetch seems incredible, even though I've seen videos how that is accomplished step by step and have had that trick explained in a rat book.
Maybe female rats are more into this than male, they are said to be more hyper (the one time I had female rats not males they were running around more enthusiastically into older age from what I recall), while males get bigger and lazier. I've mostly picked males as mine despite their pee marking issues because they are said have less destructive tendencies (though mine always gnawed their fair share but nothing too extreme for rodents). Seeing those tricks it might be that they are like border collies, and really need an occupational program to channel their energy.
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Maybe female rats are more into this than male, they are said to be more hyper (the one time I had female rats not males they were running around more enthusiastically into older age from what I recall), while males get bigger and lazier. I've mostly picked males as mine despite their pee marking issues because they are said have less destructive tendencies (though mine always gnawed their fair share but nothing too extreme for rodents). Seeing those tricks it might be that they are like border collies, and really need an occupational program to channel their energy.