I remember there was a conversation in this forum about training rats, but can't find it. So I started a new topic
I don't have a daily contact with any horse now, but since a few months I own some rats... for many reasons. One of them is that I found a very knowledgeable community of rat friends. From them I learned that rats can have pedigrees and be carefully bred to make them as healthy and human-friendly as possible. And to make them live a little longer...
Two of them are with me now.
Igor Happy Feet - standard, rex, lavender bareback: which means that his ears are straight up (they can also have dumbo ears, that are larger and lower, which makes the rat look even more funny than they are), his coat is curly and his head and neck and shoulders are light grey/brown. All this makes a cute rat
Tinto - standard, standard, albino: that means he has normal ears and coat and he's albino... because Tinto is a lab rat. He was lucky to be rescued after finishing tests (they are normally put down) and I adopted him. He was agressive at the beginning, castrating him helped a little but he still defends his territory and for this reason he can't live in the same cage with the other rat.
Here they are:
Of course we are clicker training
they learn to stand on a pedestal and jump over small obstacles (sort of mini cavaletti). They learn very quickly, although generally they prefer to have their own ideas about what to do. I also made an interview with a lady who trains her rats since a longer time (for my website/blog about all kinds of animals). I'm doing things differently (using less corrections in my training 
) and not so often, because most of the time they are just running around (me) and being cute. So here is something more to read: Agility Rats: interview with Marna Kazmaier.Hope you like them! And these tails are really not ugly