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| Question about Pets:Why does my rat chatter his teeth? |
This is called "bruxing". It's similar to a cat's purring. The emotional response is either excitement, contentment, nervousness, fear, or any other strong emotion, so you would have to observe your rat's body language to understand if the bruxing is pleasure or not.
You can "talk" back to your rat by also bruxing. Just keep your mouth closed and grind your molars together. In some cases this has pleased a rat so much that it goes on to eye-boggling.
Unlike other rodents who chew on hard materials to keep their teeth in shape, rats brux for the same purpose.
Eye-boggling is what happens when the rat really gets into bruxing, and this is definitely a sign of pleasure.
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