should i give my rat away?

Question
no matter what he is scared of me and when i try food or treats on my hand like they say he bites me i think hes inbred or something hes all blueish gray with a big white heart on his chest i have a smaller one named abbot and hes braver than my bigger one modest who i am asking help with and out of pain i cant help but scare them by rapid movement when he bites is there anything i can do to turn him into a nice normal rat? im beginning to think hes an ass and just hates me im close to giving him away .

Answer
No rat is an ass.  He is a rat that, by nature, is scared of people until he learns to trust.  Rather than be inbred, he was probably not socialized properly as a baby.  Baby rats should be handled from birth on so they are not scared of people.  Its not his fault.  


I trained a wild rat (she was a baby but had one nasty bite behind her!) and I was determined to make her nice.  After a week of working with her, she learned to trust me and was the best rat I ever had.

I need to know what you do when he bites, what is it your doing, trying to pick him up or does he just run up and bite you out of the blue?

What you need to do is setup a special play area for the rats and make it secure by making a cardboard wall (instructions and photos on my website) open the door and allow them to come out and play in their designated play area.  Do NOT try to pick the biter up at all. Forget the treats for now, too, until I know when it is he bites you.

Let me know about his diet as well. DO you keep food down for them all the time or feed them on a schedule?

I dont like to hear when people give their rats away. I hate to say this but once you take the responsibility on of owning a pet, you get what you get and learn to work with it best you can. Biter or not, hes yours now and I fear his life may be worse elsewhere, making him even more shy and scared since he will have to learn all over again and be taken from what he is already learning to be his home.  How does he do with his cagemate?