Agility.

tried some agility with the rats today.
I'm thinking Nixon will be the agility rat of this family, because Garbo has shown pretty clearly that she doesn't want to learn any tricks (other than the water thing.)
Garbo listens to me a lot more than Nixon and knows her name pretty well and what NO means, so it's not that one is less intelligent than the other, it's just kinda like they have different "priorities" when it comes to learning things. Nixon likes to ignore my commands outside of the cage but will learn tricks.

so I decided that Nixon could learn some agility. I set up a little course in the hallway and it went kinda...eh. Nixon (on purpose, actually, which makes it funny) knocked over the blocks that she was meant to jump over. she actually went up to them with her front paws and just burst through there. the second time though, she actually jumped over it so she got a treat. once, I got her to jump up on top of their little house and that was also worth a reward. we'll see how it goes. I should actually take them to the vet before any real training, so for now it's just kind of a fun activity to do around the house. I would like to get more serious about it, but we'll see. I doubt that's ever gonna happen since Nixon is so easily distracted and extremely stubborn and Garbo doesn't want to learn things like that :D