I am just curious how much time in a day that you devoted to bond with your rattie. I work all day and my time to spend with Daxter is only a little bit in the morning and after I get home at night and weekends.

I just want to be able to bond more with him, right now he just being affectionate with me when he gets up in the morning and when I get home, after that he just hang out in his bed and sleeps. I just want to encourage him to be more playful with me when I am home and needs advice on how to encourage him to do so and being comfortable around me.

What kind of game do you usually plays with your rattie. Daxter loves treats, that's the only time that he will hang out with me, but when he realize he doesn't get any, he just walk out on me.

Thanks!

I'm gone for about 10 hours a day during the week at work.... so I get up about 7:00 and bond with the babies for an hour or so.... get home around 6:00 and bond with them all night. ALL of them also sleep with me, so I guess that's bonding time, also.

I work 9-6 also and I have the "short" hours of our house as Guy leaves at 6am and gets home after 7pm. I get up around 7am and the first thing we do is go for a walk at least 30 min usually more, I feed them and get ready and then I have a half hour so I watch TV and they just hang out. On real nice mornings we go outside for the extra half hour. When I get home from work we walk again at least 1/2 hour again. We train some nights, some nights we don't. When I cook they hang out and then afer dinner is playtime. Guy or me gets their stuffed animals out and we PLAY!! That usually gets them running around the house like crazy!! About 8:30-9:00 we lay to watch tv and sometimes they keep playing sometimes they come  to get belly rubs! Good luck, I think spend as much time as you can walking, playing or just keeping Daxter interested.

I forgot I get to go home for lunch so I force them outside from 2:10-2:40 to get some air, otherwise they would just sit in the house with me!!

Monica, are you in an area that you can take Daxter for a walk? thats a great way to bond and tire them out!!

Val, I take him for a walk twice a day actually around my neighborhood, about 20 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes after I get home. He actually get about almost 2 hours walk each day, I have a dog walker come midday to walk him and take him out to pee. On the weekend we go to the dog park and I let him run loose and he loves it. Here is the funny thing, in the dog park when I said Daxter "come" he will come running to me, but at home when I said "come" he just look at me. I think he needs more training and I am being lazy lately. I am thinking to put him in obidience class, still researching which one is the best one.

This would be Sally's bonding time schedule!  She is very vocal (as in making little whines, yips, etc) about her playtime and if she doesn't think she's getting enough attention, she gets right in your face about it.

I get up with my daddy around 5:30.  He takes me outside and then  I hightails it back to bed with Momma and do the squirming/wiggly thing all over the bed until I have my head on Momma's pillow and then I wash Momma's face.  Now that Momma is awake...we have cuddle/play/tummyrub time for about 40 minutes.  Momma gets up and then we run around the house like a crazy dog bringing all our toys to Momma.  Daddy chases me around the living room trying to get my kong (I don't really care if he gets it, I just like him to chase me) and when he gets it, Momma puts NUMMMIES in it.  But there's just one thing...I can't have it until just before Momma and Daddy leave .  When Momma & Daddy come home, I go outside to play frisbee with Daddy, then inside to have my dinner.  Then Momma takes me for my walk.  Or should I say I take Momma for a drag race around and around and around.  Once we get home, I talk and talk and talk until someone continues to play with me until I'm all tired out, then I cuddle up next to Momma and go to sleep.