"The Complete Guide to Rat Training" by Debbie Ducommun The Rat Fan Club - $18.00 Product Description: Rat Training is more than just a book on "how to teach your rats tricks." While it does explain the basics of training, and how to teach your rat 41 tricks, it also gives you tips on how to read your rats' body language and behavior, and explains what similarities between us facilitate a close bond. It discusses scientific experiments that illuminate the rat's intelligence, including their ability to think, dream, count and add, and tell apart different human languages, giving dates when a topic gained media attention. It talks about how rats are used in education, including the Xtreme Rat Challenge, formerly known as the Rat Olympics. This book also includes tips and anecdotes gathered from interviews with professional animal trainers, including the famous "Rat Man" who trained the rats for the original movie Willard. It also includes information on how rats are trained for live performance shows, such as a recycling show where the rats put different objects into the right recycling bin. It explains how rats were trained to pull wires through the conduits of schools to help hook computers up to the internet. Rat Training also includes instructions for practical behavior training, such as litter box training, introducing new rats, and overcoming a rat's fears. In addition, there is a chapter on activities, such as games, mazes, and obstacle courses, that can be taught to rats just for fun or for science projects. RattyRat's Review: I've been waiting for this book for a long time and it's awesome! This is a great book to learn from, and it teaches so many tricks! If you want to train your rats to do cute tricks, you want this book!