Degus are highly intelligent and are very easy to train. Instead, let your degus come out on their own. Repeat this step a few days until they naturally come up to your hand. The links below take you to pages with step-by-step instructions on specific, very useful training tasks. Let them sniff you. Degus are curious my nature and rather fearless. If they do this, give them a small treat. You will quickly see that this results in your degu choosing to come up to you more, and the others will learn that coming up to you means good (not bad) things happen to them. Let them explore. Place your open hand in the cage and let your degus come to your hand and sniff it. Learn to place their paws in your open hand. If a degu approaches you on their own, reward them with a treat. Some degus simply just don't like being cuddled or even touched while others might end up sleeping on your shoulder. At some point they will get used to you, and depending on your degus personality they are relatively easy to train. Learn to come to your open hand. How to train a degu? Following are the golden rules of training your degus, which no degu trainer should be without!