I have found myself to be a new mother of another rat. I successfully raised a domesticated baby rat, babykins. She stills lives with me, and in fact will be celebrating her 2nd birthday next month. Now my new little guy, who is also a domesticated rat, was unfortunate and was destined to be fish food. My mothers co-worker has a large-mouth bass. The bass swallowed and spit out the poor, little guy three times! Knowing my family keeps rats, he have him to us.
Now here's the problem. When presented with food, either bottle or dish, he goes super crazy, like he's been starved for days. He then goes into a trance, acting like he's suckling on his mom, except there's nothing there to suck on. I'm worried he may suck in too much air, and become bloated.
I've had him for 10 days now, and estimate he's around 22-24 days old. I feed him every couple of hours, and have one nightly feeding. My past orphan rat I mentioned above never did anything like this durin her kittenhood.
I wanted to know if anyone else had any problems like this. Is there anything I can do for him to make him stop? Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks for reading
Now here's the problem. When presented with food, either bottle or dish, he goes super crazy, like he's been starved for days. He then goes into a trance, acting like he's suckling on his mom, except there's nothing there to suck on. I'm worried he may suck in too much air, and become bloated.
I've had him for 10 days now, and estimate he's around 22-24 days old. I feed him every couple of hours, and have one nightly feeding. My past orphan rat I mentioned above never did anything like this durin her kittenhood.
I wanted to know if anyone else had any problems like this. Is there anything I can do for him to make him stop? Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks for reading
