aliandneil
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Hello,
Urgent help needed with rat aroma please.
We are new to keeping rats, have had our two boys for a couple of months now. Got them at around 6 weeks old and they have been thriving and grown rapidly. They have a good size two storey indoor enclosure with plenty of toys and my daughter loves them and handles them daily, getting them out to run around her bedroom.
Their enclosure used to be in my daughters bedroom all the time but they are too noisy at night, play fighting and squeaking, so it is moved onto our landing at night.
Our big problem is their aroma. My daughter has become nose blind to them, but my husband and I smell them and it is intolerable to my husband, who has a strong sense of smell.
In their enclosure they have recycled paper bedding/litter from pets at home in a “litter tray” which one of them is good at using, the other one goes anywhere.
There is a hammock and fluffy tube that they love sleeping in.
In an attempt to neutralise the aroma and disinfect we are cleaning with diluted white vinegar every day (as per videos on YouTube) and changing the soft bedding every few days, but it is just not helping. You only have to get half way up the stairs and you can smell them in my daughters bedroom.
Please can anyone advise us how to stop this aroma, it is causing major problems.
Thank you in advance.
Urgent help needed with rat aroma please.
We are new to keeping rats, have had our two boys for a couple of months now. Got them at around 6 weeks old and they have been thriving and grown rapidly. They have a good size two storey indoor enclosure with plenty of toys and my daughter loves them and handles them daily, getting them out to run around her bedroom.
Their enclosure used to be in my daughters bedroom all the time but they are too noisy at night, play fighting and squeaking, so it is moved onto our landing at night.
Our big problem is their aroma. My daughter has become nose blind to them, but my husband and I smell them and it is intolerable to my husband, who has a strong sense of smell.
In their enclosure they have recycled paper bedding/litter from pets at home in a “litter tray” which one of them is good at using, the other one goes anywhere.
There is a hammock and fluffy tube that they love sleeping in.
In an attempt to neutralise the aroma and disinfect we are cleaning with diluted white vinegar every day (as per videos on YouTube) and changing the soft bedding every few days, but it is just not helping. You only have to get half way up the stairs and you can smell them in my daughters bedroom.
Please can anyone advise us how to stop this aroma, it is causing major problems.
Thank you in advance.