Grey_Whiskers
Well-Known Member
Hi folks,
I'm back to keeping ratties for the first time in a while and rather unexpectedly.
Normally I'm always one to keep ratties at least in pairs, but got a 'Grey, you take her or she's being killed today' call and luckily I still had most of my old supplies handy.
A friend of mine works at a pet shop and apparently they had one of the rats get out and go on a four day killing spree before being able to catch her. 10 dead/eaten hamsters and they said she had injured some of the other rats in the cage as well. She'd also bitten some of the employees.
The manager was very angry and essentially this girl was going to be killed today for reptile food. She was not getting any second chances...and I'm a softie. So here we are again. Cute little girl, about 3-4 months old---an agouti dumbo. She hasn't been aggressive towards me, just very shy, so that's a start.
She's alone now and might have to stay that way, at least in the interim. I'm trying to make that as tolerable as possible for her, I just hope she comes around soon so at least if she can never be housed with other rats again she won't be so lonely.
Thoughts/ideas to make the solitary life as good as I can for her? I know it's not ideal, but I'm still trying to figure out what to do for her.
I'm back to keeping ratties for the first time in a while and rather unexpectedly.
Normally I'm always one to keep ratties at least in pairs, but got a 'Grey, you take her or she's being killed today' call and luckily I still had most of my old supplies handy.
A friend of mine works at a pet shop and apparently they had one of the rats get out and go on a four day killing spree before being able to catch her. 10 dead/eaten hamsters and they said she had injured some of the other rats in the cage as well. She'd also bitten some of the employees.
The manager was very angry and essentially this girl was going to be killed today for reptile food. She was not getting any second chances...and I'm a softie. So here we are again. Cute little girl, about 3-4 months old---an agouti dumbo. She hasn't been aggressive towards me, just very shy, so that's a start.
She's alone now and might have to stay that way, at least in the interim. I'm trying to make that as tolerable as possible for her, I just hope she comes around soon so at least if she can never be housed with other rats again she won't be so lonely.
Thoughts/ideas to make the solitary life as good as I can for her? I know it's not ideal, but I'm still trying to figure out what to do for her.