Little_Vixen
Senior Member
Not rescue as in keep, but help train him to someone over in Johnson City a few hours from us who said she would be able to take him.
He's a lil baby still, dumbo mismarked blue capped boy. His ears look SO big on him right now, it's frankly adorable.
Anyway, I went to Petsmart to check their toys because sometimes their stuff goes on closeout and I pick a few things up for cheap. I asked if they had any adoptables because they had one adult-sized male hooded in their rat tank. He said that they did, a boy they got in a few weeks ago who isn't SICK, but it looks like one eye is smaller than the other. Nothing else seems to be wrong with him besides that one eye always looks like it's squinting while the other is fully open and bright. The petsmart animal person I talked to said they had taken him to their vet 3 times to make sure he wasn't sick, but he can't be 'sold' because of this 'defect' so they are going to adopt him out. His adoption 'fee' is just signing a waver saying that you can't return him as if you bought him.
This is a picture of him (I have small hands) with his squinty-looking eye.
For those who have rats forever, do you think this is an issue? The boy is probably around 6 weeks I'd say because he's still itty bitty, but he's energetic, shy, a bit on the snuggly side. Didn't appear to be sick otherwise. Just one eye seems smaller than the other.
I realize that this also can cause possible issues later in this boys life, but most people don't know that Petsmart does occasionally do adoptions and I'd like to give this boy a chance at a good life, not sit in the back of petsmart forever.
So... what do you think? It's just his eye as far as they can tell (Mind you, Banfield vets can only do the simple stuff basically).
He's a lil baby still, dumbo mismarked blue capped boy. His ears look SO big on him right now, it's frankly adorable.
Anyway, I went to Petsmart to check their toys because sometimes their stuff goes on closeout and I pick a few things up for cheap. I asked if they had any adoptables because they had one adult-sized male hooded in their rat tank. He said that they did, a boy they got in a few weeks ago who isn't SICK, but it looks like one eye is smaller than the other. Nothing else seems to be wrong with him besides that one eye always looks like it's squinting while the other is fully open and bright. The petsmart animal person I talked to said they had taken him to their vet 3 times to make sure he wasn't sick, but he can't be 'sold' because of this 'defect' so they are going to adopt him out. His adoption 'fee' is just signing a waver saying that you can't return him as if you bought him.
This is a picture of him (I have small hands) with his squinty-looking eye.
For those who have rats forever, do you think this is an issue? The boy is probably around 6 weeks I'd say because he's still itty bitty, but he's energetic, shy, a bit on the snuggly side. Didn't appear to be sick otherwise. Just one eye seems smaller than the other.
I realize that this also can cause possible issues later in this boys life, but most people don't know that Petsmart does occasionally do adoptions and I'd like to give this boy a chance at a good life, not sit in the back of petsmart forever.
So... what do you think? It's just his eye as far as they can tell (Mind you, Banfield vets can only do the simple stuff basically).