Hi, this gonna be long post. You can judge me all you want, but i am in situation where i can't afford taking my boy to the vet.
One day i came back from shopping, wanted to take out my rats to free roam and noticed that one of my boys looks really bad. I did forgot to take pic or video of that, but my neighbours rat looked exactly the same right before death...So i assumed that it is time for him(he was sick from when he was a baby, he has chronic respiratory indection, he is deaf) and he is getting old. I don't know how to explain but he looked like a bike run him over, sides sucked in, waking funny, falling or stretching? On the sides, ass up and walking on tip toes. So i was thinking that was the last of his hours.. hold him and when i was petting him he seemed calmer and not so in pain i guess.
But he didn't die, next day he was stil sucking his sides in but it wasn't as bed. But his stomach was big and hard, i felt lump in his right side, i gave him pain medicine, and a bit of baby gass drops. Gave belly massage and when i pressed on one part of stomach the toot came out. Noticed that then he tried to poop but poop was really dry. Did gave him medicine to loosen up his stool, and did massage his belly in warn water(which he enjoyed). He did bigest S**t i ever seen a rat do. I don't know if i should attach the photo? But there was green stuff in there. I tried to see if it is hard but no, it was strange texture and squishy, tried to break it apart and inside was pale blue stuff that looked like compressed tissue paper...and really huge..
So now he is back to normal, he doesn't show any signs of pain, he is back to being very active boy, back to eating and pooping normally. But his stomach is still hard and a bit round.. not sure if that just how it has to be or there is still something wrong with him. He is acting normal.
One day i came back from shopping, wanted to take out my rats to free roam and noticed that one of my boys looks really bad. I did forgot to take pic or video of that, but my neighbours rat looked exactly the same right before death...So i assumed that it is time for him(he was sick from when he was a baby, he has chronic respiratory indection, he is deaf) and he is getting old. I don't know how to explain but he looked like a bike run him over, sides sucked in, waking funny, falling or stretching? On the sides, ass up and walking on tip toes. So i was thinking that was the last of his hours.. hold him and when i was petting him he seemed calmer and not so in pain i guess.
But he didn't die, next day he was stil sucking his sides in but it wasn't as bed. But his stomach was big and hard, i felt lump in his right side, i gave him pain medicine, and a bit of baby gass drops. Gave belly massage and when i pressed on one part of stomach the toot came out. Noticed that then he tried to poop but poop was really dry. Did gave him medicine to loosen up his stool, and did massage his belly in warn water(which he enjoyed). He did bigest S**t i ever seen a rat do. I don't know if i should attach the photo? But there was green stuff in there. I tried to see if it is hard but no, it was strange texture and squishy, tried to break it apart and inside was pale blue stuff that looked like compressed tissue paper...and really huge..
So now he is back to normal, he doesn't show any signs of pain, he is back to being very active boy, back to eating and pooping normally. But his stomach is still hard and a bit round.. not sure if that just how it has to be or there is still something wrong with him. He is acting normal.