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does anyone know what could be causing this? (attached images). For the past week we’ve been noticing open wounds on one of our male rats, we thought it might’ve been his cage mate bashing him so we separated him and for the first couple of days it seemed to be working, except tonight we’ve noticed new sores on him. The vet said that he could be itchy, I can confirm that he does not have mites, he hasn’t been introduced to anything new, all foods are the same and we haven’t brought anything new for his cage, there also isn’t anything sharp or anything that could harm him in his cage, and none of our other boys have anything like it and there all kept together. Just adding in that he’s completely the same other then this, he eats and drinks the same, and acts the same with us.
Edit; we put him back in with his cage mate just for a little while so he can still be social and the whole time he was frozen solid and didn’t want the other one anywhere near him,(squeaking, rearing, staying completely still etc.)when it was obvious that the other missed him, grooming, cuddling, ect.
Edit 2; I’ve read something about self harming in rats idk how true that is though.
Any and all advice is welcome and greatly appreciated, thank you
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Watch him carefully. Does he scratch there? The first pic looks like bite wounds the others look more like pyoderma (bacterial skin infection) it hurts and itches so they scratch themselves raw.
 
I agree, that looks like pyoderma. I would get a second opinion from a rat savvy vet. Also, I would do a mite treatment anyway. You can't see mites and it always gives a negative result when vets do a skin scraping.
 
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