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Came home from a week out of town to find that my mom did not alert me that the rats were getting sick. Our vet(not a brilliant rat vet, but tolerable) is awesome and does 24 hour med refills but it seems like every time we get these meds, the concentration is different, and I'm concerned enough...

So, trying not to panic here, but we definitely fed our fuzzers frozen veggies from the current massive Listeria recall list. =( And they were straight from the freezer, so no heating to kill it. The only symptom on the list I've seen that would be visible in a rat is diarrhea, so I guess we...

Hi all, MomRat here. I know I've been gone a long time. Life is hard, depression is hard, working 3 jobs is hard. However, things are looking up! (Despite the fact that we are without ratties for the first time in 6 years, sadness) DadRat is finishing his degree in December and we will be moving...

It's Back! Rescue Scraps for Rescued Rats!!! From now until December 1st, every Liner and Hammock order at MomRat Magic Fleece Liners sends Rescue Scrap Hammocks to a Rescue. Every $10 spent will send a hammock, patchworked together from my scraps and bits and pieces. Hammocks Gifted in this...

We've had our ears out for a few weeks looking to bring some boys back into our home; with the loss of Gregory we just have the girls and we need some cuddlers, plus the cage is wayyy too empty. :giggle: Finally settled on some hand-raised ooops litter babies, we're getting them tomorrow...

...or, how to stash your lab block without moving a single piece out of the bowl. This is Luna: This is Luna's food bowl: This is the basket of "forbidden" fleece: This is how Luna "stashes" her blocks: This is why her nickname is Lunatic. Please note, her sisters assist in this...

So, I was careless. I pulled the flower I had tucked behind my ear and set it on the table beside the couch, and a few minutes later I heard the girls fighting in their little out-time house on the couch. I broke up the fight, and grabbed what they were fighting over - the stem from my flower...

So, I woke up this morning to Nimmel being super sneezy. And she's normally a dry sneezy girl, but it was constant enough that I rattyphoned her, and her breathing is a little whistly and her sneezing was just a bit squeaky. Of course, since I got her and her sisters out to play on the bed, she...

So, we've given up on intros between Gregory and the 3 crazies. Previous thread if you're interested: viewtopic.php?f=22&t=23386 The three girls are almost 9 months now, I think, and well recovered from their spays. They are living in the top half of the CN, Greg in the bottom happily hiding...

So, earlier this evening, I heard a noise from the cage I had never heard before. There was no fighting or scuffling going on, and all of a sudden a squeal, a long, high-pitched eeeeeee sound, never heard anything like it, not through intro fights, or Greg getting his ear sliced open, or...

So, we're not really sure of our new girlies age, the rescue guessed them at 4-5 months Jan.1. However, we've noticed in the last week or so that Jayden has been undergoing some color shifts in her fur, and wondered if that might help pin down an age? Also just curious as to what we call her...

Wow, how have we never had an entry in this realm of the forum? I'm not going to go back in time to cover all our previous rats right now, but I do want to introduce you to our new trio, our first girlies! We adopted them from Huron Valley Rat Rescue, and they are all already spayed, Woot! They...

The answer any of us would give to the question: What do I do if I have a single rat? is, get them a friend. The easy answer. Someone of a similar age, hormonally reduced by castration, perhaps of the opposite gender, if they are getting older. Some rats are a "rats rat" and just want ratty...

So, I have a quandary I never expected. Just with our January sales this year, we have ALREADY made enough profit to potentially be required by US law to pay taxes on our 'sole proprietor home business,' next year when 2011 taxes roll around. Has anyone dealt with this, US or Canadian? Etsy is...

So, we're getting three new baby girls tomorrow( :joy: :dance: :panic: ) These will be our first ever girls, and the first babies we've had since our first pair of rats almost 3 years ago, when EVERYTHING about rats was new. I haven't decorated a cage for kids that can CLIMB for at least 8...

We're getting our little girls one week from today(eep! so excited!) and, after having 4 boys that were easily trainable to stay on the couch/in their cage, period, we're expecting a new learning experience in the realm of free ranging. So, I finally found a coroplast distributor here in...

Cause I need a laugh this evening: http://www.viddler.com/explore/cheezburger/videos/887/

So, I'm getting my hair SERIOUSLY cut in about two hours, and thought I'd share, cause I'm excited. Here's the before pics, taken last night by david: So yeah. Check back in a bit for the dramatic conclusion!

Update: As I will be out of town after Nov. 17th, the cutoff date for this project has been changed to Nov. 16th. If you would like to purchase from MomRat Magic Fleece Liners in order to send rescue scrap hammocks, please do so BEFORE November 16th! Thanks for all your support! Ok, now that I...

Has anyone seen this: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 135034.htm My biggest wonder is, with all this research done to be applied to people, would they ever make this treatment available to pet rats, or is it prohibitively expensive/experimental?