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Just wondered what other people would treat an abscess with. I've got another thread for Alice but I wanted to ask this separately. Her abscess has now opened and the smell is really horrible :sick2: It's not a gaping wound as there's pus there if that makes sense. What antibiotics do you /...

I noticed the rattie pictures on the forum board index page (the announcments bit), how are the pictures picked? They're adorable though.... great idea.... :heart:

I know there's not much anyone can say but I absolutely hate being in this situation :sad3: :sad3: On Monday morning, Alice is getting PTS. She has a tumour just above her girl bits / beside her leg. It's absolutely massive..... I've never had a rattie with a tumour as big as Alice's is...

*edit, broken link* Asking for someone else. Does it look like a hernia / a cyst?

Yesterday we went and picked up Clara. I saw an advert on a free ad site, advertising 2 boys and 1 girl. In the picture they were all sitting in the cage, on the shelf, together... so they had obviously been together recently. I emailed them and asked if they would consider giving her away for...

Haven't posted in a while but I still come on and read threads everyday, hope everybody is well. :) I saw an advert for "free female rats" yesterday and got in touch... this person had been trying to sell them on the free ad site for weeks/months now and had no interest... so she decided to...

Haven't posted in a while but just wondered if anyone had any advice at all. Lizzie is about 5 or 6 months old.... we didn't get her that long ago. When she came to us she was snuffly and had been kept on sawdust. Today she seemed a it unwell, didn't do anything during playtime (very unlike...

I've been looking to get a small group (3-5) of baby girls for a while now... to introduce to one of my pairs, Buckie (neutered boy) and Jessica. They lost all of their rattie friends/family and they are just not happy together. I check my local free advert site everyday but there's been...

Just wondered if anyone knew what this is on Buckie :-/ He's had it for about a week, we thought be ringworm but we're not sure. He has been at the vets (it was a new vet that we haven't seen before), she said to start with that it did look like ringworm and then she said that she didn't think...

Is it just me or is this definitely not a boy? I thought the nipples were obvious but the owner isn't completely sure.

I know we shouldn't laugh. :laugh4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GRSbr0EYYU Hope nobody finds it offensive at all.

At the start of the year (9 months ago exactly) we had what seems to have been Sendai virus. :( Anyway then, we decided that we wouldn't take any more ratties in until all the current ratties (that had been here when we had the virus) were gone. My question is, once the virus is gone - is that...

My mum came back from walking one of our dogs today and told me I had to bring my camera and see the field. To start with you can't see anything, just looks normal, but when you look closer you can see that there were webs all over it. Hard to explain exactly, so I'll just post the pics. The...

Yesterday my sister told me she thought Rians mouth looked 'weird'. She is holding it open at one side. I can't get a good enough look, it looks like one took is maybe broken (but looks okay), the other one is about the same size as the other one but one side of it has kept growing and looks...

On the 7th of October we lost Seth :( He had been completely fine the previous day. Eating, drinking, playing with his brothers. Late the night before I'd put them into a smaller cage while I cleaned their main cage and his brother Casper was annoying him as usual. The next morning we found him...

My cat Roxy has brought back a baby shrew. I've given the little thing some hay right now. I think its eyes are still shut, not totally sure though. Do you think if they are I should try feeding it lactol? :? That's what websites I found suggested but I don't want to harm it at all...

:( Last year we took in a male and a female in a hamster cage. The person told us they had been together for "months" and she wasn't pregnant, but she was clearly pregnant when she came to us and soon had a litter of 11. Teal is one of the babies, she's only 15 months but I'm 99% sure she has...

I don't know if anybody would be interested in using a thread like this.... just post a picture you have taken (one a day).... doesn't have to be a recent picture and it can be of anything - your pets, nature, anything.

10 days ago I got a new little fluffy friend. I've never really been keen on hamsters and never thought of them as good pets, but Rufus has proved me wrong. He's such a sweet little boy. :heart: :joy: