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I actually saw one of those CN knock offs at my local PetSmart. Do you think it's any good for what it is? I'm concerned as the little girls I'm looking at taking in have a history of chewing out of plastic cages.

Any suggestions for a half-decent cage to fit 3-5 adult girls that won't cost $500+ with shipping? I'm having a really hard time finding anything suitable online. Everything is either plastic junk that will be chewed through in no time, or is obscenely expensive, no middle-ground between those...

Stuffy, coughing/sneezing, rattling in my chest. Same kind of symptoms I get this time of year when the pollen is out, or if I'm in a super dusty room, etc. Nothing sudden or life threatening, more long lasting and uncomfortable. If they dribbled pee onto my skin I'd also get hives, but that was...

Not sure if this is the correct sub-forum for this, as it refers to human health rather than rat health, but here we go. It's been a VERY long time since I posted here, as my last rat, Panda, passed away in April of 2014. Over the course of four years I had seven male rats. During the summer of...

Unfortunately, Meeko took a turn for the worse this evening and was PTS. When I checked on him, he had chewed entirely through his bottom lip and was covered in blood. As I said, his teeth were fine when they checked him, so at this point, all we can figure is that there really was something...

Just got back to the vet. This is my first time seeing this vet, but I adore her already. This is the first vet I've had who actually knew more about rat health than I did. She used to own rats, and she actually did seem like she cared a lot about poor Meeko and wasn't just reading about rats...

Alright, I moved Panda over to the temp-cage with Meeko. Their regular cage has a ramp and a shelf which I'd just rather not have to worry about, and otherwise the temp-cage is the same size. But they're together, at least.

I have to, unfortunately. His cage-mate will eat all of his softened food/drink all the Ensure. Panda can be a bit of a bully. I hate to, but otherwise I'm not gonna know if he ate or drank anything overnight. I have to leave the house for a meeting tomorrow (Mom will be home to check in on...

Thanks, Dspch911, and I'm glad to hear your boy is doing better. I'll definitely read through your thread in the morning. I made a make-shift cage out of my dog's kennel so I could isolate him. I hate to separate him from his brother, but I'll feel a lot better knowing exactly how much he's...

Well, unfortunately, he seems to be taking a turn for the worse. I have him with me now, on my desk, and he's completely disoriented. He's trying to drink some Ensure but he's having a lot of trouble, instead sticking his hand in then licking it off his hand. Gave him a treat and he wasn't able...

I don't have anything to take a video with unfortunately, but I'm going to take him out shortly for some private out-time without his cage-mate and I'll keep a close eye on him and see if there's any head tilting. The good news is, he dug right into the Ensure I offered him, and his eye doesn't...

My young boy, Meeko, is having some distressing symptoms that I'm trying to figure out. I won't be able to get into the vet until Monday, so I'm trying to think of anything I can do for him in the meantime. His symptoms are as follows: - Weight loss/lack of appetite - Large amounts of myco...

Presumably the reason it's ideal for "feeder rats" is because the rats won't actually live very long while eating it, so you should only feed it if you're planning to kill the rats anyhow? Ugh.

Does anyone know if Chelsey's Cozies is still operational? I sent an e-mail but haven't heard anything back, and from looking around the site, it looks as though she hasn't completed any orders since last year. Likewise, it seems like almost everything on the Rat Stash website is either "Sold...

Sorry for the late reply; had a busy week working, and then my old boy Vin passed away on Saturday, so I haven't been online much. I was always happy with the MomRat liners. I wouldn't want anything more fancy than that; not worth the money. I'd rather pay $30 for liners I'm perfectly happy...

Thanks! I don't see a list of available solid colours for the inside of the hammocks, though? I only see a list of patterns for the outside. The inside is important because it has to be the exact same colour fleece as the liners I get. I saw those ones, but they're really expensive. Just one...

I haven't been around in a while, but I'm trying to figure out where I can order fleece cage liners for my Double CN. I ordered my last sets from MomRat, but her website says she is "on hiatus," with no date or year or anything to indicate if she went on hiatus this year or three years ago, so I...

Yeah, I was having the same thought. I definitely don't think it's a matter of them not getting enough, I've been keeping careful track of their weights, and what they eat now is actually only a little less than what they were eating before, just with veggies swapped out for some of the blocks...

I haven't been here in a long time, but I'm having an issue I don't quite know how to deal with. I have two brothers, fifteen months old. When they were younger, Oskar was the big, tough, brave one whereas Vinzent was small, timid, and afraid of most things, always hiding behind Oskar to...

Hey guys. I haven't been on in a long while, but I finally got around to checking back in again a few days ago. I was wondering, does anyone here treat their crew with Revolution on a regular basis? Oskar and Vin had mites last summer, which was a big scare for me because Oskar became very sick...