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:balloons: Hope,you are getting lots of love and spoiling today!

I can hardly believe it! She wasn't looking too good a month ago, when he developed heart problems. Now she's on meds and doing pretty well. She loves food and trucks over to greet me when I come into the room. I adopted her as a young ratty, with two sisters, from MiniFrog in Nova Scotia...

I have some serious doubts about my young girls. They are serious chewers, but last night they went too far. They chewed holes in the mesh of their favourite wheel! I've had it for probably 8 years, and no rat was ever foolish enough to do that. Here's their wheel, useless until I can order...

SQ helped me with this. I was concerned because of the sheer numbers of the young ones--3 moms aged 5 months, and ten girlies aged about 11 weeks. I had visions of them all leaping out of the tub. I was also concerned that Valentinos, the snake tank rescue boy, would be too mean a groomer...

My 10-week-old PEW, Eira (Welsh for snow), developed very noisy breathing a couple of weeks ago. Zithromax didn't help. In desperation I tried Baytril/Doxy, even though young rats don't normally get Baytril. I took her to the vet, and we then tried Clavamox. No luck. He was thinking of tryIng...

It was down for a very long time, and none of us knew what happened. Anyone have some info??

I noticed strange text below the users' avatars at the left of posted messages: Registry_dropdown etc. Does anyone know what it means?

I have no worries about tossing all the babies in together, but I'm not sure how to handle the mamas. They are sisters, but I had them only four days before they started giving birth. Two of them are a little skittish around people, and poor little Wellie (mom of two) is still very scared of...

I'm having some challenges loading the photos from Saturday and tonight. Forum just doesn't upload them, so I'll try Tapatalk. First, here are Wellie's babies at 8 days old: 1 boy, 1 girl Here they are with mama: hoodie is the girl, berk is the boy

I have been down to three rats since January, and I have found that six is about right for me. Any less, and the colony feels sad. Any more, and I find the illnesses and vet bills too much to handle. So I decided to add three girls to my gang. I'd felt so guilty that I had not been able to...

Some of you may have heard about this wonderful rehab centre through the TV show Hope for Wildlife. The centre also has a Facebook page. This centre is amazing. I love watching the TV show, seeing them rescue and rehab every kind of animal: beavers, deer, raccoons, owls, Bobcats, mink...

Wouldn't this be great?! Might keep a few burglars away. ;)

Costco (in Canada) has a 5kg kitchen scale with large round platform for $19.99. Brand is Kamenstein. Package doesn't say how finely it measures (probably not to the nearest gram), so not useful for a pregnancy watch, but it's an affordable alternative to the more accurate postal scales (mine...

Usually, no matter how bad the weather, the school kids get the day off and the rest of us go out there on icy roads to work. Today was different. The blizzard was bad enough that even the army base, the biggest mall, and the universities were closed. Just about everything else, too. Even the...

I found an interetesting article today. Scientists are beginning to research pet personalities! So far the work has been done with dogs, but this is a good start. Excellent to see animal personality entering the peer-reviewed literature. Maybe we should write to the authors and suggest that they...

My little Jenny (formerly Josie) was adopted from Carolyn B in NS, who'd been taking care of them for someone who was never able to take them back. I don't know how old she is, but she was at least one year old when I adopted her and I have had her for 1 1/2 years now. My guess is that she is...

I haven't used it in months. They've changed the format, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to post. It used to be so obvious. I clicked every icon and came up empty. Anyone have a suggestion?

Hadley has been clumsy lately, but still lively and eating well. She's thin. This morning and afternoon she seemed her usual self. I went up to see the rats when I got home this evening, and Hadley was puffy and sitting by herself not moving much. I picked her up to check her, and she was...

A recent research study, published in a per-reviewed journal, found that curcumin (active ingredient in turmeric) reduces the formation and the maintenance of conditioned fear memories. This is very interesting, because curcumin is cheap, harmless and legal! I'd like to find out the proper...

I have five rats who have been living as one group for about a month. Things seemed to be going well, despite the varied ages and the fact that two were unsocialized feeders (each given away after the snake was not hungry) and that one was an SPCA rat from completely unknown background. Last...