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Interesting! So the Revo will take care of the lice too, then? I will put it on them right now! Thank you :)

Don't worry, I am not planning to ignore mites until they go away, LOL. So I noticed Pres had some little dots on him that moved and I figured they had to be mites. I immediately bought him some kitten Revolution online, but it took a few days to come in the mail. But I looked at Pres today and...

1095732, that looks fantastic! That's the exact cage we have and that looks exactly how I'd like it to. :) Your suggestions are great and I will definitely look into all of them. Thank you both!

We have a ferret cage for our boys that isn't technically Kaytee brand (I don't think), but from what I can tell, the bridges and platforms are exactly the same. We have this cage: http://www.petmountain.com/show_product/11442-509553 It's a great size and has lots of room for them, but it...

Thank you all so much for the support - I am feeling a lot better about rehoming Billy and Teddy. I miss them, but I know they will be well loved and Pres has a great snuggle buddy while he gets back to his usual self.

Our little Pickle man passed away on the 27th. He was very old and went peacefully in his sleep... We knew what was coming, so we were somewhat prepared. However, I am so sad to say that we didn't get a proper goodbye. I found him in the bottom of the cage, but could only bear to look at him for...

So we just got a new baby from a really great place... he is totally fine with being handled, very curious and sweet, and bonded to Pres almost instantly. It is his second night sharing a cage with Pres, and I caught them all snuggled up together and nearly died of cuteness! However, he is...

I think my boy Teddy has been SERIOUSLY over-grooming the other rats. Billy is one of his cage-mates, but they have always been together - I bought them together and they have never been separated. I noticed something was off when Billy started going bald on the top of his head. I figured he...

I recently began juicing to try to get some more veggies into my diet (I am a terribly picky eater)... it felt like such a waste to throw out all of that nice moist pulp leftover until I had a stroke of genius... rat mush!!! I was already feeding my boys the "odds and ends" that don't get put...

So until we can get Pickle neutered, he has had to go into his old cage alone. He still has plenty of outside time with the other boys, and does fine, but as soon as there is food involved, he flips his wig. So he's having to live alone for the time being. But the poor thing, he just looks so...

Yeah, he's a total sweetie to the other boys as long as food isn't involved! But I literally haven't been able to put food in a cage with Pickle and another rat because he just bullies them relentlessly. It looked so violent that I was honestly surprised there weren't any injuries. On the...

Think you're right. :( I never could get Pickle to stop bullying Pres over food. I don't know why that came on so suddenly. But today I scrubbed both cages down really well, and I put Pres and the two babies together in the big cage, who are doing fine together. Pickle now has the smaller cage...

I need to have one of my male rats neutered but I'm not really sure where to turn. Anyone know an affordable, reliable vet in the Orange County, CA area?

Pickle is not neutered, no. It might be time for that, though. I'm absolutely at a loss with these boys!! Pickle will NOT stop food bullying... poor Pres can only manage to munch during Pickle's time-outs. I've been putting him in time out over and over and over, and almost immediately after...

How old are they? - Pickle is about a year and Pres is a little less. Maybe eight months? Any injuries? - Not that I have seen, and I have been checking Pres since Pickle seems to be more violent than when they have their usual occasional scuffles. How large is the cage and how many rats live...

He isn't hoarding so much as beating up on Pres EVERY time he tries to eat... I've been doing the time out cage all day every day since we switched to blocks and it hasn't done much. I even switched them back to seeds but the aggression has stayed! I don't understand why Pickle is suddenly so...

I recently switched all of my boys to lab blocks based on the recommendations of other users here. They LOVE them, but I think Pickle loves them a little too much. I noticed Pickle and Pres getting into a LOT of scuffles since I switched them, and Pickle has been moving each block individually...

We have four rats now, and they're separated two and two. The newer two have been intro'd to the older two a couple of times outside of the cage, but I'd really like to get them all in the same cage, as the newer two are really not in a cage big enough for them (though the older two are in a...

So we're all moved in now and I think the ratties were the least affected by it than anyone else in the house, lol! Put them all in a small pet carrier with a blanket and some snacks, packed up their cages, and went on our way. They're all set up in my sewing/craft room now, and I think they're...

First intro went surprisingly well! Pickle flipped both the new babies very briefly, and Pres stood by as if he was planning to intervene if things got ugly, lol. Fortunately they mostly just ran around and sniffed each other; it seemed the one flip was all they really needed to understand that...