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I don't have the ability to place my two story rat cage in a separate room, allowing a door to be closed and all lights to be turned off. Aka, our rats, especially my two females who are affected the most by lack of daily, complete darkness, are at much higher risk for health issues...especially...

I live in Columbus Ohio. I may be able to help them if nobody else can. I'm having a lot of vehicle issues and my vehicle is also really bad in the snow... and we're getting pretty wicked weather here. It's an hour and 15 minute drive for me. So I may be able to, like I said, if nobody else can...

Have a Rabies test done on both deceased rats brain's, if this just happened and you have access to their bodies. The rescue should be able to provide this service, free of charge, since it would possibly greatly affect ALL the animals they shelter. It passes so easily, after all :( In actually...

Somehow I never saw these replies and I feel terrible for not responding! Thank you all for taking the time to comment! I will look in to those vets asap and again, thank you all :) We've had a helluva past few months (lost THREE rats). One, Dill, passed away from old age :/ Matilda, our AMAZING...

I'm outside on my tablet and getting poor internet...is that north of Cbus? Ugg, 2hrs is pretty far. Gas money added on and would have to make two trips at least....yea, too far. Thanks though!!

I find it pretty funny in a not-funny way that you're telling us to do a little more research on Myco when you're the one giving your so-called "family" a cleaning agent to drink. Unless you're a scientist and you're working under the direction of an organization that is researching such a...

When I got bit by a brown recluse, it left a very similar looking mark :/

It is quite obviously a tumor growing. In literally the last 24 hours, it has morphed in to something that looks like it belongs from another planet. It's "blobby" (as you can see in the photos). The only thing that makes me feel semi-hopeful about it being benign is that it's not dark in color...

Hi there everyone. I'm back. And per usual, I have a rattie health dilemma! I really do need to start making some HAPPY posts on here, darnit. But for now, the urgent issue... We rescued a female rat from a pet store. They were unsure of her exact age but we believe her current age to be...

Thank you. He was our (my bf and I) first rat together. I'd had a few back in the day but he'd never had one. I can still remember the day we brought him home. All he wanted to do was sit on Andy's head while Andy laid on the couch. We kept trying to get him to do his shoulder, where it was...

Unfortunately, Nimh passed away yesterday here at home on my lap. His heart took its last beat at the exact second I told him I loved him and that it was okay to let go. Thank you all for your support.

Can't fix stupid... (that girl sounds like a complete idiot)

Would that breeder happen to be the one that I read a lengthy thread of? I can't remember her name but she wanted to start breeding rats and obviously, she didn't get the warm reception here that I think she thought she would lol

Oh my goodness, too cute :) The black one with the white tummy looks so much like our new-ish little girl rescue. I don't really have any advice other than weigh then daily and...good luck!

We have some injectable pain medication from Ferdinand, one of our other rats that passed away last week from something completely different (I wrote out an entire post to go along with these photos explaining it all but it refuses to show up lol grrr) so we could give him that but in all...

Agreed. We have been waiting for Monday when the vet will be back in that we saw. I guess I just keep hoping the meds will start to kick in and that he'll magically be okay again. Hope can really be an amazing thing sometimes. Othertimes, it just extends pain. I wish I knew what to do. I will...

I (and others on this site who've tried) can't get my actual written information to post with my thread BUT I just wanted to at least post my thread so you can see the photo's and read the comments. I hope yours is a different situation but there's a chance it's Zymbal's. Look in to that. Good...

I guess in my heart, I've known ever since I noticed the lump and started to look around on the internet :/ The fact that it's not really a uniform shape (you can tell in my one photo pretty well...it is shaped more like a kidney bean and the part closest to his ear is the largest - it's all one...

Is it because it's too long or something? I don't get it!

I would think it's the same as with human men who are obese...how their penis gets pulled in due to fat? Maybe not but because he's a very large rat, that could perhaps be the case. Other than the hygienic concerns, I don't think it's a super big issue. I'm far from an expert, however!! Either...