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  1. sonnyvincent

    In Memory Of My Rats

    We now have two rats from our original 2013-early 2014 group. Dijon is battle Congestive Heart Failure. I'm doing everything I can to keep him alive. I don't want to lose another rat this month, that would make one rat a month since May. And I just want him to feel better. He has his cagemate...
  2. sonnyvincent

    In Memory Of My Rats

    Finally we have Sydney. She passed very early on, in November or December 2013. Again, at that time we were fairly new rat owners and I had no clue vets saw rats. She probably could have been treated and recovered. She was a brown rat with a white tummy. She developed Upper Respiratory symptoms...
  3. sonnyvincent

    In Memory Of My Rats

    Brooklyn was hooded rat but she also has speckles on her back. She was a darling rat, pretty much my favorite. Everytime I came to the cage she wanted out and for me to hold her and love on her. She would climb around the cage following me. She was a true sweetheart. She was found one morning...
  4. sonnyvincent

    In Memory Of My Rats

    Just days before we lost Olivia, Raphael's cagemate and brother Croix became suddenly ill. He could not breathe well. I tried several suggestions from people online but he was in bad shape. I decided to see if he would improve overnight but when he didn't, and when I knew he was clearly...
  5. sonnyvincent

    In Memory Of My Rats

    In August 2014 we lost three rats. Olivia was one of them. I got Olivia in early July and was so excited to add her to our large cage of girls. I did not do my research. I had no idea that after 6-8 months you have to be very careful about introducing new rats to a group. Within 45 minutes...
  6. sonnyvincent

    In Memory Of My Rats

    Paris was also one of our first rats. She was an albino rat. Very nice and friendly, very active. She was the epitomy of health or so we thought. With no indication of trouble, I found her passed away in her cage in December 2014. She was a year and a half old. She looked contorted like she...
  7. sonnyvincent

    In Memory Of My Rats

    London was one of our first rats. She was hooded and a very nice young lady. When we first got her we didn't know much about rats at all. We started out with an aquarium which the petstore lady said would suffice. But did some research online and within a week got a larger wire rat cage. However...
  8. sonnyvincent

    In Memory Of My Rats

    Plymouth was from Marseille's litter and was a hooded rat. She was healthy the first 9 months we had her. Never had a myco bout or anything. But then the poor girl got an ear infection in November 2014 and ended up with a permanent prominent head tilt even though I gave her a 6 week round of...
  9. sonnyvincent

    In Memory Of My Rats

    Marseille was an albino rat and she was a stinker. When she was a few months old, we had her out in the living room and she escaped. No sign of her for three days until I literally put the love seat on it's back and found her hiding in the corner up above the lining. She also taught us that...
  10. sonnyvincent

    In Memory Of My Rats

    Dallas was hairless/naked rat. She was the only rat we didn't get from Petco or Petsmart, but instead a small family owned petstore. They sold their rats as either pets or snake food, sadly. Anyway, we found her in late 2014. She was probably about 10 weeks old at the time. Dallas had...
  11. sonnyvincent

    In Memory Of My Rats

    Bradford was a hooded rat and my sister's heart rat. He was one of the most loving rats we've ever had. She let him give her kisses, which basically entailed him licking the inside of her lip lol. He often free roamed and slept next to her under the covers. In September he contracted an upper...
  12. sonnyvincent

    In Memory Of My Rats

    Raphael was one of the two rats we impulsively bought from the Petco adoption table. He and his brother Croix were full grown and very sweet/friendly. They were huge - over 800 grams. We got them in March of 2014. Croix and Raphael were the first rats we let free roam at night in my sister's...
  13. sonnyvincent

    In Memory Of My Rats

    The hardest part of having rats is losing them. I think we all have probably learned that or will. We've owned rat for 2 years and 2 months now and we have lost so many. I think because they were almost all from the same pet store, and perhaps they don't live as long as some rats. I want to post...
  14. sonnyvincent

    Normal Sized Young Rats?

    I was curious about whether this group of rats is as big as they should be? I traced back and found specific dates-- they were adopted on Tuesday September 1st. They were most like about 5 1/2 weeks old, which makes them 13 weeks old now. I weighed them September 12 (all except one, who we went...
  15. sonnyvincent

    ??s for Anyone who's Had a CHF Rat

    My Dijon has tentatively been DX'd with CHF. His probably started earlier last month. It was subtle at first but by 9/15 I took him to the vet. She's the best rat vet around here which is not saying much. I convinced her to try Lasix after X-Rays showed large amounts of fluid. He's in the low...
  16. sonnyvincent

    Sick Ratties

    Yes thank you. He's been on lasix for almost two weeks. It didn't work fast, after almost a week only some of the fluid had gone down but as of 2 days ago he is eating and drinking as normal. His breathing is still faster than it should be and he's not as energetic as he should be, but his fur...
  17. sonnyvincent

    Sick Ratties

    He was on doxy/baytril/amox & prednisolone, lasix Tried nebulizer treatments over the weekend but his condition deteriorated each day. He passed away yesterday. Dijon is eating and drinking again, but still doing some heavy breathing. Not as bad as before-- his sides aren't as sunken in. He...
  18. sonnyvincent

    Sick Ratties

    OK so update... Dijon is feeling much better. Breathing has slowed quite a bit, he's eating and drinking again. He still sometimes hangs his head over to the next level of the cage, I assume to get better breaths. But he's looking better the last couple days. Bradford, however, has gone...
  19. sonnyvincent

    About the rats placed in a washing machine

    I'm really upset that the case concluded that way but I think the fact it went to trial is a good thing. In the late 90s here we had a trio of boys break in to a shelter for cats and murder of 16 cats and beatings of many others. It was horrific. And in the end because the cats were not worth...
  20. sonnyvincent

    Sudden (overnight) FRONT-END degeneration?

    I'm not sure if they can rupture or not but I know with my rat the symptoms came on very quickly. She had had a couple things that, in retrospect, might have foreshadowed that she had a PT (some loss of appetite as well as what I believed was a small head tilt thought to be caused by an ear...
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