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We had a large one that was filled with milk removed from Mizzy a couple of months ago, and almost immediately after, her abdomen started filling up with what we thought was fluid. It turned out to be a bunch of little pockets of milk and cancer cells under the skin. I'm not sure how or why she...

Mizzy has a mammary tumor and a large pocket of milk growing on her lower abdomen. Actually, the vet said it's many small pockets of milk, which is why we can't drain it with a syringe, and that there are cancer cells. Has anyone dealt with this before? If so, how did you treat it? We have her...

You're all very kind. I'd expect nothing less from ratty parents. I miss Remi so unbelievably much, and I've cried every day since he's passed. My baby girl Mizzy has cancer and will be leaving me soon, and Remi's brother Zeon has a tumor that's coming off Thursday if all goes well. It's a...

I just lost my baby Remi four days ago, and now I'm afraid I'm going to lose my sweet little girl Mizzy. Last night, I found her choking. I don't know what the culprit was, but she was in pretty great distress trying to dislodge it. Eventually, she settled down, though her breathing still...

Thank you so much for these kind words, Stephanie. They mean more than you know.

Yesterday, I had my sweetest baby Remi put to sleep. He was about two years and four months and had been thinning out pretty steadily for a few months. I chalked it up to old age, HED and a new female cagemate who he instantly fell in love with and followed around like a puppy. A couple of...

She ended up chewing her stitches out the morning after surgery and had a gaping hole. We took her back to the vet, and he stitched her up again. We asked him to do a body wrap, and it's working out well, but she's pretty depressed with the whole situation, poor girl. I'm not sure what we're...

Our senior girl Mizz, who is 3+, is currently at the vet recovering from a mammary tumor removal surgery. We weren't going to put her through surgery due to her age, but the tumor was growing very quickly, and she's still a happy, relatively healthy little ratty, and within a month, she would...

I just wanted to update this and let you guys know that Peach passed away on April 16th. She was doing great, almost completely back to herself. I thought the bromo was working amazingly, so I started weaning her off the prednisolone. She had her best day ever, even climbing again, then the...

She seems to be feeling a bit better today. She was ravenous and ate quite a bit of baby food and a bit of wet dog food that I hide her meds in. I've also been syringing water in her mouth every time I go to hang out with her. I got her some watermelon and cucumber. I think we're okay without...

SQ, I believe you deal with the same vet I do here in NB. I think we discussed that before, but I may be wrong. He said there was a shortage of cabergoline recently, and it was hard to get. He phoned around for me but couldn't find it. Today is day three of bromo and no improvement yet. She's...

She's about half a pound, so I think that works out to about 9 ml of water a day. She definitely hasn't been getting that much. I started syringing water into her mouth yesterday, which she hates, of course, but I'll keep that up.

My baby girl Peach has been having a hard go of it. She had a fairly large mammary tumor removed about two months ago, then she had another pop up almost immediately. I was giving her a concoction of coriolus, shark cartilage, flax seed oil, soy yogurt and probiotics, and the tumors didn't seem...

My five ratties have been stuck in this cycle of antibiotics for a while, and I'd really like to get them out of it. They get typical URI symptoms that respond quickly and well to clavamox. I've tried various course lengths, and even after a 3-4 week course, they're better for a couple or few...

Thanks for the information and the video, SQ. I will definitely keep an eye out for the vibrating ears. Here's hoping! I'm taking her to the vet this week. My daughter had previously taken one of our boys, Remi, to Douglas Animal Hospital, and he was seen by Dr. Colleen Bray. She said she was...

I'm in Fredericton and in need of a rescue home for two ratties -- a momma and one of her babies. The momma may or may not be pregnant, and I'm pretty sure she has ear infections because her balance is off, and her ears are tender when I press on them. I got them a couple of days ago from a...