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Best case scenario you can keep both snakes and rats - it sounds like your boyfriend prefers the snakes and you prefer the rats! You can keep boys and girls together if the boys are neutered or if the girls are spayed (or both), which would allow you to consolidate to a single large cage with...

I'm so glad that you had a good vet. I don't think that the one I took my first two girls to was experienced enough with small animals - just fine with lower level stuff like URIs, but didn't seem as comfortable surgically. They were both unspayed and developed mammary tumors at a really young...

Nine! Quite a bunch! I've always kept pairs, but I see the appeal of having a whole gang. Welcome to the forum!

Ooh, please include pics! I remember awhile ago I was looking to repaint my lightly used single CN (didn't end up doing it - the boys came too soon and it was a little too much work), but I reached out for help on a different rat forum and got lots of awesome tips on what kind of paint to do...

Aw; this really tugs at my heart strings :heart: My first two girls were Henrietta and Penelope :heart: Beautiful girls!

https://www.petclassifieds.us/i/563920/i.html "I have 3 male rats in need of a good home. They have a multi level cage ( similar to the critter nation cages but not the same brand) all supplies come with. Everything is Free but PLEASE do not fed them to snakes. Teddy ( black with white belly)...

Is she going to be fixed before going back to the boys? It seems like and obvious question, but I didn't see you mention it and nobody else asked.

Ahhhhh oh my goodness! So adorable! It makes me miss having baby girls! I'm on my last old man :)

I'm so sorry about Mackie; you made him as comfortable as you could, and I'm sure he appreciated it. I love rats with all my heart, but whenever I'm keeping them I'm walking on pins and needles. We can give them the best care possible, but it feels like sudden things like this happen all the...

It's just showing Nala, but she's absolutely adorable! Good luck with your little ones, and feel free to reach out to the forum if you ever have questions or need help!

I love bin carriers! I made one awhile ago when I was first bringing my boys home. It makes for a lovely travel cage, quarantine, place to sequester during cage cleaning, etc. A big plastic bin and two cookie cooling racks from Walmart can go a long way. Pretty sure it was the Rat Shack that...

I'm plenty happy with my rat's current diet (and he's been on it for most of his life so I'm not going to switch it up on him), but I was browsing around on the internet for info about rat longevity. I've read the thread on here about everyone's oldest ratties, and the theories about how rats'...

No problem! I know everyone is busy. It's comforting to know that it's normal though, and not just a product of his dermatitis. I'm away at college, but I'll see if someone would get him to try it. He loves treats, so I'm sure he'd go for it!

I thought I would update this in case anyone has a similar problem in the future. I let him and his skin alone for a few days, and it healed and started scabbing off. Most of his fur in that spot came off too, but it was probably fur that he would have groomed out anyways if he could have. It's...

I think some people have said before that the ink on newspaper could potentially be harmful to them if ingested? I'm not sure though. However, I will say that I bedded my rats down on paper (large sheets of packing paper, no ink), and I didn't find it as satisfactory as fleece. It's not as soft...

My old PEW, Mario, isn't getting around as well as he used to. Because of this, he can't reach all the way back to get at his upper back, around his shoulder blades. He also has a problem with dry skin. I was informed of this by the place I adopted him from a couple years ago. Usually, this...

Just cleaned up the boys! Fan of their new fleece

Thank you for the link! And I didn't know that about mites at all; I just assumed dermatitis because that's the info that the rescue gave me. What's interesting is that the neutered brothers were being kept with their sisters before I adopted them, but only the four boys displayed any...

Wow, it has been awhile since I've been back on the forum! Unfortunately, I'm back in need of some health advice. I thought my two rescue boys had dermatitis that they were healing from; that's what the rescue told me. See that thread for background here...

I adopted two five month old boys a little bit ago, and they both acted like Mordecai initially. I tried pretty much every socialization method with them, and some of them worked pretty okay. The problem was that I'd hit a wall after awhile of playing socialization offense, so to speak. I felt...