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I always agree with everyone, so since you thought I said the opposite of what I said, I removed the ambiguous parts. Then just now I realized that the reason why, must be that you're all younger than me. So I'll try to remember to use more modern English from now on.

What are you talking about? Who are you addressing?

Mine have no smell. Everyone who posted in this thread, including me, is smelling nothing from their rats, so I don't know if parts of my posts weren't showing up.

Btw, Pretzel is a Norway. Pretzel isn't a black rat. The OP has just a rat that's black, not a black rat. Many rats that are black are brown rats, and many rats that are brown are black rats. (I'm mentioning this in case future viewers of the thread get confused.)

I don't see why not, but other people would be better at answering that, maybe put it in the habitat section. I used cleanable items like cotton fleece, and plastics which I then switched to metals that don't retain odor and ceramics. I give mine the safe contents of the recycling bin to play...

Raw bok choy has something in it that baby rats need for their growing bones. Read it long ago.

Exactly. (Forums are best for comparing the advice of the vet with others, to keep vet malpractice from harming rats.)

Email I sent when she was six months old to who gave her to me at eleven weeks: "You can't imagine how scared I am that last night I injured her. A few weeks ago my foot had started to step on her, when she wriggled I stopped putting weight on it, & she seemed okay. But last night I put the...

We're talking about Standard Ear Norways being more lively & Dumbo Norways being more calm. Is Iris a dumbo? Is Zirna a standard-ear?

I do mind thread hijacking when it's thread hijacking. Looks like I failed to further discussion on the tails part of your thread, but I guess his tail didn't play a part in what happened since there were no raised areas like on mine. I hope her health improves now that I know it's dirt so can...

No worries, my main reason for that post was to put it where the OP would see that they helped my elderly rat and probably saved her life. I was planning to, later when her scales have healed, post to let them know. When I see that the OP has seen it, I could move it or start a tail thread, but...

Wow I too always thought that was age spots. Tonight I washed it with mild soap and it's now white again, except a small spot and a big spot that didn't come off with gentle hand rubbing, to which I then applied olive oil, thinking it was caked gunk I could remove with sudsy toothbrush after it...

You're correct that Pretzel is genetically closer to his wild ancestors than Peanut is, in that Peanut is a dumbo rat which means (although his early ancestors all had smallish ears on the top of their head like Pretzel does etc) through selective breeding, Peanut and possibly many of his...

I feel five times more horrible than you, because it happened to me five times (two-year-old females). The more recent four were one per week for a month. There seems to never be enough time/experience/memory to figure out the right things to do. Yes. The last of the five had it bubbling out of...

They thought bloodloss was a good thing? Maybe she now needs rat-safe foods high in naturally-occurring iron. When I put probiotic spray on mine to keep his finger from bleeding, that seemed to make it never form a real scab, which must be why there's no new nail there, now that it's healed. Or...

One male is the same as a hundred females.

I know it comes off cotton fleece hammocks if you take it outside, grab one corner and shake it a bit.

RentACoop Hemp Bedding is way cheaper than other hemps (which need changing every 3-4 weeks is all), & is in stock at Amazon.