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Hello, lost one of my babies today and I'm down to my last rat. I don't plan on getting anymore rats for a number of reasons and I'm not sure what to do. She is 2 years and 8 months. She has chronic respiratory issues and lost mobility on her hind legs but is doing good otherwise. I don't want...

Hello, one of my rats ( 2 yr old ) had a stroke and lost a lot of mobility. He had the stroke a couple months ago so I don't think he will be recovering anymore. He can't walk, he just flops around and drags himself. He will eventually get places but it takes him a huge amount of effort. This is...

Hello, just went to take one of my rats out of their cage and noticed my girl has an extremely swollen foot ( and maybe her leg a little too ). She cannot bend her toes and just drags the leg around. Vets are closed tomorrow but I will be taking her in on Monday most likely. I am just wondering...

Hello, one of my rats has been treating for aspiration pneumonia for around 2 weeks with Zithro, Baytril and steroids. She had been in respiratory distress for a while but is finally doing better now. She has been stable with almost zero respiratory complications for a week or so now. Today I...

Hello, the other day one of my babies started panicking and mouth breathing and had mucus blocking her throat and nose. She was moving her head like she was choking. I was going to take her to the emergency vet when she started to slowly look better and started breathing through her nose again...

Please help, what could be causing this? There's what seems like mucus blocking her nose and throat and it won't stop forming. It happened out of nowhere. She was fine just a few minutes ago. I have antibiotics at home if needed. Would nebulising help? Is there a way I can clean her nose to...

Hello, one of my boys seems like he has lost a little balance. He runs around and can jump and climb but I notice he sometimes just flops to one side and kinda lingers to the side when he runs or walks. Im not sure if it is always the same side. He is around two. He can hold food with both hands...

Hello, I just had my rats out when all of a sudden I noticed Simon's tail looked like...it was moving by itself? Like he was trying to, but had no control over it. I've seen rats wriggling their tail and this isn't it. He's tail makes very sudden movements so he kinda loses balance. Like he is...

Hello, one of my rats fell from the top of his cage, I heard him hit the ground and when I looked he was, I think, seizing and gasping and bleeding a bit from his nose. I held him for a bit until he stopped, then placed him on my bed and he couldn't walk, he just flopped on his side. I thought...

Hello, one of my babies has been in and out of the vets cuz he keeps removing stitches from a neuter. This time he stayed at the vets for a couple of days for them to keep a close eye on him 24/7 (bless them ) but he came back to me with a skin condition. Vet isn't sure what caused it and Ill be...

Hello, one of my boys was neutered about a week ago. Yesterday I noticed a little blood around his penis so I pushed it out and it was bleeding. Yesterday I saw a bit of urine with blood but today I haven't yet, tho there's still blood on his penis. He doesn't seem too bothered by it. I've put...

Hello. A month or two ago I saw one of my boys, Bobby, had paraphimosis. His willy went back in without an issue using sugar. I also started him on metacam and it didn't happen again while he was on it. When this happened he also had a tiny mass growing near of of the sides near his penis that...

Hello, one of my boys had a tumour removed and won't stop messing with his stitches. I have been staying up with him but I gotta sleep at some point. I'm thinking he's pain meds may have been underdosed. He is around 420g and was given 0.16 ml of Meloxicam 0.5 mg/ml. I have meloxicam 1.5 mg /ml...

Hello. One of my rats has what I think might be a tumour on one of his sides near his arm. He is around 2/2.5 years old. I can't be sure but that's what his foster mum told me when we adopted him. He has chronic respiratory issues and is on maintenance meds but is doing well and seems healthy...

Hello, I'm one my boys always makes this "snoring" sounds while he sleeps, like he is congested but it only happens while he sleeps. I tired treating for URI because of this multiple times but it never really goes away. I have treated him for actual URI's where he would be wheezy and congested...

Picked up one of my boys to give him his meds today and noticed hes pupil is dilated and blueish. Yesterday it was alright. I don't think it will bother him much. They don't have great vision anyway. I'm just wondering what might have caused this ? He his a brat and is always bothering others...

Hello, I adopted this very silly boy a couple months ago. When I adopted him I was told he was either one and a half or two. I am leaning more and more to the second option, and think is is close to being three now. A couple months ago he started developing HLD and naturally became a bit more...

Hey sorry I didn't know what to name this thread. One of my boys, who was castrated a long time ago, has two (?) Very little lumps on the side of his penis. He had an abscess there before so I was waiting it out thinking this may be another abscess but the little lumps never really grew in size...

Hi, one of my boys has a dangling tooth (upper left ) and he is struggling to eat. He just eats reeeeeally slowly and takes very small bites. He's still pretty young just over a year old. I also noticed his lower teeth are a bit too long. Maybe he hasn't been trimming them himself because of...

Hey, so I adopted this rescued boy, based on what I was told, he is over 2 now and he was rescued from a neglecting situation where the owner stoped cleaning the cage when she got pregnant. The family was afraid she would catch something from the rats so no one would touch the cage. Basically...