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  1. Anna Allison

    Help please, my little girl Bella is bleeding from her vagina!

    This is the 2nd time she’s done this. The first time was about 2 weeks ago and it only lasted for 1day and now when I just picked her up I noticed she was bleeding again. I’ve never had a female rat do this before so I know it’s not normal. Do I need to take her to a vet? She doesn’t seem to be...
  2. Anna Allison

    Was it a good-bye or a cursing?

    It all started with a box of 9 little cupcakes I had on top of the deep freeze in the kitchen. I heard a noise and looked and the box of cupcakes was moving, so I run to the deep freeze and grab ahold of it and told who ever was dragging it away "no, no, no they are mine" even though I couldn't...
  3. Anna Allison

    Infant mouse HELP

    A couple of days ago I found a tiny mouse in my dish water just floating around on the sponge all soapy. Well I got it out and rinsed it off and put it in one of my extra rat cages. Well today when I started to clean my ratties cages I noticed the little mouse was all bundled up in a rag so I...
  4. Anna Allison

    Saying goodbye!

    My Sonny passed away , while I was out of town on an emergency. He was my very first rat. I was expecting it, but you're never really ready for it. He was old and had respiratory problems. Now I guess I'll have to introduce his cage mate Lestat (the vampire) my Dumbo Siamese rat, to my other...
  5. Anna Allison

    My rat has a limp. Help.

    Please Help! When I checked on my boys yesterday, I noticed Lestat, my dumbo rat was not putting any weight on one of his back legs and his foot looked a little swollen. When I checked on him today there was no improvement. He is in a cage with a reg. fancy rat, they are both about the same...
  6. Anna Allison

    QUICK !!! HOT !!! RATS !!!

    I NEED SOME QUICK ADVICE !!!! My poor babies are HOT. I'm having some issues with the electricity at my house, and it can't be fixed and turned back on till Monday morning. And it's been real HOT here in Jasper, Alabama, hottest days we've had so far. There is no where cool I can take my 4...
  7. Anna Allison

    Found Something my rats LOVED!!

    I am always looking for something that my rats will like and actually play with. Well I found something they loved and have played with it on and off all day. You know when you order more drinks than you can carry at the fast food restaurants and they give you cardboard drink holder, well I put...
  8. Anna Allison

    Rats In Pajamas!!

    I don't know what to do!! I literally have rats in my pajamas. Last night I opened my pj drawers to find a litter of the cutest, tiniest, most adorable baby rats. They couldn't have been more than a couple of days old. I shut my drawer not wanting to disturb them, but what do I do now? No, this...
  9. Anna Allison

    Babies overpowering mom..

    So, Sweet Peas ten babies are 18 days old now and they are a pretty good size. They look like they are overpowering her when they are drinking milk. She doesn't seem to mind she's a good mom, but she just looks so helpless with all of them on her. If babies don't get completely weaned till they...
  10. Anna Allison

    Why can't they see?

    I've read a few books and a few things in the internet about rats and took notes, trying to be a good rat mom. Tonight while going over my notes I seen that baby rats open their eyes at about 10 days old. Well, Sweet Pea's 14 days old babies have not opened their eyes yet. They are growing like...
  11. Anna Allison

    Sweet Pea mother of 10 keeps escaping. HELP

    I believe Sweet Pea has had it with her 11 day old kittens. She tore a hole in the lid of the 20 Gal tank I set up as a nursery. I caught her put her back in and covered the hole and she was back at it. Since it was late I put her in a pet traveling carrier by morning she had chewed out of it...
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