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I’m so sorry :( it’s always hard but with your first rats even more so as you don’t know what to expect. When our first rat Pippin was in her last days we also separated her but have since learnt that it is much better to keep them with their friends. I can see from the photos his fur is all...

If you’re introing your recently neutered boy to fertile girls then 2 weeks is definitely not long enough! They may no longer be producing sperm any longer at that point but it can take 4-6 weeks for everything to fully work it’s way out of their system. If you are introing to other boys you...

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Yes we have been doing this since Saturday :) the swelling seems to be reducing, it just looks so sore bless him.

The vet said that from the X-ray the tooth is healthy. He definitely seems happier since we got the metacam so that seems to be helping. Will keep going with metacam and Baytril and see what the vet says when we see him again on Tuesday. Is it worth also persisting with karidox together with the...

I used to feed flax seed to one of our girls Luna. Can’t find where I read about this now but this did seem to keep the size of the tumours manageable for a few months at least. I think flax seed oil also works. I used to mix this into a wet mix for her and she loved it. She was always a tiny...

We’re not sure as we adopted him and they didn’t know how old he was, we’ve had him for a year I would estimate about 18 months. Is it likely an abscess then? It’s only been like that as of today, before that it was just a lump not an open wound so we haven’t been cleaning it, will do that now

Hi all, I have been reading these forums since discovering them a couple of years ago and they have helped me massively to understand and learn so many things about keeping rats, I never needed to post anything until now and hoping for some help/advice. One of our five rats, Rolo, had a lump on...