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Chewie is about 560g and I need to calculate dosages for his meds that I'm using from my other rat's medication. He's getting 0.45ml of baytril. The bottle of doxy says: '1 x Ronaxan 100 tabs 100 mg Pk50' but I don't know what it means. How much should he be given? I reckon around 0.3? I also...

Chewie is suddenly breathing heavily and just lying on my lap. He was completely fine yesterday and it's all very sudden. I have antibiotics and antiinflammatories. Should I give them to him?

Helllo, My Chewie is getting neutered next week because he is being aggressive towards me and I wouldn't want to risk trying to introduce him unneutered to another rat. I've been searching for a single older ideally female rat but haven't been so succesful yet. There is one breeder offering to...

A few days ago my Yoda passed away-we didn't expect him to die so quickly at only a year old. This leaves Chewy needing a companion but I have so much to think about that I need advice. Recently Chewy has become quite aggressive; I think it's just a build up of testosterone but Yoda's illness...

My rat Yoda is extremely lethargic and after Baytril failing to make him better,I went to the vets today-she gave me Meloxicam, Baytril, Ronaxan and Bisolvon sach. It's a lot and cost £90! I felt slightly more relaxed though with hope that this would work, but I gave Yoda his doses for today...

My rats tend to get lumps on their neck occasionally which are always abscesses that pop on their own. The reason for the lumps are unknown but I am trying to improve the cleanliness of their cage. About a month ago, Yoda formed an abscess under his chin and it opened just before I went on...

A few days ago I came back from holiday (my rats were looked after by my dad) to find Bodger, my oldest rat, not very energetic and breathing heavily. He had had mycoplasma from a young age as I adopted him from someone who got him from petsathome. We'd tried giving him antibiotics several times...

A couple of days ago I realized that my oldest boy Bodger had a swollen left nose. It might be difficult to see on the photo but he has a bump and I'm not sure what it is-whether it's something to do with his respiratory infection or an abscess or tumour. It's a pinkish colour probably from his...

I got two new baby rats a couple of months ago from a knowledgeable breeder and she said they weren't sneezing. I took them home and in the first few days they started sneezing which I thought was just the environment. It continued with one of them, Chewie, and I took him to the vets a few weeks...

Two weeks ago I got two new baby rats-called Chewie answers Yoda. Chewie has been sneezing and at first I thought it was just the new environment and it could very well still be that but it's been two weeks exactly and it is now more of a squeaky sneeze in bursts every once in a while. Should I...

Hello, I have a 1.5 year old boy who doesn't have a friend and a couple of days ago I got 2 new 6 week old babies. I know they need to be 8-10 weeks old to start intros so I've kept them away from each other, but their cages are in the same room. I doubt the babies care very much but I'm worried...

My rat has been alone for about a month. First we had difficulty finding available rats, then he got an abscess on his neck and we had to wait for it to heal. Recently we found a breeder who had baby rats but they are currently 2 weeks old and they said that we can take them when they are 4...

This is a lump that appeared within a week and at first I thought it was a tumour. However you can see the dark spot in the photos which appeared last time when he had an abscess. So I think it is an abscess but does anyone else think so too? I'm tempted to treat it myself though since when both...

They aren't great photos but that is a fairly small lump under my rat's chin. It's the size of a gumball and is quite hard. It moves under the skin and it's very round like asphere not a semi-sphere if you get what I mean. I'm terrified it's a tumour and I don't know what to do. It doesn't seem...

Hello, I lost one of my boys a few weeks ago to tumours and I've been checking around my current rat's neck for any lumps. I came across a tiny pimple like lump by his throat which is barely noticeable and not visible. He has a slightly bare patch under his chin I think from an abscess he had...

Hello, Today, I had to put my rat to sleep because he had a cancerous tumour and it was only going to get worse. I am devastated but I know it was the right thing to do. Now I have one rat who is by himself and as a student, I can not spend 12 hours each day with him. I have searched for rats up...

My rat Badger didn't take the food I offered him earlier although he would usually grab it and run away. I left it infront of him and he seemed to be trying to put it in his mouth and carry it off somewhere but it looked like he was struggling to do so. He was well enough to climb on top of his...

I just noticed this morning that Badger has a bald patch and some porphyrin around his left eye. As far as I know, he is healthy otherwise but I don't know how serious this is. It could be an allergic reaction to the tiny bit of dog biscuit I gave him yesterday-if it is, do I need to take him to...

A few months ago one of my rats formed an abscess on his neck but it fell off naturally after a couple of weeks probably because of the antibiotics we gave him. Now my other rat has I think an abscess on his neck. I have been giving him the left over antibiotics or a few days but it is turning...