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My baby boy is gone. He passed away in my hands. I went to check on him this morning and there was blood everywhere again but much worse, so much. He ripped off three of the nails on his one back foot. So close to the anniversary of his brothers passing. Thank you all. It’s been a nice journey...

Alright, thank you for the feedback. My boy doesn’t seem to care for anything that has to do with chocolate anyway, I’ve tried giving him chocolate chips on a couple occasions since I found out they can eat chocolate and is somewhat beneficial for them but he never took a liking to it. I do...

I’ve owned rats for a couple years, I’ve had to give them medicine via medical syringe plenty of times. My rats would just lick it up from the syringe. I always come here first to see what the proper way to do things is first as not even my old vets knew how to properly tend to rats. I am well...

Hello, thank you so much for your response. I of course will go slow and be careful when clipping his nails, I know that clipping animal nails is a really serious situation and you have to be extra patient and careful when dealing with it. I was wanting to clip his nails cause they were getting...

Alrighty, thank you for the response, I will for sure clip his nails as soon as I get the chance in hopes of something like that not happening again. He doesn’t have much troubles physically eating his food enough to have to make it into mush as well as if I were to make mush for him I feel he...

Hi all ! I am so sorry for not making an update for you guys sooner, I have been so busy with work or outright just forgetting to give you an update when I do actually have time. He still doesn’t have the ability to use his legs, I believe it may be either hind leg deterioration (if that’s...

Hi all ! This morning I realized that I never ended up updating the thread about how my boy is doing. I had started a new job and have been very busy and haven’t had time to sit down and write an update. I will try to as soon as I am able to. Thank you for all of the previous help, I really...

Hi mwp051699, Sorry for not responding, I swear I’m not ignoring you. Your replies are just a lot for me to read and respond to at the moment but I will answer you as soon as I get the chance. I really appreciate all of the information and help you are providing :-) Thank you !

I gave him another wash because I saw something white in his genitals and just assumed it was a plug. After not being able to get it out I thought that it may just be it’s his genitals so did some reaserach just in case and realized that it in fact was not. I got it out eventually after poking...

I will definitely be keeping an eye on it

When I went to check up on him he was basically drenched in pee so I decided to give him another bath but clean everything except his head this time. I was able to focus more on his groin area and did a little squeezing around. Let me tell you, the amount of build up that came out was absolutely...

Alright, I was just going to ask if that was advisable for me to do. I’ll make sure to check on his foot every once and a while when I get the chance to see how it is doing. I’ve tried massaging (I don’treally know what other word I could use to describe it) around the area but nothing had come...

I gave him a wash on his undercarriage but his genitals still have a very strong smell (yes, I smelt it, shhhh) and it is orange around it. I will attach a photo for reference. He is wrapped in a towel and still drying off, that is why he is damp. I don’t know why the quality drops when I upload...

Dose #8 done I am really dumb and didn’t realize that I hadn’t done the proper laundry to be able to clean the whole cage. I will still give him a wash and clean the bottom level of the cage as that is the only level he has been using and is using at the moment. I will do the proper laundry...

Dose #7 done

Dose #6 done I will wash his undercarriage when I clean his cage . It just makes more sense than doing it right now. Clean cage, clean rat.

Dose #5 done He did extremely well with this dose. He actually licked it up instead of having me basically force it into his mouth. I will attach an updated photo of how is foot is looking. He didn’t seem as mopey, he even scooted up to one of my cats that was laying on the bed just watching...

Dose #4 done Done a little later than I was hoping for but still made alright timing His foot seems to be almost back down to normal size, it is still a little swollen though. I did some research before turning to the forum and I was worried that that is what it was going to come out as being...

Alright. I might be going out a little later today so I may not be able to give him the medication every 4 hours on the hour but I will try the hardest I can to hit the goal times. I am not too sure how old he is honestly. I adopted him September 2018 and they told me he was either 5 months old...

Dose #3 done I did it a bit ago but I was uploading the video so I didn’t update the thread right away. I also unfortunately woke up way later than I would have liked so I wasn’t able to give it to him first thing in the morning. The colour of his foot seems to be close to normal again...