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  1. SillyGilly

    SOS! 15 day old rat won’t open one eye

    Hooray!! I’m so glad to hear that! Thank you so much for all of your help lilspaz ❤️ It really means a lot to me!! From my family to yours, we hope you have a fabulous 2021 🥰
  2. SillyGilly

    SOS! 15 day old rat won’t open one eye

    We are going to keep them separated for good that’s for sure haha! When their mama (my lil’ Higgins) was giving birth to them I was calling the vets office every five minutes to ask them if something she was doing was normal or not, and then I started panicking even more when I read that females...
  3. SillyGilly

    SOS! 15 day old rat won’t open one eye

    Thank you so much for the encouraging words!! His eyes are very shiny and he’s brimming with life! It’s so adorable (but so unreal in a way) the way he zips around the cage 🤣 Oh gosh, if he’s going to be a diva I wouldn’t doubt it if he inherited it from his mama 🤦‍♀️ I’ve never had a screamer...
  4. SillyGilly

    SOS! 15 day old rat won’t open one eye

    Aww how sweet ❤️ I’m so happy to hear that he and his brother not only went to such a wonderful home, but they also lived a long and fulfilling life! I actually do think that he was born the runt, just because he’s so much smaller than his brother and sister. Then again, his dad is a small fella...
  5. SillyGilly

    SOS! 15 day old rat won’t open one eye

    We managed to get a picture of his left eye open, but we noticed that after opening it, he’ll squint it. His mother is ruby eyed, is it possible that he was born with one ruby eye or something? I know that ruby eyed rats tend to have more difficulties seeing versus black eyed rats, so perhaps...
  6. SillyGilly

    SOS! 15 day old rat won’t open one eye

    Here is the best picture I could get of his left eye (he’s a very active lil’ fella). The thing on his eye is like a yellowish color, I thought porphyrin was usually reddish? His eye is open but it looks really small…I can try and get another picture when I get home. I’m praying a birth defect...
  7. SillyGilly

    SOS! 15 day old rat won’t open one eye

    Hmm, whenever I try to post the picture my phone freezes up? It looks like something is sticking off of the fur around his eye. We think it was eye gunk after all. After a bit of gentle wiping with a q-tip we managed to push it away enough for him to open his eye a little (yayyy). But just to be...
  8. SillyGilly

    SOS! 15 day old rat won’t open one eye

    Thank you so much for your reply! Even if there is a lack of experience, it helps to hear (read) such reassuring words <3 You also took the time to reply which means a lot to me also. I was actually going to give it a few more days before I posted here about this little issue we’ve noticed, but...
  9. SillyGilly

    SOS! 15 day old rat won’t open one eye

    Hello all! Just a worrying rat mommy here (you know how it is lol). I’m posting today about my baby rat who turned 15 days old today (January 4th), and well, we noticed that he keeps one eye closed. His other eye is fine, he has it wide open whenever he’s awake and exploring... I did some...
  10. SillyGilly

    Biting

    Hello all. This morning I woke up and spoke to my girls through the cage like always. And just for added socialization I’ll put my fingers through the bars, and stroke their little heads. My girl Benny is always the first to greet me and she loves when I do this! Higgins too! Well, when I was...
  11. SillyGilly

    My boy keeps biting his cage mates ears and draws blood?? Help!!

    Hmm fortunately it didn’t look like he was fluffed, just bumping and boxing. Although sometimes he’ll frighten his cage mates to the point that they both hide in their little space pod. They’ll also get all stiff-like whenever he comes around to sniff their faces...They’ll fight on occasion but...
  12. SillyGilly

    My boy keeps biting his cage mates ears and draws blood?? Help!!

    Thank you so much for your reply Latte TheRat!! I really appreciate you taking the time to drop a response, despite not having a lot of experience with boys! I’m beyond grateful!! I find it very odd that he so suddenly started to act that way…he’s been with Sheriff and Shy since the three of...
  13. SillyGilly

    My boy keeps biting his cage mates ears and draws blood?? Help!!

    Hello all! My question today involves my baby, Beowulf. He’s a non-neutered, healthy 6 month old, and today we took him, along with his brothers, Shy and Sheriff, – who are around the same age as him – to the vets for a general health exam. Well, while in the waiting room, Beowulf started...
  14. SillyGilly

    Bizarre Use of Teeth??

    Will do!! Thank you so much jorats for all of your help!!! (:
  15. SillyGilly

    Bizarre Use of Teeth??

    There’s never really a reaction from the other boys, almost like it doesn’t bother them. Hmm I’d have to say that it did start just recently, maybe just about a month ago. They each share a cage with just one other boy, so two to a cage (mainly because our boy Giltine tends to be a bit of a...
  16. SillyGilly

    Bizarre Use of Teeth??

    Hey all!! Thank you for taking the time to read my post! So, my rat Wizard was adopted from a pet store back in the beginning of March. We estimated him to be maybe three months or so when we got him. He has always been relatively healthy (i.e. he’s never had any porphyrin around his nose or...
  17. SillyGilly

    Worried! Change in Behavior!!?!

    Thank you so much SQ for the reference list!!! The breathing problems section definitely caught my interest! I just thought I’d give everyone an update on how the vet visit went! They ran some X-Rays (his third since March) and found that his lungs have really cleared up! Unfortunately, the...
  18. SillyGilly

    Worried! Change in Behavior!!?!

    Thanks so much for the replies!!! Unfortunately Dena, he’s always breathed real heavy like that :( I think it has something to do with his origin, I adopted him from a pet store and those babies have rather poor health to begin with (or so I’ve heard) they can’t find out what’s wrong with his...
  19. SillyGilly

    Worried! Change in Behavior!!?!

    Hello again everyone!! Above is the link to a video on Giltine’s sudden noisy breathing. He’s been on the doxy and Baytril treatment for almost four weeks now, and he’s been doing pretty good but today we caught him breathing like in the video, all squeaky with a little clicking noise behind it...
  20. SillyGilly

    Worried! Change in Behavior!!?!

    Here’s the link to a video I took of his breathing: As for his medication and dosage, we have him on just the Doxycycline (5mg/mL) and Baytril (0.4 cc). It says he weighed 50.00, but it doesn’t say the unit of measurement? The date on the receipt for his weight history was also a little...
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