Search results

Hello everyone! It’s been an interesting year for my rats. From having to euthanize one of my rats, to one having a seizure, and then two dying of old age (at least they went quick and didn’t have a drawn out death), and now I have one female left. Oddly enough, this female I have left is the...

Hello everyone! Quick question, does anyone else’s rat(s) stare at you? My rat cage is in my living room, so when I’m on my couch, one of my girls is always staring at me. Even if I just fed them or played with them, there’s always the same one looking at me! One day, she stared at me for two...

Oh, just saw where people already posted that she passed. My bad.

So I did some research on this... maybe I have the wrong individual, but I found many articles saying Debbie Passed away? Unless there is a Debbie with the same exact name who also has “experience” with rats.

All four of them are a little over a year and a half old. The bites don’t look horrible. They have closed up, but it was enough to leave a scab. There are three bites and they’re on her sides. One of them looks like a slash and the others look more like bites.

Good evening, I have had rats for YEARS, and have never experienced anything like this.... one of my rat has bite marks all over her (not from mites, fleas or any parasite, but from one of the other rats)! They ALWAYS have food and water, there are so many fun toys, huts, hammocks, ladders to...

I have a sad update. She had to be euthanized. After completing an X-ray, it was determined that she had a tumor. I went to a different vet that actually specialized in rats and they believed it was cancerous. They said her organs were being squished, and that she was probably suffering, so...

So the vet gave us ivermectin to give her orally for a week. He took a stool sample and he believes that she may have an internal parasite. How often should I clean her cage do you think? Would it be beneficial at all to give her a bath?

Hi guys, I’m freaking out! I went to pick up my pet rat out of her cage to clean it (she has a vet appointment tonight) and she literally has brown bugs crawling all over her. They’re so tiny! I looked it up and I’m pretty sure it’s lice. She also is constipated I believe. I originally thought...

Hello everyone! So, I currently have 5 female rats, and they’re amazing, but I would love to start a different rat pack with just males. I’ve read mixed messages about having males and females in the same room of a house (due to the fact that they could smell each other and possibly get...

She does seem to be gaining more wait. I have not purchased a scale for her. Giving that I got her on the 30th of March and she hasn’t given birth yet, I’m just going to make an educated guess that she isn’t pregnant (which I’m sad about, but also relieved because that means she can go in the...

Yes! My girls LOVE running around the bathroom floor and I just sit there and they love climbing up and down my legs and jumping up onto my shoulders. I have one female who is always grooming me. I’ve thought about getting males but I just don’t have room for them in my apartment. Plus, I’d say...

Part of me wishes that I had all boys! My girls are sweet, but they are a little crazy! When I get them out for play time it’s like they black out and forget I’m in the room!

So as an update, my rat hasn’t given birth yet, and I may really starting to believe that she isn’t pregnant. When I go to pick her up, her belly feels pretty hard (not that I’m poking, I can just feel it as i pick her up).

I would say she is about a year old. She’s the approximately the size of my other girls and they’re around a year old (a little older). I’ve felt her belly before (not poking at it, just placed my fingers around it just like you said) and it felt pretty well rounded and not just on the...

It will be two weeks since I got her this Saturday. She is very sweet when I get her out. She loves sitting up on my shoulder. I feel like she is pregnant too, but each day that passes I get worried it’s something else that could be wrong with her.

Hey everyone! I’m new here, but I’ve had rats for a large portion of my life. Currently, I recently added a 5th female to my rat pack. I’ll admit, I didn’t adopt this time- I went to petland and saw a female through a cage and she looked so sad and I couldn’t help it. I currently have her in her...