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Avocado! I should pick up some of those individual containers from Costco. I think I will give them some chicken bones too, they LOVE those

Two of my sweet ratties just went through surgery two days ago. Is there anything besides their normal diet that will help them recover? I gave them a bit of scrambled egg last night, since extra protein may help them regrow tissue. Cocoa had a large mammary tumor removed and is doing very...

The girls have had their surgeries and are recovering!! Cocoa was alert like nothing ever happened. It was pretty bad for Rockie, she wasn’t coming out of the anesthesia. Her temp was low and she was in and out of responsiveness. I didn’t think she was going to survive the night. Her uterus was...

It seems the best advantage of spaying is before sexual maturity, and the older the rat is the less reduction in mammary tumors. I’m reluctant to do both surgeries at the same time as her little body will be stressed as it is.

Ok, the vet that I wanted to go with can’t operate for 7 weeks! Since Rockie is already quite thin and still bleeding off and on, this amount of time to wait is unacceptable. So, I called their usual vet (who sees exotics) and they can do both the spay for Rockie to remove her (likely)...

Thanks for all your feedback everyone! It’s been a couple weeks and my girls are stable on their medication. The best news is that my husband got a new job with better pay and we’ve decided to move forward with surgery for the rats! I’m really hoping Rockie will recover from this. The doctor...

Yes, the vet has called in a script for all three of the girls. The pharmacy didn’t call today, which I expected them to do, but I will follow up tomorrow and hopefully get them going on the medication. The vet said in his experience when there is an enlarged uterus and bleeding it’s nearly...

Ok! So upon closer inspection, it is not bloody urine, rather it was blood from her uterus coming out the vagina . I am so thankful I found an EXCELLENT vet who has a ton of experience with rats to examine my rats. Unfortunately, the cost to spay her is $460, and the tumor removal for her...

I have to say I’m feeling reluctant to take them back to the vet, she sees rats but not often, and I don’t get the sense she is an expert. She never addressed why the rats could have the porphyrin staining, wasn’t concerned about it. I will post in the Facebook group, thank you! our house...

My poor rattie girls don’t seem to be doing as well as they used to! Two of the rats belong to my son: Nibbles (tan dumbo Rex) seems to be the only one out of the three that doesn’t show any signs of poor health except for porphyrin staining on the fur of her head, and Cocoa (standard husky)...

he lives with three other rats you say?

When I change the litter boxes each day there’s no detectable odor. More so if I let them go for two or three days. At some point I was experimenting and found that adding a bit of coco husk to the paper bedding absorbs even the litter box odors! We also wash the fleece bedding in the cage once...

I’ve had rats with tumors before, it’s so sad. The first one (when I was in 4th grade) we had operated on and she died recovering from the surgery. The most recent one with a tumor I did not wan to lose her to surgery so she lived with her tumor until it was as big as a golf ball. Eventually she...

Our rat Cocoa has a growth that I just noticed last night. It feels pretty soft when palpated, but is in a location that makes me think it may be a mammary tumor . It’s under her right armpit. How can I distinguish between an abscess (this seems to have appeared somewhat suddenly-in the last two...

I tried applesauce and bread and those didn’t work for both rats that needed medication. What worked every time so I knew they would eat it all was mixing the dose in a dab of honey yogurt, sometimes with a drop of maple syrup.worked every time for my girls! One thing that was also suggested but...

I feed my rats the adult rat oxbow, yes.

The reason spinach is a no no is that it is high in oxalates. Oxalates are the same toxic compound present in rhubarb leaves that can make humans sick (and even die in some some recorded cases). I’ve been avoiding spinach for myself since I learned this, and especially avoiding it for my rats!

Oh good! I’m sure I have the injectable variety. I will have to pick up some fruit yogurt to mix, my ratties can’t resist that

So your Baytril is flavored? I just got some for my ratties and it’s a clear liquid that’s terribly bitter! I hope I’m not supposed to keep mine refrigerated.

Ok, this time around vet gave me Baytril for the girls. There are 28 individually dosed syringes for each of the two sneezers (Twice a day for two weeks). I’m only on dose three for each and it is so difficult to get them to take it! I tasted it and it is extremely bitter. I wasted two doses on...