In four month, Davos has bit me more than I thought would happen and it's always hard enough to draw blood.
I don't try to pick him up because he's still so jumpy. I was able to give him a treat out of my hand and he carefully takes it or licks the baby food, but on two occasions he's bit me...
just to update: it was definitely the soil digging box. It wasn't draining so the gnats found their breeding ground. Lots of vacuuming, cleaning, and three fly strips later issue solved!
Yes as groce as it sounds, I just noticed a fruit fly problem near where our rats reside. I’ve never had a problem this huge with fruit flies. It looks like they’re hiding the vent nearest to our boys. It’s pretty bad. Has anyone had this issue? We vacuumed the vent, inside the vent and I’ve...
I really appreciated all the responses you guys!
Here’s the updated situation:
About three weeks ago, I offered baby food on my finger for Davos to trust me since he did so well one of the first nights I got him and he gave it one lick and chomped hard. No fun. A week later, I offered a treat...
I really enjoy the Rat Guru’s content! I’ve rewatched her introduction video a couple of times haha. I have tiny signs of hope but I still haven’t made enough progress to be happy with imo. I’m apprehensive about neutering but I’m considering it.
I didn’t consider that and I wonder if that’s what the scale read. I did tell the vet he is my first rat so maybe they were just giving me the run down on the basics... I think I read too much into it.
And thank you! He’s named after the onion knight from game of thrones actually!
Oh okay, I’ll definitely keep that in mind so thank you for that! I try to balance them with the veggies.
I think you and Lise are right about that because he doesn’t look much different other than maybe his coat, but they seemed very concerned about his weight..
Occasionally his fur raises when he smells them. I like this idea! I'll give it a go.
The vet weighed him. He definitely didn't feel like he weighed that much either. I took him to the vet again yesterday, 5.50. I have a scale now so I can keep an eye on them myself
I've put all the boys on Oxbox when I got them, but I need to incorporate those whole grains, etc. I read some play area ideas, I think even a thread you made, and I made a little house/maze and put small treats inside! I'm definitely still learning and up for any ideas/advice. You all are so...
This is all great advice~ I've starting swapping cage items this week, but I didn't think of poop swapping! I'll do that. I bought a wheel a week ago too, it's almost too big for his cage so I leave it out when I let him explore outside of his cage at night along side a box maze I made. Probably...
Thank you so much for your reply! I'll definitely hold off for now, as that was my concern.
I figured he would be very territorial with his age.
I wish that was an error, my friend would talked about how Davos always left a tiny layer of food at the bottom of the bowl and just how silly it was...
I'm a first time rat owner. I'm struggling to introduce an older rat, Davos, to two younger rats, Stannis and Roose.
A couple of weeks ago, a friend tells me she needs her rat re-homed because her dogs would terrorize him whenever they could in the three weeks she had him. When I started with...