euthanasia

Hello everyone :) Bit of a sad one here and I hope nobody here will judge me too harshly cause I truly feel like I’ve been an awful rat mum. My boy James is nearly 3 now and his brother died a long time ago. I have 3 other boys who I adopted for siblings for him and they are all perfectly...

My 2 y.o female rat developed classic signs of mycoplasma about 1 week ago. I began baytril when no improvement was seen after 2 days. She progressively has gotten worse and we took her to an exotic vet yesterday. I was under the impression that the vet would choose to euthanize her but to my...

I have two female rats, both about 2 years old, purchased at the same time (presumably from the same litter, from a feeder box at a small pet store) they both got tumors within a couple of months of each other. The tumors are growing quickly and the vet I spoke to says that due to the age of the...

Hi everyone, I'm looking to get advice from those who have had to make the hard decision to euthanise their pet rat, and to share the experience I'm currently going through. My female Frida (1.8 years) was diagnosed with heart disease at the start of the month, and she has a build up of fluid...

I have a terminally ill rat who I believe is nearing the end of her life. I have a couple of questions relating to her euthanasia. 1. Should I bring her to our normal vet clinic assuming they're open at the time, or should I bring her somewhere else? The clinic we go to is familiar to her, but...

I have a 3.5 yo female rat named Ginger. Recently, she developed a tumor and has quickly grown to be about the size of a lime (I've attached pictures). She's skinny and her back legs are starting to drag. I took her to the vet, and my options are either euthanasia ($70) or surgery ($400)...

Hi, My rat Dixie has a large tumor right in between her back legs and it is growing everyday. I want to take her to the vet to see about getting it removed or having her put down if it’s too late, but there’s a problem. Dixie does not like to be touched by strangers or picked up. She will try...

One of my rats recently got diagnosed with lung tumor. The vet gave me antibiotics and said that he would likely die within 1-3 months. Originally he had been on antibiotics before for what we thought was just a cold, but it progressively got worse to I kept taking him back to the vet...