I'll start by saying she's fine, I dunno what this was, but it rather scared the shite out of me.
So I have all the girls out the other night, two nights ago I think it was, and I gave them some treats. Dark bottom candy corn to be exact, I prefer the yellow bottom, so I have this big bag of the dark kind I'm using for treats. Well a few moments after giving them all one, I see champ gagging. I thought maybe she was choking cuz the candy's kinda chewy... then this bubbly thick white slime starts coming out of her mouth. This is about when I freaked out. I know there's no way for a her to have had a sudden onset of rabies so I knew that wasn't the case, but I still quickly put the other two girls away just in case whatever it was could hurt them too. She's still doing the gagging motions, which I've read rats cant throw up, but two nights ago I watched with my own eyes as mine did. I was really worried there was something on the candy, like a chemical or something, or maybe there was something on my hand... I was sure I had done something to inadvertently poison her. A few more gags and another output of the white slime bubbling out, and she seemed to be fine (during the gagging she was huddled up in a corner of a play box), and started running around some more. She kept making a weird sort of clicky/gurgly sound for a little while but all her movements seemed normal. No more gagging. Like I said this was a couple days ago and she's still fine...
The apparent culprit I found a few moments later, my little tube of Carmex lip balm had a nice rat bite taken out of it. She apparently ate herself a few good bites of menthol infused bee's wax.
So I have all the girls out the other night, two nights ago I think it was, and I gave them some treats. Dark bottom candy corn to be exact, I prefer the yellow bottom, so I have this big bag of the dark kind I'm using for treats. Well a few moments after giving them all one, I see champ gagging. I thought maybe she was choking cuz the candy's kinda chewy... then this bubbly thick white slime starts coming out of her mouth. This is about when I freaked out. I know there's no way for a her to have had a sudden onset of rabies so I knew that wasn't the case, but I still quickly put the other two girls away just in case whatever it was could hurt them too. She's still doing the gagging motions, which I've read rats cant throw up, but two nights ago I watched with my own eyes as mine did. I was really worried there was something on the candy, like a chemical or something, or maybe there was something on my hand... I was sure I had done something to inadvertently poison her. A few more gags and another output of the white slime bubbling out, and she seemed to be fine (during the gagging she was huddled up in a corner of a play box), and started running around some more. She kept making a weird sort of clicky/gurgly sound for a little while but all her movements seemed normal. No more gagging. Like I said this was a couple days ago and she's still fine...
The apparent culprit I found a few moments later, my little tube of Carmex lip balm had a nice rat bite taken out of it. She apparently ate herself a few good bites of menthol infused bee's wax.