bige
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Hello everyone from KY.
I am a new rat owner. I just adopted two male dumbow ratties from the local pet store a month ago. I had been "discussing" purchasing rats with my wife for a couple of years and finally got the green light when my son and I made our usual weekly visit to the pet shop. I say "discussing" because the conversation was always very short and ended with a "no rats are gross".
We got to the petshop and after making our normal round of looking at dogs and cagts for adoption we headed to the small animal section and there we found a cage with two rats and a sign. The sigh basically said the rats had been purchased by someone and aparrently they had later decided they were afraid of the rats. The rats were never taken out of the cage and one had gotten into a fight with a cage mate. He had an open wound on his head and a large patch of skin and hair hanging on. The two had definitely seen better days. So the deal was a very large Superpet cage (http://www.smallanimalchannel.com/image ... 248-bg.jpg) with some used toys, a hammock, a used wire wheel covered in duct tape and the rats all for 30 bucks. The cage did not have any wheels, hardware or any of the levels in it. I trashed all the stuff in the cage and added two hammocks, a new wheel and I am now making levels to go in it as well.
So both rats are doing great. Both are now resocialized and all the wounds are healed up. Can't even tell they were there. We get them out daily and they enjoy plenty of vegies and fruit. They are fiends for yogurt. Surprise, surprise right?
It was was warm this past weekend and I took my previously injured boy Rex back to the pet shop for a visit. He loves to sit on my shoulder and go for a ride. They were happy to see that he is doing so well. Unfortunately both rats are now sneezing and are scratching themselves to death, but that I will save fo rthe proper section of the forum.
I'm glad to be here and look forward to talking with everyone.
BigE
I am a new rat owner. I just adopted two male dumbow ratties from the local pet store a month ago. I had been "discussing" purchasing rats with my wife for a couple of years and finally got the green light when my son and I made our usual weekly visit to the pet shop. I say "discussing" because the conversation was always very short and ended with a "no rats are gross".
We got to the petshop and after making our normal round of looking at dogs and cagts for adoption we headed to the small animal section and there we found a cage with two rats and a sign. The sigh basically said the rats had been purchased by someone and aparrently they had later decided they were afraid of the rats. The rats were never taken out of the cage and one had gotten into a fight with a cage mate. He had an open wound on his head and a large patch of skin and hair hanging on. The two had definitely seen better days. So the deal was a very large Superpet cage (http://www.smallanimalchannel.com/image ... 248-bg.jpg) with some used toys, a hammock, a used wire wheel covered in duct tape and the rats all for 30 bucks. The cage did not have any wheels, hardware or any of the levels in it. I trashed all the stuff in the cage and added two hammocks, a new wheel and I am now making levels to go in it as well.
So both rats are doing great. Both are now resocialized and all the wounds are healed up. Can't even tell they were there. We get them out daily and they enjoy plenty of vegies and fruit. They are fiends for yogurt. Surprise, surprise right?
It was was warm this past weekend and I took my previously injured boy Rex back to the pet shop for a visit. He loves to sit on my shoulder and go for a ride. They were happy to see that he is doing so well. Unfortunately both rats are now sneezing and are scratching themselves to death, but that I will save fo rthe proper section of the forum.
I'm glad to be here and look forward to talking with everyone.
BigE
Your boys are very pretty handsome
