is this rat ok? *POSSIBLE EMERGENCY*

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Can you get a video showing the breathing ? It may help us help you . It sounds like a respiratory infection to me.. Is he active, eating and drinking.? Id get him to the vet as soon as possible as respiratory infection are contagious .
 
Ok thanks. I will try and get a vid. Hes still aclimating to the new enviorment. We have another rat we got a while ago and were just finishing up introducing him to our other buddies. Were runng a full on rattery here
 
Kye said:
Can you get a video showing the breathing ? It may help us help you . It sounds like a respiratory infection to me.. Is he active, eating and drinking.? Id get him to the vet as soon as possible as respiratory infection are contagious .
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u couldnt get a vid but i did get a few pictures. He dosent really look like a rat. Hes cute tho! Hes eating and drinking fine hes really sleepy.
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Well.. Its still sounds like an Infection to me.. If there is any way to bring him to a vet I would. He's very small so make sure he's getting lots of good nutrients as he's still growing and needs lots of vitamins.
 
Kye said:
Well.. Its still sounds like an Infection to me.. If there is any way to bring him to a vet I would. He's very small so make sure he's getting lots of good nutrients as he's still growing and needs lots of vitamins.
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thank you. Hes alot better i think he was stressed out we will keep up on him and if he gets any worse we will try to take hime to the vet. Hes breathing better and looks better all in all. Hes very active and dirnking and eating.
 
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DapperRat said:
thank you. Hes alot better i think he was stressed out we will keep up on him and if he gets any worse we will try to take hime to the vet. Hes breathing better and looks better all in all. Hes very active and dirnking and eating.
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Thats good to hear. I would listen to his breathing everyday to make sure he's alright for the next week or so. Rats are very good at hiding their sickness so kep a close eye on him.
 
He looks like he wouldn't even be weaned yet! You may want to give him some organic soy infant formula. If I'm not mistaken, he looks around between 2-3 weeks. He wouldn't have been weaned until about 5 weeks....
 
Dena said:
He looks like he wouldn't even be weaned yet! You may want to give him some organic soy infant formula. If I'm not mistaken, he looks around between 2-3 weeks. He wouldn't have been weaned until about 5 weeks....
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Agreed although some rats are just small but he looks to still have baby fuzz
 
He looks like his eyes just opened a couple days ago, and his ears don't even look completely open!
 
Yah hes really young. I knew the when we got him. We have a seperate cage alllll the way at the end of the house. We have a little other (4 weeks old ) guy and were socialising him with my older rats. (about 4 mts) theyre doing great. Were doing the stage were we purt him the older rats cage. They love it in there they just avoid eachother.
 
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