RattoPazzo
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My 1.7 year old rat has lost interest in food seamingly from one day to the next. She is still very active, jumping and running more than her sister, who is still eating fine.
For some backstory. She (Tamira) is a rescue and her parents had a petstore litter. For some months her sister (Nifti) had a respiratory infection that took three diffrent vets to solve. In the mine time Tamira became food aggressive and would bite her sister when they would eat colse; so I started to separate them douring feedings. The new pattern became Tamira eating some and stashing the rest for later snacks, and Nifti eating all she colud before her sister would come close.
Recently I found a mass, like a hard rice corne, near Tamiras neck (between her arm and base of the neck) and a week later a suspected mammary tumor on her side. I observed her for a week to be sure and called the vet who gave me an appointment for next week.
Two days ago a took in a hamster to take care of for a friend and almost in parallel Tamira stopped being interested in food; she still eats some but she has completaly stopped stashing, which is very odd. I don't know if the hamster and her eating patterns are conected but it's the only major thing that has changed; but to be fair she had stopped attaccing her sister a few days before which I read as a good sing that Nifti had heald, but maby there was somethin more to it.
As mentioned before she is still VERY active, and she has eaten some but not as mutch as she would before, and now I worried that apart from the tumors ther coud be someting mutch worse going on.
For some backstory. She (Tamira) is a rescue and her parents had a petstore litter. For some months her sister (Nifti) had a respiratory infection that took three diffrent vets to solve. In the mine time Tamira became food aggressive and would bite her sister when they would eat colse; so I started to separate them douring feedings. The new pattern became Tamira eating some and stashing the rest for later snacks, and Nifti eating all she colud before her sister would come close.
Recently I found a mass, like a hard rice corne, near Tamiras neck (between her arm and base of the neck) and a week later a suspected mammary tumor on her side. I observed her for a week to be sure and called the vet who gave me an appointment for next week.
Two days ago a took in a hamster to take care of for a friend and almost in parallel Tamira stopped being interested in food; she still eats some but she has completaly stopped stashing, which is very odd. I don't know if the hamster and her eating patterns are conected but it's the only major thing that has changed; but to be fair she had stopped attaccing her sister a few days before which I read as a good sing that Nifti had heald, but maby there was somethin more to it.
As mentioned before she is still VERY active, and she has eaten some but not as mutch as she would before, and now I worried that apart from the tumors ther coud be someting mutch worse going on.