Lise
Well-Known Member
Okay, as you all know I have no experience with elderly rats and old age since my previous rats all had to be PTS at young ages.
Tevy is now 2 1/2 years old. She has over the past week become very very very slow moving. So slow it almost looks painful. She no longer stashes her lab blocks (which she would ALWAYS do immediately), and is eating hardly any lab blocks now. She only comes out of her hidey holes occasionally, mainly late in the evening when I put out baby cereal & dog food for her. She just doesn't seem like her normal self at all.
Is this normal for old age, and could go on for awhile longer? Or should I be taking these as signs that she isn't going to be with us for much longer?
Tevy is now 2 1/2 years old. She has over the past week become very very very slow moving. So slow it almost looks painful. She no longer stashes her lab blocks (which she would ALWAYS do immediately), and is eating hardly any lab blocks now. She only comes out of her hidey holes occasionally, mainly late in the evening when I put out baby cereal & dog food for her. She just doesn't seem like her normal self at all.
Is this normal for old age, and could go on for awhile longer? Or should I be taking these as signs that she isn't going to be with us for much longer?