whirlytwirly
Well-Known Member
Some half-wit sold a friend of someone I work with two "male" rats....and you guessed it, one was a boy and the girl Narnia got pregnant. They were going to take them both back to the pet shop (the parents didn't want them keeping rats any more (deros!) so I took them in instead *sigh*.
Narnia was huge, she wieghed 440g on Friday.
Yesterday I had the MOST stressful day worrying about my poor girl . Narnia starting spotting at 7.30am (right before I had to goto work). She seemed distrssed and didn't deliver her first pup until about 4 in the afternoon. I rang the vets in my area but no-one wanted to touch a pregnant rat.....no-one knew anymore than I do which wasn't helpful.
I didn't get home from work until 6.30pm. She's still really fat! She had 7 babies. 3 were dead in the nest....two were quite obviously deformed/mangled looking. Of the four that were left, 3 looked okay but one looked all bruised and squashed up.....
Overnight she seems to have eaten two, so now there is only two left.
If there anything I should be doing for her? I know I've probably got to let nature take its course but I hate seeing the little things suffer and Narnia being all stressed.
Tracy
Narnia was huge, she wieghed 440g on Friday.
Yesterday I had the MOST stressful day worrying about my poor girl . Narnia starting spotting at 7.30am (right before I had to goto work). She seemed distrssed and didn't deliver her first pup until about 4 in the afternoon. I rang the vets in my area but no-one wanted to touch a pregnant rat.....no-one knew anymore than I do which wasn't helpful.
I didn't get home from work until 6.30pm. She's still really fat! She had 7 babies. 3 were dead in the nest....two were quite obviously deformed/mangled looking. Of the four that were left, 3 looked okay but one looked all bruised and squashed up.....
Overnight she seems to have eaten two, so now there is only two left.
If there anything I should be doing for her? I know I've probably got to let nature take its course but I hate seeing the little things suffer and Narnia being all stressed.
Tracy