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  1. Rat Health
    Hi everyone. This is my first post on this forum. I was looking for some advice. We have a 2 year 3 month old boy who is just the absolute sweetest. We discovered a lump just by his hind leg and this was confirmed to be an abscess. Just over a week ago the vet did a needle aspiration and got...
  2. Rat Health
    Billy has developed a lump in an unusual spot as of the past two days. The skin looks red and inflamed, though I suspect that its due to him constantly scratching at the lump as it must be irritating him. I've been treating him with anti-inflammatories and antibiotics, but the growth hasn't...
  3. Rat Health
    My rat is a 2 year old female named Twig. She had this big golf ball sized abscess that formed on her left cheek and fell off. It left a big crater and scabbed up. Then another abscess formed behind her ear, fell off, and now there is another hole filled with chunky puss. It is like draining out...
  4. Rat Health
    Hi! Thanks for clicking on my post, I need help, so I noticed an abscess on the left side of my female rats face on October 8th 2022. She is 2 years old. Her name is Twig. The abscess grew really quickly and scabbed up. We were gonna put her down because we thought it was a zymbals gland tumor...
  5. Rat Health
    My pet Ghost is around 6 months old. He was bitten in the leg by a much larger rat when he was around 2 months old. Over time that bite mark turned into what looked like an abscess. A couple of months later, Ghost developed a respiratory infection when a new rat was introduced to his cage...
  6. Rat Health
    Long story short, I’m at a bit of a loss. Maybe forty or fifty minutes ago I thought 2/3 of my rats had a lump under their right foreleg. I was petting Barrat and thought I felt something weird, so I checked Jordan and Harris as well. Harris seems fine, as always, but I thought I could see...
  7. Rat Health
    Hey my rat got this thing on her face overnight 3 days ago. Scab just formed last night. Any ideas? I’m hoping it’s an abscess… l
  8. Rat Health
    Hi. one of my rats, Appa, had an abscess a few months ago and the vet drained it. it didn't heal with a scab it "healed" with like grey and kinda spiky stuff. my Mom said it was probably the rats playing too rough or him grooming himself and it peeling then healing, peeling then healing etc. I...
  9. General Rat Topics
    My rat Edgar keeps getting cysts. He's had around 3 now, each time they drain naturally and heal up in a couple of days, and hasn't had any major issues or huge behavior changes until now. he had a huge cyst on his neck that popped green puss recently when I held him, the first couple of days I...
  10. Rat Health
    hi all! my red-eyed boy enzo's abscess burst last night. I noticed the abscess a while ago but thought it was a tumor (thank god it's not) and couldn't get into the vet. there's pus, blood, and it smells awful. I wouldn't have a problem flushing it out, but he's very skittish. he lets me pet...
  11. Rat Health
    HELP!!! My poor little fern is on antibiotics and anti inflammatory already for a respiratory infection and possible lung inflammation, but now the right side of her face is swollen and her breath is absolutely foul, it hurts her when I touch it what is this what do I do? Could it be a tumour...
  12. Rat Health
    ..( more /biggerpics at very bottom ) .I'm trying to figure out if my girl has an abscess or tumor. I went away for 2weeks and left someone in charge of Mt rats. I came back about a week ago. They never cleaned the cage AND PUT WOOD CHIPS ON TOP INSTEAD OF CLEANING( they have hamsters). There's...
  13. Rat Health
    While petting my oldest girl I noticed a lump under her ear. You can’t see it but you can definitely feel it. It can easily move, It’s kinda hard and It seems like It’s a bit smaller than a pea. Can someone help me identify what it is? Is it a tumor? A cyst? A face abscess? Ps: I have a vet...
  14. Rat Health
    Her gross, necrotic abscess opened last night. I cleaned it with a warm washcloth and used a syringe with saline to clean it out. I posted this same picture on reddit, and someone made me feel really awful, telling me to take her straight to the emergency vet or she was going to die. She's on...
  15. Rat Health
    My 2 year old pet rat, Mori, had surgery on a very large mammary tumor by her genital area removed four days ago. On day two of healing, I noticed one of her stitches (incisions?) Was turning black. I took her into the vet urgent care and he said we had caught the infection early and gave us...
  16. Rat Health
    Hi! My hairless rat suddenly got this hard lump under his eye a few days ago. I separated him from my other rats because he likes to start fights & it gets him hurt too easily. My initial thought is that this is an abscess but it hasn't popped yet. I haven’t seen pics online of an abscess in the...
  17. Rat Health
    TL;DR: lump appeared overnight. Rat is from pet store with undisclosed health history. Lump is hard and does not seem to cause rat pain. No pus or drainage from lump or penis. Still eating, drinking, playing with cage mate. Is this a cyst, a preputial abscess, a regular abscess or a tumour? I...
  18. Rat Health
    Hi everyone. I took my rat to the vet last night after an incident but the vet did not have a clear idea of what had happened. Please read this, and if your rat has had similar symptoms and you have any other information that you think could help me or that I could pass along to my vet, please...
  19. Rat Health
    Hi! I noticed this lump on my rat Pepper last night, I’ve only had rats for a few years and this is new to me. Is this an abscess? How should I proceed? It doesn’t seem to be bothering him or cause trouble when he eats. It’s just in an awkward spot. I want to try to avoid taking him to the vet...
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