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Hi everyone! I’m planning on getting all of my rats neutered and I can’t seem to find a place in Michigan that will do it for less than $250 (I have 5 rats). please let me know if you know of any!

Hey guys I am very concerned and could use some help. i was cleaning my rats cage (I have 3 boys) and I noticed drops of blood all over some of the wood. There was a lot of drops, and I’m really concerned because I checked my rats and couldn’t seem to find any wounds. I saw a little bit of what...

Hey my little guy chester has apparently been growing an extra toenail that I just noticed today cause I was giving him a bath. He's been having issues with his balance lately and is over 2 years old, could this be whats causing that if he's going light on the foot or something? I'm just...

Hi, I have just gotten 4 rats, told all were girls. One is very obviously male, one very obviously female. The other two, I cannot differentiate. They are 4-5 weeks old. Here are pictures of all of them, please help me! I need to separate them!!

My rat Bean has recently (within the past month or so, I'd say) begun to make little chirping and squeaking noises when she's awake and about. To sort of preface this, she does have a mass on her chest which she will be getting surgery for, and has had two vet visits and at both visits, I was...

Hello! A couple days ago I dropped my 1 y/o rat, Froggie off at the vet to have a benign mammary mass removed. It was my first experience with surgery on a small animal so I was a bit nervous. The tumor was about the size of a walnut and it was starting to hinder her walking so I decided not...

My girl Nana is limping right now. She's a little over a year old. She isn't using her back right foot, I noticed it yesterday evening, she was doing fine before It was a little swollen yesterday but when I looked at it today the swelling had gone down a lot I thought it might be a sprain and...

. <— video My rat has been sneezing quite a bit since last night. Yesterday I changed the bedding so it might have been a little dusty. He seems fine everywhere else. No porphyrin, his breathing is normal, and he is behaving just fine.

Hi everyone! I am regularly seeing my usual vet of a couple years, but we're both stumped at this point. I am getting connected to a specialist this week, but wanted to see if anyone here has encountered this before. I will update with any findings. Crusty Hind Feet (photo taken today) Swollen...

I went to the vet the other day because my rat pepsi stopped using her back leg.She had a steroid shot and is on two medications.She has started having issues with the other leg too,she sort of walks with both feet dragging instead of with the bottom of her foot on the ground.Has anyone had a...

My rat has been having symptoms of a respiratory infection lately. She is still very active and seems to be her high energy self, just with the added stuffy nose sounds. I've been calling to all the vet clinics in the area though and was only able to get a appointment on Wednesday, which is...

My daughters rat has a cut/scratch of some sort on her tail and seems to be a little less active than usual. No other marks or issues other than not being as active.

I just posted about my rat Quinn having a tumor, but so does my rat Chonk. Chonk is a female that I estimate to be about 1 1/2, but I got her from the SPCA so the age is estimated. She recently developed a lump on her belly so I took her to the vet. The vet said it was a tumor, but it was very...

recently I changed my rats' bedding to aspen shavings as I think I may be allergic to my previous one. I researched the aspen shavings and videos recommended it, I even asked on here and I looked at reviews on sites and everything seemed fine with it. I switched over the bedding and as soon as I...

hello! my older rat Kili is have really lumpy poop? I'm usually use to smooth looking poop i've never seen anything lumpy before but I've also noticed he spends most of his time at the bottom of the cage so I'm worried he isn't feeling too well thanks!

7 h ago sometimes my rats smell, and i was wondering if it would be okay if i got a diffuser for them? i’m not sure what scent, but apparently lavender/thyme is good. are these okay for my boys? as far as we know, they have no health issues. we’ve had them since about april and they’ve been...

Hi So I got home today and as usual I took out my rats for a cuddle when I realised there were some bald patches on the sides of Willow’s face, one slightly less than the other. The patch which is the biggest literally has no hair, all you can see is skin. Willow lives with her sister Hazel who...

Help please!!! I think my rat had a stroke, she keeps wobbling and can't walk properly. I think she doesn't have proper mobility in her right side. She was in the hammock when I found her doing weird turns, I was immediately extremely worried as my last rat had to be put down because of a...

I broke down into tears today as I brought my third rat home. The pictures/description were so misleading. And I ended up buying a rat I didn't want. I drove 45 minutes and walked into this ladies house who kept baby ducks, a ferret, a number of reptiles and these huge birds. Place smelt awful...

Hey, so this is my first post so I’m not really sure what I’m doing here. I have a rat who is about 2 years old now and up until earlier this week he was super energetic and he seemed to go downhill really fast. I had to move him to a smaller single story cage because he was falling off the...