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  1. General Rat Topics
    This is definitely a complicated situation and I am a very new rat owner so please offer me any tips. I received my pet rat, Lucia, from a friend whose snake "rejected" the rat. Lucia would have been left outside and likely would have died on her own, so I told my friend I would keep her as a...
  2. Rat Health
    I just got my rat a few days ago and he’s been sneezing nonstop, any suggestions? Is this normal for rats who are put into new environments? How many days should I wait until I take him to a vet? I’m very worried for the little fellow and want him to be okay.
  3. General Rat Topics
    Hi guys, i have just bought a new rat to keep my other girl company as her friend unfortunately passed away i’m just wanting to make sure she’s a girl as i just bought her yesterday and am not to good at telling gender apart when there young. the pet store sold her to me as a girl
  4. Rat Health
    I have three rats, all girls. They have a large cage that I clean at least once a week. They never go without food or water, they have the correct bedding. Two of them are over 2½ years old, likely closer to 3, though i don't know for sure since they were rehomed and moved in with me around 4...
  5. Rat Health
    im considering getting two rats but I need to know something. my parents are divorced and I go in-between houses every 2 nights. my mom would clean/feed and water them while im gone at my dads house but I dont know if they would feel super lonely or something. they would both have each other to...
  6. Rat Health
    I cleaned the cut and put some neosporin but she keeps messing with it and making it bleed more please help me I tried getting a vet but they are all booked till 2weeks from now
  7. Rat Health
    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...
  8. Adoption Center
    Hello, I'm trying everywhere I can think of to try to get homes for my two boys. They are a couple months old and they are bonded, but not from the same litter. I think I may be allergic to the fur/dust and I need a good home for them. If you or anyone you know of is in the area and wants to...
  9. Rat Health
    My pet rat opal has a deep laceration where his leg and groin meets, the muscle bid visible and he will not stop picking at it despite us putting a cone on him and trying a good ol' fashioned sock, he somehow shimmies out of it. Vet just cleaned it and sent him home with no stitches. I asked why...
  10. Rat Health
    hey all! on Monday evening my rat, jasper was very Lethargic and had some Sort of fit and losses his Sense of balance to the point that i thought he was going to die that night, but he didnt and i was able to take him to the vets the following morning, and they Suspected it was a Pituitary...
  11. Rat Health
    hi! one of my rats who’s about a little over a year has had two seizures, they happened about 1 month apart. i learned that the food i have been feeding them has choleciferol/vitamin d-3which is essentially rat poison and could be causing the seizures(the food is Kaytee Forti Diet pro health). I...
  12. Rat Behavior
    Hi, I’m new to owning rats and have had mine for about three weeks now. I’ve been working on bonding and trust and handling with them. My girl, Mochi, is the boldest and has been okay with us picking her up and slowly making her way back into her habitat. I only ever do this sitting in front of...
  13. Rat Behavior
    Pet rat biting out of nowhere (please help, I dont know what to do) Hello! I bought my first pet rats (3 boys in total, aged between 6-8 weeks) last Saturday and brought them home. I left them alone over the night so that they could calm down. After that I slowly started to try and bond with...
  14. Rat Health
    Hi all! My two and a half year old rat, Jadzia, just recently fell ill with what I think is likely a respiratory infection. Although she has had it for a little while, and I started her on some supplements, which seemed to help for a while, all of a sudden she got worse. I woke up two days ago...
  15. Rat Behavior
    I recently adopted two little girls— Sniffer and Stevie from a breeder. When I brought them home, I played with them while my partner set up their cage (took a while— had to put construction fabric over it since the wire spacing was too large). Everything seemed really good— I’ve had four rats...
  16. General Rat Topics
    Hello again, second post for the day!! I have two new Ratties in my home and I am a first time owner. I would love some advice on a few things, any help would be SO appreciated. Here is a quick summary. I bought my ratties Friday and have had them a few days now. I have Cookie, who is my male...
  17. Rat Health
    Hey there. I’m new to this website but I need some advice. Can I safely keep a dying rat (he is bleeding out but as it is midnight I can’t take him to the vet) with his brother overnight in the cage? I think it would help comfort my rats, as Hu Li (my dying rat) seems to be stressed and can’t...
  18. Rat Health
    My rat French is a male dumbo who just turning 5 months. I recently was forced to give him a bath because he'd gotten something sticky in his fur during play time (still don't know what it was). When I gave him a bath I noticed he had a lot of little clump build ups on him all over his back and...
  19. Rat Health
    Hi everyone I need some advice. I had rats when I was very little, but I pretty much did everything wrong. I got rats again because I love them a lot. Obviously I'm not making the same mistakes twice so I got a big cage, bedding that won't be hard on their lungs, etc. and its been smooth sailing...
  20. 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...
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