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6 week Rat injured on the tail near her butt. Just got her I don’t know if my other girl did this or what. What should I do.

I think my boy hurt his hind leg or hip?? He is dragging it and moving around, he will only put a little bit of pressure on it. He isn't squealing in pain or anything and is eating and drinking but is just having trouble moving a bit. I can squeeze the area with no squeal and hes still letting...

Hellooo!! So I just got a new rat since one of my last ones died :/ and yea but I put them in the same cage and they don't seem to like each other?? there both Adult fancy rats the new one(pluto) is bigger than my old one(Milo) A friend suggested I put a blanket over the cage and let Pluto get...

I am a little worried about Pilgore. He was out playing on my bed like usual. But when i had to put him and his brother Harold in the cage again. Pilgore started pooping on my bed and they were outside for an hour. Harold was easy i just picked him up super quickly and dropped him in a sweater...

One of my rats, Pickle, had a crazy mood swing and attacked my other rat. They do fight often, but tiny scraps that are over quickly and neither is ever really hurt. Today however, Pickle took a chunk out of my other rat's, Twitch, leg. Neither of my rats had ever bitten a person until a few...

Two of my girls got into a fight and my older girl got a bad injury on the side of her body. She looks like she’s in pain idk what to do. Should I call the vet for stitches? Should I bandage her injury ? I’m going to separate her from the others but I really don’t know what else to do Here’s a...

I’m hoping for help with a horrible situation where one of our new babies had her arm pulled through the cage bars by an adult rat and had her arm injured. She is very energetic (running, climbing the cage walls, etc) but she is dragging her front right leg around and not using it at all. We’ve...

So John, my oldest gal, has a lymphatic malformation (basically her lymph nodes firing off excessively, so it's a big pocket of fluid under her arm) and I'm wondering if anyone has dealt with this before and knows anything to help keep it down while we're waiting for the vet appointment on...