I have a rat who is has been squinting her eyes for a while now and over the last few days has gotten very clingy. We took her to the vet and they said she was fine it was probably either stress or a parasite. we are currently waiting for the test to come back but i’m scared something is wrong...

I bought two baby rats about 2-3 weeks ago. Soon after i brought them home, one died of mega colon. We haven’t been able to get a companion for the remaining rat yet. Yesterday afternoon she started having watery feces. She had some cucumber two days ago and was reluctant to eat it but she ate...

Hello everyone! I am a kindergarten through 8th grade science teacher, and I am considering getting a couple of rats as pets. Now I make the distinction of ME getting the rats as pets because I find the treatment of many classroom pets abhorrent. I strongly believe that any pet that spends part...

So this will be a bit long. I currently have five rats. All of which are wild and female. My first and oldest rat Moishe is about to be 6 months. I work at a pet store and she was dropped off at a week old so I bottle fed her. She had severe malcolusion in her early months and had to have her...