i need help. we have scoured the internet trying to figure out what happened to our girls.
a while back one of our girl rats died. it was VERY sudden, i was cleaning their cage and one minute she was crawling around by my feet just fine, then the next she was laying limp on the ground. she seemed like she was choking, it was very fast. she had he mouth open and was kind of gasping but no air coming in or out, it was making kind of a clicking noise. then she was gone. i was so upset, and i thought that even though it is rare for rats to choke and die from it, that that was what had happened.
today the same thing happened to another one, almost exactly the same way. one second she was fine, the next she was limp, then gasping, then gone.
can anyone explain this or have any idea what it could have been? we ruled out the possibility that they ate something poisonous because they spend alot of time running around and theyve been over every inch of that room dozens of times.

a while back one of our girl rats died. it was VERY sudden, i was cleaning their cage and one minute she was crawling around by my feet just fine, then the next she was laying limp on the ground. she seemed like she was choking, it was very fast. she had he mouth open and was kind of gasping but no air coming in or out, it was making kind of a clicking noise. then she was gone. i was so upset, and i thought that even though it is rare for rats to choke and die from it, that that was what had happened.
today the same thing happened to another one, almost exactly the same way. one second she was fine, the next she was limp, then gasping, then gone.
can anyone explain this or have any idea what it could have been? we ruled out the possibility that they ate something poisonous because they spend alot of time running around and theyve been over every inch of that room dozens of times.