Sorry if this has been asked before.
We got one of our female rats, Chile, from a pet store about a month ago. After we had her for a few days, my boyfriend realized she was pregnant. About a week later she has the babies. First she had 5, but later that night my boyfriend found 2 more babies, but they were dead and kind of deformed, I guess. He said one was only a head or something, and the other one wasn't fully formed at the bottom.
Anyway, a few days later, one of the babies died. We just thought it might be because it was her first litter, but we weren't sure.
Then they started getting fur and everything, and another baby died. When we found it, she had started to eat it. I was devistated.
So then she only had 3 babies, and last night we found 2 of them dead. Now I'm really upset. She only has one baby left, and it's still alive right now, but I don't know for how long. They all had fur and were starting to crawl around. They seemed pretty healthy, too. I don't think it's the mother killing them because there aren't bite marks or anything like that, but I don't know what's wrong with them. I'm so afraid this last one is going to die.
Does anyone know what might be causing it? I don't have the money to take them to a vet right now.
We got one of our female rats, Chile, from a pet store about a month ago. After we had her for a few days, my boyfriend realized she was pregnant. About a week later she has the babies. First she had 5, but later that night my boyfriend found 2 more babies, but they were dead and kind of deformed, I guess. He said one was only a head or something, and the other one wasn't fully formed at the bottom.
Anyway, a few days later, one of the babies died. We just thought it might be because it was her first litter, but we weren't sure.
Then they started getting fur and everything, and another baby died. When we found it, she had started to eat it. I was devistated.
So then she only had 3 babies, and last night we found 2 of them dead. Now I'm really upset. She only has one baby left, and it's still alive right now, but I don't know for how long. They all had fur and were starting to crawl around. They seemed pretty healthy, too. I don't think it's the mother killing them because there aren't bite marks or anything like that, but I don't know what's wrong with them. I'm so afraid this last one is going to die.
Does anyone know what might be causing it? I don't have the money to take them to a vet right now.