As most of you know, My rat Serena, who I bought and found out she was pregnant, gave birth to 6 bus on monday the 7th. Yesterday they were 3 days old, and all was fine. I found that there were 2 boys and 4 girls. But sadly, yesterday night, around 11ish, I went in to check in on the bubs and at first I thought all was well. I scooped them out, one by one, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.....but then I realized one was missing! I had to place mom in another cage as I searched the nursery for the lost bub....It was one of the males, who I'd affectionately named 'Bandit'. I searched and searched until sadly, I found him in the opposite corner, cold, blue and......sadly, dead. I don't know what happened, but he was stiff too, so he must have beed dead for a little while. His body showed no signs of abuse...there was no blood or anything. I cried a bit.....and could barely sleep, he was my favorite of the bunch. I don't know what happened! I know that they started crawling yesterday, some of them being able to reach insanely fast speeds for only being 3 days old, but I did notice he didn't squeak much. Maybe he crawled away and never squeaked for mama.......I just have no idea! I feel so bad, and I feel like its my fault because I didn't check up on them for a few hours, but I thought mama rat would be able to handle it. Maybe he was sick, but maybe not, I have no clue, but I'm simply stunned 
So I'm down a bub.....4 girls and only 1 boy, for a total of 6.......
I just thought I would share
Brittany
So I'm down a bub.....4 girls and only 1 boy, for a total of 6.......I just thought I would share
Brittany
