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I bought two young male rats, couldn't be more than a month old. They are very small. At least I have never started with rats this size. Anyway, I have only had them for about two weeks. I know the pet store isn't the best place in the world to get them necessarily, but they were the only two their size and they are cute, so I bought them anyway. As one could guess, they weren't very well socialized. Today, Kirk(my beige hooded) showed me that they weren't trying to bite me, they were trying to groom me. I let them groom me, and now I am wondering if that was a bad idea.
You see, I thought it would be safer to sanitize my hands before playing with my rats, so as not to make them sick from germs. I have dogs and cats, and I just wanted to be safe. Well, the stuff I've been using is that Purell liquid, that no water stuff.
I wouldn't have thought twice about it except that after Kirk started grooming my hand, well when I decided to leave them alone for a bit, I noticed Kirk started sneezing(sniffling? hiccuping?) or something. It's this little errf! sound, squeaky but not really. I don't know maybe I am over reacting. I'm just worried and I just wondered if anyone knew what it was.
You see, I thought it would be safer to sanitize my hands before playing with my rats, so as not to make them sick from germs. I have dogs and cats, and I just wanted to be safe. Well, the stuff I've been using is that Purell liquid, that no water stuff.
I wouldn't have thought twice about it except that after Kirk started grooming my hand, well when I decided to leave them alone for a bit, I noticed Kirk started sneezing(sniffling? hiccuping?) or something. It's this little errf! sound, squeaky but not really. I don't know maybe I am over reacting. I'm just worried and I just wondered if anyone knew what it was.