Paint, the male of our pair of darling ratties is dead 
he came home monday night, and was neutered tuesday morning. he seemed fine except that he wasnt eating much, but was still pretty chipper, so we took him back to the vet and she gave him some pain meds and fed him a bit of stuff, and he seemed to be doing so much better, at 7 this morning we had him out and he was running about and playing with us as per his usual and seemed to be eating a bit more, but at 8:15 when my little boy went to check on him before school, he was acting strangely,moving very jerkily and acting distressed and then he seemed like he was having convulsions or choking and had blood at his nose, a few seconds later he went limp, we rushed him to the emergency vet, but it was too late. they say he had pulmonary oedema(sp?) but they dont know what happened (seizure,blood clot, choking, numerous possibilities) now i have a little boy who is bawling (paint was his rat) and i'm not too far from it myself cause he's so upset. and i dont know what to do, we were going to bring kuro home next friday after paint had healed from his surgery, but ....now i dont know whether to do it sooner or hold off a bit. and should i see if one of their litter mates would be acceptable to my son for keeping kuro company or just keep her as an only rat? we only brought him home monday, but my son picked him when he was only a week or so old, before he even had his eyes open, and we've been going to play with them a few times a week since then,even the vet remarked on how well socialized he was. he was such a good friendly rat and he was very clean and well taken care of and my son loved Paint a lot and is heartbroken now. *BAWLS* he was just gonna be two months old tomorrow! it's not fair. and even though the vet said we did everything we could and he was well taken care of and it had to have been something that happened very suddenly it doesnt make us FEEL any better
Paint - Gone too Soon
4/01/07 - 5/31/07
he came home monday night, and was neutered tuesday morning. he seemed fine except that he wasnt eating much, but was still pretty chipper, so we took him back to the vet and she gave him some pain meds and fed him a bit of stuff, and he seemed to be doing so much better, at 7 this morning we had him out and he was running about and playing with us as per his usual and seemed to be eating a bit more, but at 8:15 when my little boy went to check on him before school, he was acting strangely,moving very jerkily and acting distressed and then he seemed like he was having convulsions or choking and had blood at his nose, a few seconds later he went limp, we rushed him to the emergency vet, but it was too late. they say he had pulmonary oedema(sp?) but they dont know what happened (seizure,blood clot, choking, numerous possibilities) now i have a little boy who is bawling (paint was his rat) and i'm not too far from it myself cause he's so upset. and i dont know what to do, we were going to bring kuro home next friday after paint had healed from his surgery, but ....now i dont know whether to do it sooner or hold off a bit. and should i see if one of their litter mates would be acceptable to my son for keeping kuro company or just keep her as an only rat? we only brought him home monday, but my son picked him when he was only a week or so old, before he even had his eyes open, and we've been going to play with them a few times a week since then,even the vet remarked on how well socialized he was. he was such a good friendly rat and he was very clean and well taken care of and my son loved Paint a lot and is heartbroken now. *BAWLS* he was just gonna be two months old tomorrow! it's not fair. and even though the vet said we did everything we could and he was well taken care of and it had to have been something that happened very suddenly it doesnt make us FEEL any betterPaint - Gone too Soon
4/01/07 - 5/31/07
