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Thanks guys! That was a really cute article. I also got a ton of support from all the office people at the vet, they were very cool about it. 
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That was a nice article. Sorry for your loss CompactFanny. 
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  Cheedo the Furpile and Toast the Knowing have arrived. How will Smaslug take to the new arrivals?  
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Oct 20, 2016 14:10
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Aww, ratty friends. 
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Oct 20, 2016 14:25
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Pirouette and Noisette in their sputnik :  
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Moving in has gone fairly well. The large, comfortable bed had to be taken away because it was too good a prize and was causing fights even though none of them had ever seen it before. Toast has taken to becoming Smaslug's devoted servant. Cheedo remains uncertain but is coming around, Toast keeps running between them to deliver messages of reconciliation. Smaslug has yet to realise that she is the largest and is supposed to be dominant, although she does occasionally run across the cage and use her massive butt as a swinging bludgeon, resulting in extremely bafflement and such. Smaslug and Toast are sleeping together in the sputnik. Cheedo is... not. 
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Oct 20, 2016 23:52
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 I think they're friends now. Count the rats!
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:
Four? There's the gray nose, white head, brown blanket rat, and another brown rat butt.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Moving in has gone fairly well. The large, comfortable bed had to be taken away because it was too good a prize and was causing fights even though none of them had ever seen it before. Toast has taken to becoming Smaslug's devoted servant. Cheedo remains uncertain but is coming around, Toast keeps running between them to deliver messages of reconciliation. Smaslug has yet to realise that she is the largest and is supposed to be dominant, although she does occasionally run across the cage and use her massive butt as a swinging bludgeon, resulting in extremely bafflement and such. I love it when rats sleep like that. It's so ridiculous.
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My downstairs roommate smokes what seems to be a half pack to a full pack a day of cigarettes. Sometimes, he smokes in the room directly below where my rats are. That room (where he sometimes smokes) is a common area, but I don't want to be a complete hardass since he is the homeowner. Is this a cause for concern with their respiratory systems or am I over-worrying?
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It's cause for concern for everyone's health, not just the rats. Might not be anything you can do about it short of moving. Maybe get a heavy duty air purifier for their room or something? It's 2016 and people still smoke cigarettes in their house 
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Oh no.  
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AbrahamLincolnLog posted:Has anyone ever experienced suddenly becoming allergic to their rats? I've had my boys for a few months now, with no issues, but lately whenever I play with them, my arms turn bright red and itchy wherever they touch me like I suddenly developed a huge rash, and only where they touch. I found I would get allergic reactions if they scratched me, which was like everyday. But simply petting them was perfectly fine. I just livid with it.
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Oct 30, 2016 18:24
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 Oh my god, this is adorable.
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this site doesn't deserve my cute pet pics
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Perfect.  That would probably fit great for the rat boxing as well. http://vmashup.com/UWznebXF Jack Trades fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Nov 5, 2016 |
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So uh I got a couple girls out of a pet store last week and today I discovered why one of them is so fat! She's not fat, she just was pregnant. So now I have something like ten rats. I've done the basic reading so I know about seperating the sexes etc. but are there less obvious things I should know? My two don't seem very well socialised yet.
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Here's one of three of my crazy rats. Peach Pie, in a rare state of slumber.
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Obliterati posted:So uh I got a couple girls out of a pet store last week and today I discovered why one of them is so fat! She's not fat, she just was pregnant. So now I have something like ten rats. I've done the basic reading so I know about seperating the sexes etc. but are there less obvious things I should know? My two don't seem very well socialised yet. Never bred rats myself, so all I can do is link you to some basic info on the subject.
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 It should be illegal to be this cute.
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Mom Party posted:Here's one of three of my crazy rats. Peach Pie, in a rare state of slumber. You can tell that this rat lives in a good home based on the face alone. That's a sleepy but relaxed, worried free rat you got there. A+ rat parenting.
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this site doesn't deserve my cute pet pics
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The past weeks have not been kind to my poor rat, 'Lil Bit. It started with a scratch to his face, I think caused by a cage mate walking on top of his head in the hammock zone of the cage. I don't think it was caused during play or rough and tumble, because I've never seen this trio argue like my others have. He's not the alpha, or the beta, and has never seemed inclined to want to be. Anyway, I kind of put it out of my head, as it wasn't his first scratch, and it also did not look deep. Or infected. He is a hairless rat, and for better or for worse that means he has accumulated a nasty patchwork of scars and scratches that I think all rats get but few show through their fur. It all seemed very par for the course? Then I noticed one morning that the porphyrin near his left eye had accumulated in a weird way. I went to work, and when I came home, it clearly hadn't dispersed and was significantly worse. There was a white spec in his eye too which was new and seemed bad. I set an appointment at the vet for the next day. They gave him a once over and put some sort of fancy goop in his eye to see if it would show damage under black light. Sure enough, perforated cornea and the start of an infection. They gave me some antibiotic eye drops and set a follow-up appointment 7 days later. I think all my previous experience giving my ratties their medicine, usually in their food, under prepared me for how God drat hard it is to put eye drops in the eyes of a rat who does not want to have eye drops put in his eyes. It was easy to do at first. But he learned and feared. And then I had to bribe with food. And then the little rear end in a top hat learned that trick and would fight the process. Then I started distracting him. Then I resorted to oven mitts. It was an odyssey. I'm also beating myself up a bit because I occasionally poked him in the damage eye with the dropper not zero times during his struggles. In my head that made things worse. And then his eye started swelling up badly, so I brought him back in. They put the magic black light goo into his eye again and it turned out his middle lens had fallen out of place and sank to the back of his eye. This accounted for the swelling. They sent me home with something Optixcare Eye Lube, which is wonderfully named, and a date this week for enucleation this Thursday. Monday, while playing with him, I noticed that a pair of abscesses had formed. One near his genitals and another on his leg. Tiny little openings, one bleeding a bit. Not eye related. They look like cysts that opened. I called the vet again, and the receptionist told me to mention it when I dropped him off the night before his surgery. That day was today. They told me that they would be doing some tests to see if it's cancerous before proceeding with his eye surgery. Which really, really kinda pissed me off. Maybe I'm being unfair? I want to give them the benefit of the doubt and pretend that they just really want my little ratty to live, and to discuss options for the cancer after dealing with his eye. But if it's cancer, and he has two big tumors, I figure it might be best to just focus on quality of life instead of subjecting him to a big operation anyway? I also get the feeling that the vet really just wanted my money and figured hey, eye operation first, this guy has deep pockets. I am probably just distraught and unfair. Makes me glad I live in a place where human healthcare is free though, let me tell you that. Now I am waiting for a phone call tomorrow to see what's what. I hope it's just normal cysts. Praying in fact. I don't want him to die.  A glamour shot as a precious baby.  Sleepy.  Grooming the alpha rat, Eclipse.  Maybe my favourite picture, him saying hello. So here's to 'Lil Bit, my precious little rat. Edit: Fixed my pictures. pesty13480 fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Nov 17, 2016 |
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Cute rat babies. :3 I hope they will be alright.
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Two bits of good news. Growths weren't cancerous, and he woke up from his eye surgery and is, according to the veterinarian, eating and being relatively normal. If I am lucky, I get to bring him home tomorrow.
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pesty13480 posted:Two bits of good news. Best wishes, man!
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He's home now, and a little worse for the wear. I am a very thankful person right now. Two weeks until the stitching comes out! 
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Happy Thanksgiving, rat!goons! Have a Ham! 
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Nov 24, 2016 19:57
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Aw hello lil rat dude. Happy turkey day
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Did anyone share some turkey with their little ratties?
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DrNewton posted:Did anyone share some turkey with their little ratties? I did! He enjoyed it quite a bit.
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We did! They had their own little thanksgivng with vegetables and chocolate pie and everything
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this site doesn't deserve my cute pet pics
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Nov 26, 2016 01:37
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I shared turkey with my girls... last month, during the proper Canadian holiday. 
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 My girls got some cheese and tomatoes, and then a chocolate chip each for dessert.
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I recently got 3 young girls and I have them in a Critter Nation cage (holy poo poo it's massive) with fleece covers on the pans. Despite having plenty of nice cozy hiding spots, they keep ripping holes in the fleece and chilling under it, but I'm worried that it might be bad for them to hang out under there with their piss/poo poo, like some kind of ammonia hotbox. Fleece isn't exactly the most breathable material. I'm trying to litter train them, but in the meantime, is this something I should be concerned about? Am I overreacting?
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Nah, they'll be fine. Sometimes rats in the wild will use ammonia to act as a heating system for their nests, and honestly if rat pee was dangerous I would have died a long time ago.
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this site doesn't deserve my cute pet pics
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I'm going to link this again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKjvz26FVZs It's the only good rat documentary that I managed to find. Plenty of cute ratties warming themselves up with pee and there's only one baby-eating on screen.
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I enjoyed that documentary, thanks!
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