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Fleece bedding for rats, is it the same as it is for guinea pigs? A layer of fleece over layers of towels? Does anyone here use it for rats?
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May 17, 2011 13:13
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Big Bug Hug posted:Those are some cuties Aerobe Really? Because for guinea pigs I've been told it is some of the easier things to keep the stink down because you can vacuum up the poop.
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May 17, 2011 15:40
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Still trying to read up on rats more but they definitely seem in my future. Why aren't rat breeders as disdained by this forum as most breeders of seemingly every other pet are? Are there just more good breeders? Or not that many in rescues?
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May 18, 2011 12:55
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Thanks superconsndar. I didn't mean that all breeders are discouraged here, it is just as you said for other animals the rescue angle is pushed much harder, but I guess that is due to access to rescues for those animals.
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May 18, 2011 13:24
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My wife just said one of our rats has suddenly started losing her balance. She was showing a tiny bit of porphirin for the last two days but we found no URI going on. She is getting in touch with our rat vet now. Seems like the options are maybe stroke, brain tumor, or ear infection. She is 1 1/2 years old, which I'm not sure but am guessing is old enough that stroke or tumor is a likely possibility?
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Jun 18, 2014 16:42
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Vet says pituitary tumor. Our local rat rescue lady says that they have a treatment plan that works about 80% of the time to increase their lifespan by 6-12 months, involving just getting the size of the tumor down using bromocriptine (I think?). She isn't in pain yet so we will give it a shot. I'm just glad we have someone like her to walk us through it all.
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Jun 18, 2014 18:41
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Chin Strap posted:My wife just said one of our rats has suddenly started losing her balance. She was showing a tiny bit of porphirin for the last two days but we found no URI going on. She is getting in touch with our rat vet now. Seems to have been heatstroke. We have just recently moved and didn't think the temperature was bad enough for that. We have a window AC unit in now, and our rat is almost 100 percent better.
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Jun 22, 2014 14:47
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dovetaile posted:Hey all, minor head-swaying (just when he's on ledges and stuff) in a <1 year old male PEW rat, yeah or nay? Does he look like he is scanning? It is their way of depth perception. The pink eyed and ruby rats do it.
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Jul 2, 2014 03:43
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Is there a rat rescue somewhere decent?
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Sep 9, 2014 16:35
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Guy Mann posted:Yeah, I just lost Yayo the other day after only 6 months. He was a shrimpy feeder rat who had always had respiratory problems and I guess the sudden cold snap was a bit too much for him to handle. I've found that the brackets on the space pod tend to break under the weight of a lot of rats. If you want to make it last longer use some big binder clips to keep it hooked to the cage.
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Jan 14, 2018 22:35
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My 2y 10m old that was more tumor than rat at that point died the other day. We had two tumors removed earlier in her life, but the time the latest came she was too old, had no use of her back legs, didn't want to subject her to more surgery. Also her teeth were hosed up and we had to regularly clip them and give her baby food. I swear up until her last day though she still kept trying to climb the side of the cage with just her front legs and managed to do it more often than not. We watched Willard in her honor that night.
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Sep 9, 2019 15:50
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Jaded Burnout posted:"this [metacam] is honey flavoured so there'll be no trouble getting him to take it", says the vet nurse Yeah you learn quick that the trick is they only really have front teeth to guard their mouth so you sneak in from the side of the mouth.
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Jan 15, 2020 15:04
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Animal-Mother posted:Despite how Web 1.0 this website looks, these guys make great cages: http://www.martinscages.com/rats.html our Our rats run the wheel all the time. No hamster ball things though.
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Mar 13, 2020 21:24
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God I couldn't trust my girls like that. I feel like they'd just bolt. And we've socialized them pretty well.
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Apr 7, 2020 16:13
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Jack Trades posted:Pancake is the best mood. Flat rat
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Aug 14, 2020 20:23
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Jan 19, 2021 13:29
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 Our carrier while I was cage cleaning
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Jul 19, 2021 18:07
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Yeah Doxy is like step 0 for rat URI.
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Sep 21, 2021 16:29
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In our area we have a exotics vet that used to be the head vet of the zoo. Now he just works out of the back of a local vet office 2 days a week and you can only schedule by emailing his assistant directly. They tell you when to show up but are often times an hour+ behind. But he knows his stuff for rats and guinea pigs and other exotics, and he is like less than half the rate of the only other rat vet in the area I really trust. Was $150 yesterday for examining one old rats abcess (decided not to mess with it surgically and just try amoxicillin), and trying tumor removal on the other old rat (unfortunately too metasticized in her belly and wasn't taking well to anesthesia to get out the benign one by one of her legs, so she's just palliative care now).
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Mar 9, 2022 17:24
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Jaded Burnout posted:My clothes are still full of holes, I assume they would also chew holes if they got onto your bed or whatever? I have a hoodie which I had effectively donated to them and I only keep it now as some avant garde fashion since it's the very definition of "ratty". It's the pet person version of the "having to attend the final for a class you didn't remember you were registered for" dream.
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Jack Trades posted:Every morning I curse my mortal form for not having enough hands to pet all my rats at the same time. Should have taken the extra limbs mutation.
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