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Pet Forum / Mammals / Rats / March 2005"24-hour bug" for ratties?
I'm not sure what to make of this... One of our rats, Stardust (15 month old male), was very ill yesterday -- he slept for most of the day, when I gave him a food block, he initially showed no interest, then very weakly chewed at it, taking over 30 minutes to eat it. He was very wobbly on his feet and was relatively hesitant to move at all, just wanted to stay where he was. He did not have any sounds of respiratory distress that I could detect. Last night, when I went to bed I honestly did not know whether he would still be with us in the morning. The good news is, today he was active, his appetite was back, and was acting relatively normally. We were happy about this, but I am certainly puzzled as to what was going on. Do rats get "24-hour bugs". I guess, from most of the discussions in here, I have developed the expectation that any health symptoms represent something catastrophic. Is it common for rats to be sick for a short time then get over it themselves? - Hans > I'm not sure what to make of this... > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > - Hans Hi Hans, I have noticed that from the symptoms you described, could have indicated stomach upset. I've noticed this with one of my boys after giving them a piece of banana. I didn't put two and two together until a couple days later when Jersy acted real weird after another piece of banana. So it could be something like an internal pain or it could be the beginning of something else. It's really hard to tell with these guys because they mask their pain so well. It's good that he quickly recovered.  SignatureJoanne Mom to 8 rats http://community.webshots.com/user/joanneb70 > > I'm not sure what to make of this... > > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > mask their pain so well. > It's good that he quickly recovered. I havent heard about 24hr bugs with rats either :-((. With tummy bugs, how can you tell if they have one? I feed my rats fruit everyday, they get a piece of apple, and a piece of banana, and sometimes will get a piece of mango too. Together with everything else I feed them. Can bananas and mango's cause them tummy upset? One thing with mine, they always seem to be hungry, no matter how much feed them. John. >> > I'm not sure what to make of this... >> > [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > > John. With Jersy, I noticed that he became very quiet, didn't move and was puffy. When I touched him he would do a small squeak. I knew something was wrong then. I took him out put him alone in a small cage to monitor his food and his poop and pee. It can be anything from obstruction to bladder infection. After two days of only rat blocks, everything was fine. So I put him back in the big cage. After their banana treat, Jersy became the same as before. So I knew it had to be the banana. No more bananas and he's completely fine again. I don't know about mangos but I do know that bananas that are not ripe enough can cause stomach upset to rats. SignatureJoanne Mom to 8 rats http://community.webshots.com/user/joanneb70 > >> > I'm not sure what to make of this... > >> > [quoted text clipped - 47 lines] > again. I don't know about mangos but I do know that bananas that are not > ripe enough can cause stomach upset to rats. Thanks Joanne, I'll have to be more careful with bananas I think. I don't like unripe ones, I usually eat them when they are covered in brown spots, really ripe. If they aren't when I get them, I leave them next to an avocado, and that ripens them really quickly. That's something else they get often too. John > I havent heard about 24hr bugs with rats either :-((. With tummy bugs, how > can you tell if they have one? I feed my rats fruit everyday, they get a [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > John. As Joanne says, it's just the green bananas to be wary of. But maybe like us, some rats have food intolerences to certain foods??? I mainly feed my rats dried fruit - they particularly like banana and I recently bought them a bag of banana chips covered in yoghurt which they have as a treat every few days. They love dried mango and it has never had any adverse effects on them so I think you're fine with the mango. You mention in your other post about feeding them avocado often, this fruit is good for them but is loaded with calories so you may want to cut back a little on that. Avocado is one of the foods that is good to give to rats that have lost a lot of weight to help build them up again. I have read that the stone of the avocado is posionous, and last year panicked like mad when one of my rats managed to sneak into the kitchen bin, rescue an avocado stone and proceed to eat a large chunk of it - it didn't seem to bother him, thank goodness, but it's not to be recommended! Tracey > > I havent heard about 24hr bugs with rats either :-((. With tummy bugs, how > > can you tell if they have one? I feed my rats fruit everyday, they get a [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Tracey Thanks for the info, I really appreciate it. John. > I'm not sure what to make of this... > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > - Hans I wonder if he had a slight stroke? Anyway glad to hear he's ok again! Tracey |
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