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Pet Forum / Mammals / Rats / April 2007Rip Whiskers
My old grey hood rat, whiskers finally died while I was away, the rat sitter was a vet nurse and coundt detect any reason who she died, she was 3 years old and had been getting slow and sleepy in her later days. now their was 3 :-( > My old grey hood rat, whiskers finally died while I was away, the rat > sitter was a vet nurse and coundt detect any reason who she died, she was > 3 years old and had been getting slow and sleepy in her later days. > > now their was 3 :-( I'm so sorry to hear of your loss of Whiskers. Tracey > My old grey hood rat, whiskers finally died while I was away, the rat sitter > was a vet nurse and coundt detect any reason who she died, she was 3 years > old and had been getting slow and sleepy in her later days. > > now their was 3 :-( I'm so sorry... what a wonderful old girl, she must have given you so many memories.  SignatureJoanne Owned by 22 rats. Webshots: http://community.webshots.com/user/joanneb70 ------------------------------------------------------- ~Ignorance is not innocence but sin. *Robert Browning* I send you a hug of understanding. I lost Bo a few days ago and now her sister is ailing from the same. I am down to 4, soon to be three. They really are the best friends, aren't they. Enjoy the ones still with you. Love, Lynn kitty My old grey hood rat, whiskers finally died while I was away, the rat sitter was a vet nurse and coundt detect any reason who she died, she was 3 years old and had been getting slow and sleepy in her later days. now their was 3 :-( yeah, I wasn't too sure how to answer the question, but my rat sitter was going to do a complete autopsy on her, as she use to do half a million of them when she worked for the university, breeding, euthanising and conducting autopsies after experiments upon them. how would you take that? > My old grey hood rat, whiskers finally died while I was away, the rat > sitter was a vet nurse and coundt detect any reason who she died, she was > 3 years old and had been getting slow and sleepy in her later days. > > now their was 3 :-( How do other rats grieve the loss of their alpha rat? they all seem a bit depressed I think. > My old grey hood rat, whiskers finally died while I was away, the rat > sitter was a vet nurse and coundt detect any reason who she died, she was > 3 years old and had been getting slow and sleepy in her later days. > > now their was 3 :-( > How do other rats grieve the loss of their alpha rat? > > they all seem a bit depressed I think. I find that most will mope around but some will even get into scuffles because the alpha is not there to keep them in line. But it soon settles down. Give them extra cuddles!! SignatureJoanne Owned by 22 rats. Webshots: http://community.webshots.com/user/joanneb70 ------------------------------------------------------- ~Ignorance is not innocence but sin. *Robert Browning* I think thats whats going on, Bella the 1.5 year old I assumed would be alpha being older, but Raven only at about 8 months old she's as big if not bigger than her. still, the cage seems empty with out whiskers, my first rat >> How do other rats grieve the loss of their alpha rat? >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > because the alpha is not there to keep them in line. But it soon settles > down. Give them extra cuddles!! Cannibalizm? > How do other rats grieve the loss of their alpha rat? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > died, she was 3 years old and had been getting slow and sleepy in > > her later days. now their was 3 :-( |
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