Pet Forum / Mammals / Rats / August 2003

I'm not sure exactly what's up, but my older boy rat, Ed, seems to
have something wrong with one of his back legs.  It's not bumblefoot,
from what I can tell, but he isn't using the foot.  He doesn't walk
around much anymore, and I'm not sure what's wrong.  I'm really

I just noticed a lump in pinks leg. It's a bit close to her mammary glands.
Can rats get mastitis?
**Butterfly

My beautiful Shai came to live with me in May of 2002. I bought him at a
Barrie pet store, after seeing him cramped in a 10 gallon tank with his two
brothers and two older rats. The older rats where picking on the young ones
that were always cowering in a corner. So I bought Shai ...

our oldes girl rattie has very dry poos. she also has a big belly. Any ideas
what we can do to help releve her belly and get her poos back to normal?
Thans
Garth

Tracey told me about this newsgroup, so here I am !
I'm 20, I live in France (so be indulgent with my english mistakes !)
I have 5 male rats (2 of them have respiratory disease...).
Glad to "be" here !

Just wanted to let everyone know that I've added new fun rat pics to my
webshots.
http://community.webshots.com/album/86992202ykWJzg

I was at the pet store today and spotted this old fellow by himself in a
cage.  He's a real cutie, too -all black dumbo and is quite large.  He was a
sweetie and my son and I held him with no problem.  The two guys in the pet
store said that he was a gentleman.  He sure was lovable. ...

Following on from my post a few weeks ago (2 litters, 29 ratlets!!), my wife
has just updated the website with new fuzzy baby photo goodness!! We`ve got
a few keepers (GMR strikes again) and a few reservations already but if
anyone in the UK fancies a couple of new cuties to expand ...

Of course, we already knew rats have complicated emotions, but this
morning I was reading some behavioral studies (articles are upstairs so
I'm going to paraphrase badly without the citation). The set-up for the
rats was this: They had to run a long straight course to a food reward.

After discussion with a friend about our rats' strange taste for matches,
I thought it might be helpful to provide them with a supplement, in case
they are pandering after a missing mineral.
I chose Vitakraft "Sticks for Rats" ("Kracker" in German) Corn & Fruit,

I just had to share this...
**Butterfly
I have shared my home with dogs, a chinchilla, and a couple of
hamsters, not to mention the squirrels and birds that frequent my

I've been having some email probs so still trying to catch up on the last
weeks posts but just wanted to let you all know that I've found a home for
my remaining 2 boys!!
They're going to a great home in Derby thanks to Ratgirl's great suggestion

Hi group
Ive been checking messages on this group for a while now and thought I'd
post some pics of our babies, ive put hem on the link below but only seem to
get 2 pics on there, (any ideas) as i have lots more to share! We live in

Well tried to get some photies of the new babies, but gawd it was difficult!
They are just so fast and would not pose for the camera!  Anyway these are
the ones I managed to get.
http://community.webshots.com/user/tcsarah

is there a site that explains how pine is as toxic as cedar?
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