Pet Forum / Mammals / Rats / December 2003

just wanted to wish all you wonderful rat-loving people from all over
the globe a very happy 2004!
May your rats and yourself be healthy,
May our rats give us joy and happiness like they did in 2003!

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Maybe acquiring some female youngsters in the next few weeks.
Can anyone confirm should they be quarantined before introducing them to our
other two older females. IE is there a recommended period. Also any advice
tips on how to get them used to their new cage mates?.

I just wanted to wish everyone here all the best for the coming New Year.
Also best wishes and scritches to all the fuzzy butts out there too !!  I
hope they all got spoilt rotten when SantaRatty came...:)  My lot got
Chocolate Baby Desert and Nuts in the Shell and Ham and a little ...

    just joined the group i hope you take a look at my ratties and
enjoy i have been keeping rats for nearlly 2 years now ans i cant
imagine my life with out them
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my girl is losing weight, she lives with two other rats they all seem fine,
i have taken her to the vets twice as i can see and feel she is losing
weight but the vet cannot find anything wrong with her, except the weight
loss.

...and happy holidays to all and their rats!

Hi All!  I put the Christams tree up the other day and my boys had a field
day helping me!  Took some shots of Alvie and Max in the tree.  Louie was
doing his 'Bah -Humbug' bit and refused to have his picture taken.  In fact
whilst I was busy taking snaps of the youngsters Lou was ...

Does anyone know where a rat age equivalent chart is on the web?   I used
to have one years ago.   Thanks.
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Just a quick question to ask you guys if any of you can recommend a good
place for rescuing ratties in the UK - Preferably around the Herts, Beds &
Bucks area? Would prob go as far as London but due to ratties not really
liking big journeys we need to stay as close to home as we can ...

This totally cracks my wife and I up-----Luna, when the girls have
out-time, will go around outside to the back edge of the cage, pull
her nesting material(pieces of paper towel) thru the bars, then run
back into the cage with her "new-found" pieces of paper towel.

Hi there all-
Our rats had a beautiful litter of fourteen kittens three weeks ago
tomorrow. The Dad has been neutered and will return once all of the
babies are out. They are not only the cutest babies I have ever seen,

I decided to have an "out" time today with my younger cage: ratties age
ranging from 5 months to 8 months. Then I decided to add my old boys Benny
and Russo. Benny and Russo live alone in a single level cage because of
Russo's lack of balance and permanent head tilt.

As many of you are probably aware, from previous postings from myself and
Rosemary, Stripe has recently had an operation to remove a breast tumour.
She has been back to the vet several times since, because of
complications in the healing of the wound, which has now opened up in a

Hi, all.....
We just started feeding our ratty girls lab blocks yesterday, instead
of the seed mixes they obviously love. Rather than leaving the uneaten
pieces in the feeder, they are stashing them downstairs in thier