Pet Forum / Mammals / Rats / March 2004

After getting tired of picking out all the corn and nuts from the commercial
diets, I've decided to make my own mixed diet, and feed it in addition to
Hagen Nutriblock and Nutro Lite dog food.
I'm going on the suebee recipe I found online.  The only thing that went bad

For some unknown reason Baba is removing all the nice food from the bowl in her
cage, abseiling down from the wardrobe (the rope's back) sprinting across the
floor, climbing onto my bed and hiding everything under my pillow.  Are these
presents for me?  Why hasn't she worked out ...

Hi I`m new here ( as if you didn`t know) and I need to know what diet is
best for rats.
We have just recently inherited a nice guy who was living under our
neighbors washer and dryer.

I have discovered the perfect thing for disguising antibiotics in.  Louie
has been on the baytril/doxycycline combination for a couple of weeks now
for another myco flare up and I've had a bit of a nightmare trying to get
his meds down him.  Doxycycline is an antibiotic that can't ...

Hi Joanne,
Yes Bluey is a Zen rat!  I lucked out in getting her, because when I
originally asked, Charlie said she was on hold.  But then the breeder that
had her on hold backed out... what luck!

I don't have a page set up with my pictures.... but I have posted pictures
of Bluey (pick up 7 days and counting!!) in alt.binaries.pictures.animals
Please go see her and tell me what you think!
Kelly

 Just a few pictures of Piper(the one-eyed rat), newborn ratties, and
Puddin' (RIP).  Will add more soonish!
 http://community.webshots.com/album/123433839wJiElB
 Julia

Okay, I'm curious. What do you do/what do you give your rats to allow them
to exercise?
Thanks for the info!
FM

I run the website Ratz R Us (www.ratzrus.co.uk) which some of you may have
visited, and have done so for about three years now.  Not any more.  It
seems it is an infringement of the rights of Toys "R" Us, and is going to
have to be shut down.  I can't believe a multi-billion pound ...

I'm sad to say although the decision has been heartbreaking that we're going
to let little mo go tomorrow. The antibiotics have cleared up the infection
wonderfully but I'm beginning to suspect that there's maybe something else
that's causing her pain. She's gained no weight at all ...

our vet said that we shouldn't add any new rats to our
colony because if it is myco that our boys have been passing from,then
any new boys we add will also get it. Is this alwasy true. I dont
want to wait for all our boys to pass before we add more.

A few weeks ago one of our boys got very thin, and was on his way out. Before
he passed he started to breathe funny, breathing heavy and opening his mouth as wide as he could and making clicking noises. The next day he passed. I though
t it was just something odd because he was old ...

I went to see an exhibition of photographers Man Ray and Lee Miller.
To my great surprise, between the stylish nudes, portraits of artists
and writers, and surrealist compositions, there was this beautiful
picture of 4 rats sitting on a stick, tails hanging down. Lee Miller

Was all set up to get some little playmates for my lonesome rat, but then it
works out how to abseil down the wardrobe (well, fall anyway).  At first I
thought it was an accident but it very quickly proved that it was intentional.
I'd already had to plug the gap at the back (she'd ...

Our naughty little sweet Sprocket passed away. After finally getting some
money to take him to the vet and treating him properly for his chest
infection, which the vet, upon assessment, thought could either be allergies
or indeed a bacterial infection, he suffered a heart attack ...