Pet Forum / Mammals / Rats / November 2004

<pardon my language>
DAMNDAMN triple DAMN!
Something was bugging my this am(5am) so I got up (lots of
squeaking) Now in the last week ASTRO has developed quiet

Boy do I ever have a major headache on my hands....  The youngest boys have
discovered that Ira is neutered and now they won't leave the poor old bloke
alone.  What makes it worse is that Ira won't defend himself.  He couldn't
go anywhere in the house last night for what Edward ...

I think some of you may remember last month when I said the vet diagnosed
our boy as having a malignant tumor on his foot.  We opted not to have
surgery and to keep him happy for as long as possible.  Well, he's still
happy, alert, loves his treats, gets out of the cage and sits ...

Well only a few days ago I was posting about my lovely old lady rat Disney
and her two new companions and how they had breathed life into her since the
death of her longtime cage mate. Well, sadly Disney suddenly became very
wobbly on her feet yesterday, she wouldn't eat and she ...

i picked up two new boyrats from kim of kim's ark rescue yesterday.
<http://www.kimsarkrescue.org>
they're somewhere around a year old, both neutered, both pretty big
(650-700 gms i'd say, having not weighed them yet.) they were part of

I was running out of cats for cat-throwing, so I started to throw
rats, it's fun and I can throw a rat for 145 feet !

FROM THE GEORGETOWN RECORD, a Massachussetts paper,
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
written by Sally Applegate
A Georgetown animal lover, evidently unable or unwilling to kill her

Our computer has been on the blink and we have only just got it working
again. I put a posting on a short while ago because my lovely old rat,
Disney's, lifetime companion Matilda had died and left her on her own. I
have 5 female rats in another cage who are 11 months old and I was ...

Boyfriends rat just had babies!
Yay!
hands out little licorice cigars.....
Bren

Just cleaned out a disgusting hidden treasure stash that our darlings had!
There were old nuts, rotten chicken wings, curtain hooks, seeds, a dried up
and greenish tangerine, a chewed up tampon and a few chewed socks encrusted
with dried urine.

Just thought I would drop in before I head off to sleep ...............
I sent Neptune to the Bridge tonight :o( Some of you may remember my posts
back in September when I thought I might be losing him. He perked up for a
good while but became so manky bless him, and he was ...

My husband took Tyche to the vet this morning to deal with the lump
she'd suddenly sprouted on her throat.  Apparently she managed to pop
it herself while trying to get away from the horrible ol'
needle-wielding vet.  Now she needs:

   Well Elroy and Astro are VERY socialized. They don't
want to leave papa, just sit on me. Judging by this page:
http://www.ratspacnw.org/non-agouti.htm
Elroy is a beige (depending on light the hood and line are

I've got 2 rats who seem to be itching a lot.  Also, both of them seem
really jumpy and aggressive all of a sudden.  Both have bit me, one a while
back, and one just Sunday night (from which I got a nasty infection and go
back to the doctor this afternoon).  Could they have bugs ...