Pet Forum / Mammals / Rats / January 2005

On inspection of Pierre tonight I noticed on his left hind leg, the nail on
the 3rd toe is all red (like it looks like blood inside the nail), and the
toe is slightly more pink than the others.  The nail is also about half as
short as the others (which are unfortunately quite long) ...

I've thrown up a few new pics on Webshots (in a new album, "Momo's
bag," to make it easier to access them) of some of Momo's recent
doings in the teethwork department.  Sometimes they can actually use
those incisors for something reasonably constructive.  

i'm having trouble getting decent pictures lately, but here are a few
that did turn out from my recent attempt
mario
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They say that the true measure of a person's character is their
treatment of small animals. In this, I hope I have made Keiichi proud.
A previous post details Keiichi's rapid decline. A visit to the vet
confirmed that it was not a disease. The vet was unable to figure out

I noticed a couple of weeks ago my older rats had no fur on the sides of
there heads. I dont know if my littler guys are grooming them too much or
what. Reagans sorta grew back and then in no time at all it was gone again??
Just curious!!

Just got home from a week in Mexico, and had LOTS of posts in the newsgroup!
Firstly, my sincere condolences to Kate, Sue & Gershal for the losses of
your beloved Merlin, Sadie & Keiichi. It's always such an awful thing to go
through isn't it. They are all playing together at ...

Looking for a good online outlet for quantities of about 15Kg at a time...
Supa Rat used at the mo...
Les

I have Spice, which she's still young (5 weeks maybe). She looks
exactly like Ringo when he was little so I'm hoping she may be a
Siamese too so then I can breed her and it will be for the better of
the breed. I'm just hoping. =)

I picked up the new baby girls today.
The best news is that my old rat Bodie is still alive.. I so wanted her
to meet the new girls and have some company in her final days. Her
tumour is getting bigger and bigger but she is still very active and

Ok I finally got myself sorted out..:) Thanks one and all.  I am now using
Individual net ...  and have usenetzone as a spare...  So here I am back
again before Im even gone.
Scritches to all the fuzzies out there.

Well, Tyche's gone now. She got very suddenly worse on Friday
afternoon, so I decided that at her (already scheduled) veterinary
appointment on Saturday we'd have her put to sleep, because she was
clearly having No Fun At All and not going to get better. The storm on

I have a rat named Hector that's aproximately 2 1/2 years old (I'm not
exactly sure as I rescued/confiscated him from a mentally ill neighbor
who was severely negelecting him.) He's developed chronic wheezing which
I'm assuming is due to mycoplasma. I've tried two different combos ...

Hi all;
This thread above is very timely, as I just discovered this group yesterday.
I used to have rats as classroom pets in my grade five classroom, (kids are
10-ish) and after a few years away from it, have decided to do so again.  I

Thank you for the advice one and all but sadly I think my ISP may be
blocking me from using Newsgroups?  I joined up with usenet but as soon as I
try to download groups I get the following error..:( Account:
nntp.news.usenetzone.com

I have a question that seems like no one can answer it. When I first
got my rat, Ringo, I thought he was a beige hooded rat! He had a beige
hood and some beige on his body just like any other hooded rat would
look like. I always wanted a beige rat so that's why I picked him out