Pet Forum / Mammals / Rats / April 2006

First time posting here.  We just lost the second rat of our first set of
rats.  :-(  After a few weeks I realized just how much I missed having my
rats, so we got two new babies a couple days ago.  They are still very
scared, though one seems to be coming around.  The other is ...

Hi all, Merry seems to have symptoms showing he has a pituitary tumor, but
he's on Baytril in case of ear infection. This morning I awoke to flopping
sounds coming from the cage and it turned out to be Merry. It seemed like he
was having leg spasms as he would get himself sitting ...

post your record-holder rat's life time!
Personally my 2 current rats are the toughest I've ever hard. They are 2
years and 5 months old. One of them has 2 mammary tumors but still seem
happy. The other one is top-shape.

Is styrophome ok for rats to play with?
Best Regards,
--Hank Stalica

Ratsters:
Our little juvenile rescue has a touch of the wheezes. We have a vet
appointment scheduled, and she has dry spells when she is active and
playful, including using the wheel. She coughs when she awakens, then

I've put several items in my girls and boys cages, but was wondering if
anyone had some great ideas for toys.
Preferably, I'd like to use stuff from around the house.
So far, I've got shredded paper, tissues, cups, TP rolls, some PVC pipe,

The 4 rats that needed homes came this evening, very nice people, cute
rats. The 3 girls are standard ears, and smaller than my 2 dumbo girls.
The boy isn't much bigger than my girls, and with very limited space,
decided to keep him in my room until I can get him nuetered. He is

OK, here I am back again so soon...  My babies seem to sneeze a lot.
They've only been home a few days.  I got a new cage with new water bottles,
etc.  The pet store put pine bedding in and I plan to switch to the paper
with the first cage cleaning.  Is this something I should ...

For those of you who may be interested, I started a blog dedicated to
Kia, Sierra, Pepper, and Pippen.
You can check it out here:  http://ratsnest1.blogspot.com/
I have a link to pictures, and my wife and I will be posting stories

Which brings us up to a total of four ratties.
Some of you may remember we adopted two girls about a month ago and one
of them decided to grow balls.  After giving it some serious thought and
checking around for pricing on neutering Pepper, we decided it wouldn't

Well, just got back from the vets. I will be scheduling a date to have
Pippin's tumor removed as the Dr. also believes it is benign and says Pippin
should recover well. She believes Merry might have a pituitary tumor, but
says it may also be an inner ear infection, so Merry is ...

I have a question about 2 small bumps on the lower back of my female
hairless rat.  She's about a year old or so.  These 2 bumps are not
that big, but they each have a small hole right smack in the middle.
They kinda look like a mini volcano.  Any idea of what they could be

Hello, I hope everybody is well. I don't think I've been on here for a
couple of months, so I thought I'd give an update. Eowyn has been with the
boys and is doing wonderful. She's almost 2yrs. 6months now! Pippin seems
even more energetic than I can remember even with the pooch ...

On thursday, Daisy decided to help me buy a new keyboard. I had left her
unattented for all of five minutes and she chewed the cable right off of
my keyboard.
Right now I'm using a clunky old IBM as a stand-in. I swear this thing's

Gday
My wife is allergic to that bacteria in ratties claws, one scratch makes her
puff up in painfull redmarks.
Im wondering if anything can be done to treat this, we put some antiseptic