Pet Forum / Mammals / Rats / July 2006

Would like a little advice, I have had rats in the past but my 2 latest male
ratties do smell quite a bit, I clean their cage out regulary but they still
smelly boppers, is there anything I can do or get that will keep the smell
down a little bit?????

If my other rat dies, leaving my 2.5 year old rat alone, should i buy
another rat to keep it company, or should i buy 2 other rats, that way in a
years time, if the first one goes they still have company..

Hello, fellow rat lovers. I could use some advice.
I have three females, two that are about a year old (Darla and Buttons) and
one that is a little over a year (Chewey).  They are all pet store rats.
They have been pretty healthy up to now.  They all had some kind of

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=394107
Rat saved my life!
By Dave Gudgeon
CARLISLE lifeguard Derek Banks is only alive today thanks to his pet rat.

I got a baby mouse from the pet shop I work at. They of course are used
as feeder mice, but I wanted a little baby as a pet cause i figured it
would be sweeter to me, he's a fuzzie with his eyes closed. Well I've
raised a squirrel before, and I fed it kitten formula. I searched

I've been lurking for a while and have posted a couple of times, so I
thought it was about time I introduced myself.
My name is Dewi and I live in Brisbane, Australia. My husband and I
have adopted nine fantastic rats. We adopted our first 3 rats in 2004

Our current eldest, Mea, who'll be three around September, had major
surgery on Friday to remove two tumours. On the table they found a
further two & ended up removing all four.
She survived the op & seemed perky, eating & drinking straight after she

Hi all, I have a neutered boy, Munch, that can climb anything no matter how
high.  I found him in the top of my closet one day with his beady little
eyes looking down at me.  He has used the drawer handles to get up onto the
kitchen counter.  He climbs the kiddie gate and we have ...

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/22/MNGFDJJ61J16.DTL
1,000 rats found in Petaluma home
- Cicero A. Estrella and Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writers
Thursday, June 22, 2006

I was looking around my garage and found a loanly ugboot short slipper, i
throw the otherone out in the move, its old, doesnt smell too bad, so i cut
the toes off it and the rats like sleeping in it.
leather and wool, what more could rats want.

Since mammary tumors seem to be fairly common in rats, I'm hoping some of
you can answer some questions about them.
Does everyone agree that they need to be removed, or are there some
circumstances when they should be left alone? How risky is tumor removal and

It is with a heavy heart that I have to put this post on your group.
I have 6 beautiful does, all with wonderful temperaments that I need to
re-home.
They range from 7 months to 18 months, are very happy in their colony

It's a good thing I never bred one of my ladies.  Merlene took care of that
on her own, somehow.  The boys were never out at the sametime as any of the
ladies, but Merlene is now rounding up nicely.  The only thing we can figure
is she was able to slip between the bars/wire in ...

     Three and a half years ago we had a litter of rats (petshop-bought
rat was pregnant!). We sold most, and kept two for ourselves, which died
less than two years later: inbreeding probably contributing to their short
lives.