Pet Forum / Mammals / Rats / October 2007

A fair bit of blood on and around the nose (pretty sure it is blood)
labouring a bit to breathe. He will not eat or drink, I've tried yoghurt,
complan , melon etc. He seems to have lost weight even from yesterday.
The lump on his stomach that the vet said was a tumour, I'm pretty ...

Don't suppose anyone knows of any rat breeders in switzerland or
southern germany?
we want to get branden a mate, but really dont want to get another
from a pet shop, went in one today, they said they had male rats,

Took me absolutely ages to upload the web page, (very flakey wifi
signal) but Branden has a page on our site now.
http://www.kampenwagen.co.uk/Branden.htm
gazz

My poor lickle baby hurt him self just now....
i'd left branden sleeping in the corner of the sofa, he was curled up
with his tail in his paws like on the photo's of him on our site, and
went to cook something for tea, a couple of corn cobs.

I got my rat whilst we were (and still are) touring europe in our
motorhome, he's a husky rat called Branden (he came from Brandenburg,
just outside Berlin)
I got the same food he was fed at the shop i got him from, he didnt

Just click on photo for a huge view.
Good news is they love the cage :-)
http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/6755469

So today is the first day of my potty training experience.  I have attempted
it many times before and failed misrably every time.  Each time I buy that
little box and the little pellets from the pet store, and every time they
just play in the little container, and never actually use ...

would the blossoms off fruit trees be ok for rats to eat? What other
flowers could they safely ingest, should they like the smell of them?
Roses? The nectar laden types...ah...jasmin..honeysuckle..[having a
seniors moment here] others anyway. Not bulb types, or known poisonous

1. Obtain a pair of small child's trousers (pretty cheap from a charity
shop, or a supermarket - I paid £4 for mine from a well-known supermarket
chain starting with T).
2. Unpick the seam (or cut, if you're lazy!) down the middle of the seat

Looks like getting Art and Tar a ferret nation cage is not going to be the
best idea, I am going to get them a single level cage.
Tar has mediumly bad hind leg paralysis and Art has the onset of it. Last
night I thought Tars urine was quite strong and he had soaked his bedding.

Where's the best place to order one of these (the double one) in the UK?

Because the ratty age calculator (which calculates the age of your rat in
"human years") is the most popular page at my website, a while ago I decided
to update it. It's more or less ready now, and the new features include:
* You can now save all your rats for later use, so you ...

My MIL took her for a check up cause driving hurts me and my MIL came
in and I said "where is mom?" and she said "they are keeping her"  not
sure why, I hope it's not her heart. Anyway thoughts and prayers would
be appreciated, thanks.

I can see now why it is recommended two people build it.
It's not that the parts are heavy , it's just it may have took me a bit less
time if I had a couple of more hands :-)
Worth it though, I am very impressed, it is going to be so easy to clean :-)

Found these freaky rat pictures today:
http://www.freakingnews.com/Rats-Pictures---1353.asp
Talking pics, just had to include an old favourite rattie photo site, which
I know has been shared here before, but for those who haven't seen it, it's