Pet Forum / Mammals / Rats / October 2008

As a new rat person of about four weeks standing I have about a
million questions, so I hope you'll bear with me... Here is my most
pressing concern: rat sneezes.
Our three girls were about five weeks old when we had them, and one

Well Pippy's neck is better, but now she has little spots on her whiskers
and by her ear, presumably from scratching also. Is there an alternative
to manually trimming her claws? Is there something we can put in there
with her that she'll use to keep her claws down?

Okay. I bought a new hairless pet rat, Bella, about a week ago. Nothing seems
to be wrong with her. She loves her cage, is very curious, has clear eyes,
and eats and exercises normally, and she is a healthy weight. One thing that
worries me, though, is that she sneezes very often. ...

This evening my wife noticed a place on the underside of Pippy's neck. It
is a long, narrow red place stretching from the underside of her mouth
about an inch back straight towards her belly. It looks like some kind of
wound, but it's not bleeding or oozing, at least not that I can ...

Only this time it was something many long time owners of female
rats have had to deal with.
    Yes she had mammary tumors. Three of them to be exact, about
45-50mm in diameter. Very encapsulated with no invasion into the