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More context: it feels rather hard and seems painful, he squeaks when I touch it. No scab at the moment, it looks under the skin. It happened very very suddenly, like even less than overnight. He's still behaving normally and shows no other symptoms. I've had another rat with an abscess in this...

My rat Kola who I adopted from unknown origin has had a little lump on her back right leg for about a week and today I saw that it was scabby so I decided to try and clean it and add antibiotic. When I added a small amount of pressure this thing started coming out, the “scab” was a side of it...

Hi! My young male rats (14 weeks) have developed bumps all over their ears, nose and tails. When I took them to the breeder, she gave me a mite medicine to put on the affected, and i have been applying it daily. It seems to be helping with one of my rats, but the bumps are only getting worse on...

Does anyone know if a mouse can die from an eye injury or eye infection? Or what can a punctured eye lead to if not given proper treatment/ointment from vet ?

Hello! As the title suggests my boy (Pablo) has a scab on his base of his foot and keeps chewing the scab and it reopens all over again. It’s quite jarring seeing all the blood that comes out but more than that I can understand why he keeps doing it. (Bad placement, itchy and everything)...

Hey everyone, We’ve had our boys for almost a year now and they seem healthy all things considered. Recently, one of our boys has started to become lathargic, we noticed that he’s not using his hands to hold food - he’s not knuckling which is good. But he’s also very close to the ground and...

Hey there everyone! Today that my rat Peanut has been squinting his right eye a lot. Not even today; really just now. He wasn’t squinting yesterday or this morning, so I’m puzzled. I picked him up and noticed that his eyelids on that side are quite swollen. Here’s a photo of the eye in question...

Hi, I have noticed yesterday morning that my boy Splinter has some swelling on his foot. I’ve panicked, researched as much as I could and came up with these 3 for my possibilities : bumblefoot, broken or sprained foot. There seems to be no cut or wound. I have given him Meloxicam, yesterday and...

My daughters rat has a scratch/cut on her tail and has seemed a little less active. Just noticed today. No other marks or anything. She is otherwise fine aside from not being quite as active and having the possible injury on her tail. Should we be concerned.

Hello I rescued some little baby ratties recently, picked them up from an off situation, feeder rescue essentially, I’ve done it before with my last two boys. But I ended up with girls this time! Smell is a lot better with ladies I’ll be honest, and I just miss having girls. Well, I was pretty...

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Hi, my young boy Moose is having some sort of issue. He's generally healthy aside from some allergies, and is about 9 months old. Recently I noticed if he would pee on my arm or something as males do, it smelled very strong and unusual. Yesterday I was doing a checkup on him as I usually do, the...

My oldest rat , Poppie,(approx. 5 months) has started to worry me. Recently they had all gotten sick(she was second to do so I believe), since then they've all had meds and the one who was the worst off, Aster, is now almost completely fine(it's two days after the end of giving them medicine...

Hello. I have a rat who has been having sneezes for a few weeks. Everything seems normal and it doesn't seem to be a URI. She is eating, drinking, playing like a normal 6-month-old rat. I also listen to her chest every day and haven't heard much if any congestion. I tried antibiotics I had from...

A couple of months ago I got my two rats Pigeon and Luna. At first Luna was really active and Pigeon was still active but a bit less than Luna. However a couple of weeks ago I noticed that Pigeon was really lethargic and when I take her out she doesn’t want to play and sits down and sleeps. Is...

Please help, on Tuesday night I noticed my rat Hector peeing blood. I phoned up the vet the next morning and I got a appointment that afternoon. He’s been put on Baytril for what we hope is just a UTI. However the bleeding seems to have gotten worse today (Thursday). I’ve attached a picture of...

I have read online that they have the ability to eat just when they’re hungry but for some reason my babies always seem to be hungry and i’m scared that giving them food such as Yogis will make them sick even if they are made for rats and other small animals.

i have a pair of sisters and i’ve noticed over the last few weeks one of them becoming kind of lethargic? She still runs up when i open the cage, eats, drinks, cleans herself, and will take treats but is overall becoming much less active but her sister is just as energetic as always. they’re...

Does anyone know what this can be?? Had a small lump last week now it looks scabbed? Any help would be great :) He's one yr seven months

I have three male, un-neutered rats in a double Ferret Nation, and I use a fleece lining for the plastic pans. This method has worked great for about a year, but recently, they've taken to eating the fleece. I first noticed it when my oldest boy, about 2+ years old, injured his leg in a fall...