health issues

Recently my near 2-year old rat, Poppy, has been refusing to use her front paws to grab and hold onto food. She grooms and walks just fine though. I've noticed these scabs/red areas on the inner side of her front paws and wanted some information on what they could be? Here are pictures, the...

I noticed my ~2yo Female start acting "drunk" about 5d ago. She was mildly lethargic and unsteady. I gave her food on a spoon and she repeatedly started eating from the R side and veered off to the L of the spoon. She also was falling out of hammocks etc. I gave her baytril and meloxicam and...

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, fellows rat lovers. My boy Lawrence (2yo) got his white stain on his eye all of the sudden. Despite the age, Lawrence is pretty active and still plays, eats and drinks well. However, since this eye thing happen he started to get a little more skittish and he seem to not like to be touched...

Hi, fellows rat lovers. My boy Lawrence (2yo) got his white stain on his eye all of the sudden. Despite the age, Lawrence is pretty active and still plays, eats and drinks well. However, since this eye thing happen he started to get a little more skittish and he seem to not like to be touched...

My <1 year old girl recently developed pneumonia. She was 100% healthy before and has never had any respiratory infections. The moment I noticed her symptoms, I started Baytril+ doxycycline and scheduled a vet appointment. She was not improving after ~24hrs so I added prednisone from previous...

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...

Hi guys, I have a 1 year and 8 months old rat who just started suddenly limping in one foot today, which is super weird because compared to his brother, he's the crazy, running active one always. Yesterday he was perfectly fine, ran around, climbed on stuff etc. Today, I saw him limping his...

Hi there! This is my baby Goose. He likes to sit with me while I'm working at my desk but he jumped down right when I shifted and I think I rolled over his tail with my chair. That sounds really awful but he didn't even squeak, I only noticed cause he jumped back so quickly. Its probably more...

I’m a first time rat owner and my girls have been healthy and happy for the past year! Recently I noticed a thinning patch of hair on one of my girls face. There are no other missing patches of fur and none on my other girl either, as well as no scabs, bleeding, or noticeable bugs. Could this...

My dirty boy Roach has come up with a massive lump on his body... Has anyone seen this before? It's right and up a bit from his ***** and it doesn't seem to be painful, just ugly. There is a small scab on the centre but that's it. It's squishy like a cyst. Could it be an abscess? I do work...

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 all, I haven't posted in a while but I'd thought I'd hop on and ask about something. To make a long story short, my youngest female rat (who was a rescue that was orig. a feeder) developed a large lump on her side. I took her to the vet and she got an xray. The vet said that she has a...

My eldest female rat (~1.6yo) has been loosing hair in one single patch on her head over the past few weeks. She had a Myco infection about 2 months ago and was cured with Baytril and Doxy (but is still on low dose Baytril). She lives with 2 other young rats that are in good health. I do not see...

My old man Tobi is basically 2 years now. Never been really sick and was treated once as a baby (8 weeks) he was acting a little off yesterday and today he's... Well the video shows it. He has barely eaten any baby food- it's the only thing we can get in him right now.

My rat woke up with porphyrin all over her nose, mouth, her right eye and all over her hands. She looked like she got punched. Her lungs sound fine, but she's a little lethargic. She's been this way for two days. I don't know what to do. Is she sick or is this normal? Also, I don't actually...

Hello! I have a male hairless who's almost 2 years old. Tonight while flushing his eyes we noticed this little bump under the inner corner of his bottom left eyelid. It's not obstructing his eye at all, and is very small and squishy to the touch. It doesn't seem to be causing him any pain. He...

So, a month and a half ago one of my does gave birth to an unexpected litter. Long story short, she looked like her brothers, and was placed in the wrong cage; the new rat, Murtagh, was the father. He passed away recently. Unfortunately, one of the babies, Onyx, has begun to show the same signs...

Hi! I am still very new in this community, I have owned 1 rat before and now have 2 male rats, 1 recently has been acting.... weird over the past week. He has been tilting his head and hasn’t been able to balance. He is still eating and seems normal besides this but it still worries me as I’ve...

Hello, so my Rat Hagrid has been dealing with an abscess issue on his cheek for the past several months. It'll go away and come back after a few months. This is the 3rd time. He was bitten on that same spot when he was younger when I tried to introduce him to a rat I already had, which I believe...