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when I surface clean the cage, sometimes there is a redish orange tinge that shows up on the wipe. I was wondering what this was because everytime I try to search it it only comes up with sites about porphyrin around the rats eyes, but that's not it. All help and responses are appreciated.

Hello, I am new to this forum. I have run into a situation. I give my boys Oxbow brand adult rat food and I noticed that I was getting low so I went to the shop to go buy more but they are out. When asked, the worker said that they won't be getting any for about a week and a half from today...

She’s super pregnant and about to pop! I got her about 4 days ago and she didn’t look this pregnant when I got her, (I did not know she was pregnant until a few days ago) her nipples are very visible and i moved her into a nursery cage where she is nesting, but I do not know how far along she...

Hullo! :o I'm Ann. I'm hoping to meet others with ratteries and to gain lots more information on rats! :D Pic: Meet my Latte! She is a sweet calm and timid rat. She is my only rat right now.

I've got a one-year old male rat, Finn, that is struggling with something -- an abscess, a tumor, I don't know. What I'm hoping is that someone has had experience with something similar and could offer advice about the best path forward. About three weeks ago, Finn developed an huge bump on his...

hi everyone! My female rat is pregnant (feel free to check out my other thread about it!) and she should be giving birth any day now. When she does I’m planning on keeping a couple of the female kittens as roommates for her as we will be seperating her from her brothers to stop more litters and...

Hi, One of my rats - Archie - about whom I posted last Sunday, who's been on doxycycline for a while but whose breathing got more raspy a week ago had a respiratory attack on Wednesday. I took him to the vet and she added Baytril 0.26ml to the doxycycline (Vibravet paste 0.1ml) both 2x day...

I had this crazy idea to maybe start a thing called a Mischief Crate. It’s like a BarkBox but for rats. It’d be a subscription box and it’ll have loads of treats and toys and hammocks for your rats. But I don’t know how popular it would actually be so answer below in the poll if this would be...

I bought three very young feeder rats a few days ago. They all have uris i believe (sneezing/wheezing but no other symptoms really) i am treating them so i dont need info on that, but im a hypochondriac and I am so worried that whatever they have i can catch. Ive been having trouble breathing...

Is it a weird husky? Some kind of siamese? Anyone have rats that look like this?

Hello, I'm hoping to get a pair of rats in the not so distant future. Just currently researching and getting all my information straight before I do. So any information given would be massively appreciated. Does anyone have the thicket cage that pets at home were selling for degu's? As far as I...

Hello Rat Family, I have a fairly healthy two year old girl, aside from the occasional sneeze. I took her to the vet and they put her on enrofloxacin (also baytril I believe, but i declined that medication due to lack of funds). She has seemed to sneeze a bit less now, but I've been thinking...

Hey everyone. A few weeks ago I noticed one of my rats, Niles, was falling over every now and then while grooming. At first I thought it was funny/cute, and that he was just getting old. In the following weeks, he began sleeping more and then about a week ago I noticed he was not holding his...

A added a picture, a bit blurry because she hates sitting still. But anyway, one of my rats keeps somehow hurting her ears and unless shes doing it herself I dont know how. My other rat did this, but it was just her chewing her plastic tunnel and going through it (catching her ears on the chewed...

Hello! I was wondering if anyone had suggestions on a playpen? I'd like to bring my rats out to play more often and together, but its hard because they're both hyper and wiggly. Plus, one was a feeder rat and even though ive gotten her to trust me she still hates being held. I can pet her just...

due to divorced parents, I have to stay at both houses for an about equal time each week. my two boys are currently at one house, and I was thinking of getting another cage for the other house to take them with me when I go back and forth between houses. would this be too stressful for them...

so I recently got a new baby boy. I have two other boys that are around the same age but a little bigger, that are very strongly bonded together. today is the second day with our new baby, and the other boys don't seem to mind. the thing I'm worried about is they don't take interest in him...

hello !! so my little Orson escaped his cage somehow and left his brother bug behind. we didn't want him to be alone so we went and picked up a new baby boy today, skully. as we were getting bug and skully introduced we heard scratching in the walls and Orson peaked his head out of a little...

So my rat is getting old, maybe has a week left to live. I took him to the vet a few days ago, he got antibiotics and pain meds, as well as wound care for a cyst he has on his belly. The problem with the cyst is that the original scab has fallen off and now it is wide open showing his abdominal...

Hi all, I just joined The Rat Shack. I am from Ontario, Canada and am currently waiting for my two baby ratties to be ready to come home in a few weeks. I previously had a pair of boys, Bruce & Snoopy which I attached a photo. And a photo of my new baby girls:) (photos of babies not by me but...