scabs

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)...

I just rescued two male rats. One has some scabs on his neck and a few on his upper body. My first thought was mites but I don't see any when I look through his fur. The other boy seems to scratch his face and lick his toes quite a bit but I'm not sure if its grooming or something else. I know...

I didn't know what catagory to post this in so I will just post it here. I have owned rats for around half of a year now and I have noticed that around the cage I would find little clusters of fur/hair (not big chunks) with skin or something on the end which makes me assume that my rat is...

Hello everyone! This is my first post here! Excited to be apart of this lovely community~ I recently got three beautiful boys from a breeder in early January. They were about 6 weeks old when I got them, so they are probably about 9 weeks old now. I recently noticed that two of them (a...