tail

Does anyone know why my rat might have these red patches on his tail? He doesn’t seem to have any symptoms otherwise. He’s eating and drinking as normal and has normal energy levels. It doesn’t seem to be itchy for him as I don’t see him over grooming the area when he’s out and about. We have a...

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...

Hello, I've had a few rats and I had never seen one with a curled tail, but one of my girls has had a curled tail since a few months old. Does anyone know why? I've read it can be due to having too small of a wheel or something similar but we don't own a wheel. I've also read something about...

I was putting my rat Rosaline back in her cage after some play time and I don't quite know what happened, but I think I knicked her tail when closing it. I feel so bad and I need to know if I should take her to the vet or just try and aid it at home.

I don't really know how it happened but one of my rats tails got caught in the door and broken off. I hadn't closed the door at all and it seemed like a normal feeding session when she all of a sudden started screaming and running in circles. She frightened me and her sisters a lot. The two...

Hi guys I noticed that one of my three boys had a knick on his tail. My girlfriend was actually the one who pointed It out and noticed when it was bleeding the area has thus scabbed over and I figured it was fine as i read and learned rats heal on their own. Is this something that will fix on...

hi there, first of all thanks for clicking in. I have a rat named Dragon Slayer, she’s roughly 1 year and 2 months old now ( got her from a pet shop, she was around 1 month old back then). She’s a lovely girl who would just sit there for hours long cuddles. Last year around August one of my...

I posted about a month ago about one of my boys, Obi, who I thought had a degloved tail at the time. Apparently it was a “nail tail” but since then I think he really degloved it! (Sorry for the flashy photo, it’s hard to get him to sit still- plus it’s the middle of the night!) It’s red, so...