horselo285
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Hey guys,
so backstory, we got two male rats from Petsmart two months ago. There were four total in the cage-brothers – none of which were socialized. At the time they were about eight or nine months old and had been there most of their life. The two I took have taken that full two months to really start to become friendly… And even now it’s only On their terms and they get scared quite easily and need to be able to run back into their cage at all times.
anyway, I kept thinking about the brothers I left behind. And I couldn’t imagine anyone was going to take them with how not friendly they were. So two nights ago I went back to see if they were still there and lo and behold they were so I brought them home. they are in my living room in a quarantine cage away from their brothers who are in my bedroom downstairs.
They are pretty scared, although the black one, Potter, will let me very briefly touch him and I can pick him up- but only for a split second and he freaks out. Anyway he’s a rat in question today… He is black with some other colors mixed in but he has two symmetrical spots on his back that appear from a distance to be white but up close also look like their might be hair thinning in those areas as well. There is most def some white fur- I’m just not sure how much of the white spot is fur versus skin.
anyway, I can’t hold him long enough to examine it and I’m a bit worried it could be something like mites or ringworm. I am particularly worried about ringworm because I dealt with it a couple of years ago in a kitten and it ran rampant through my Family. Absolutely horrid case of ringworm. My kids were covered in it! I only had a few spots, but my immune system was down from stress (from other situations) and I ended up with infections in the ringworm spot and had to go to the hospital and it was awful. I most definitely have anxiety over that so I’m probably just overreacting. But I wanted to see what others think.
I am posting pictures of the rat in question. Any opinions are appreciated!
Hey guys,
so backstory, we got two male rats from Petsmart two months ago. There were four total in the cage-brothers – none of which were socialized. At the time they were about eight or nine months old and had been there most of their life. The two I took have taken that full two months to really start to become friendly… And even now it’s only On their terms and they get scared quite easily and need to be able to run back into their cage at all times.
anyway, I kept thinking about the brothers I left behind. And I couldn’t imagine anyone was going to take them with how not friendly they were. So two nights ago I went back to see if they were still there and lo and behold they were so I brought them home. they are in my living room in a quarantine cage away from their brothers who are in my bedroom downstairs.
They are pretty scared, although the black one, Potter, will let me very briefly touch him and I can pick him up- but only for a split second and he freaks out. Anyway he’s a rat in question today… He is black with some other colors mixed in but he has two symmetrical spots on his back that appear from a distance to be white but up close also look like their might be hair thinning in those areas as well. There is most def some white fur- I’m just not sure how much of the white spot is fur versus skin.
anyway, I can’t hold him long enough to examine it and I’m a bit worried it could be something like mites or ringworm. I am particularly worried about ringworm because I dealt with it a couple of years ago in a kitten and it ran rampant through my Family. Absolutely horrid case of ringworm. My kids were covered in it! I only had a few spots, but my immune system was down from stress (from other situations) and I ended up with infections in the ringworm spot and had to go to the hospital and it was awful. I most definitely have anxiety over that so I’m probably just overreacting. But I wanted to see what others think.
I am posting pictures of the rat in question. Any opinions are appreciated!
