Scythe
Well-Known Member
If it's not one rat, it's another! :emb:
So Friday night it was out time while I cleaned the cage, and I noticed Ed was a little off. Half-way through out time, he started walking like he was hunched? Like his hind legs were beginning to shuffle. Then I noticed that whenever another rat approached him, he would scream. Ed is normally a bit of a skittish guy and protests aren't completely unusual, but protesting because another rat was sniffing at him or trying to play was unusual.
Next morning, he seemed okay. He ate his meds, greeted me at the door, all was well. Today, he is acting peculiar again -- He's back to shuffled walking, when Roy joins him to cuddle or jump on him, he screamed loudly in protest and spent nearly 85% of out time cuddled up on top of a pile of fleece in my nightstand.
But I shake the treat jar, or offer food, and he comes running like suddenly nothing is wrong.
But back in the cage after out time, he seemed to have difficulty getting up the stairs with usual 'hop' and 'hurry'. When I offered them another treat, he seemed to run to the stairs, pause, and then run back to me(It's a CN, he was on the shelf) like he'd debated going down stairs, but it wasn't worth the effort. When trying to get into a hammock, he reached up, grabbed the edge of it, tried to climb into it and slipped and stumbled a bit but managed to get in on the second try.
When he eats his treats, though, he holds them with one hand while keeping his other paw on the ground. :sad3: (But he takes the treat from me with his mouth, very very delicately).
He's about 17 months old, but could be older since that's just an estimate since he was from Kijiji and I was told he was 3 months when I got him. They didnt specify if it was three months since they got him, or what -- I never thought to ask at the time.
He also has a URI right now, so his eyes are a little red, but not really any poryphrin on them. However, one eye is starting to get a little redder than the other and that's also the side he usually holds food with.
I have a couple pictures of how he holds his treats(and his eye), plus a video from Friday night of him walking(But it sort of sucks, you cant really tell in the video...).
^ Here you can see his eye better, how its red around the lids...
So Friday night it was out time while I cleaned the cage, and I noticed Ed was a little off. Half-way through out time, he started walking like he was hunched? Like his hind legs were beginning to shuffle. Then I noticed that whenever another rat approached him, he would scream. Ed is normally a bit of a skittish guy and protests aren't completely unusual, but protesting because another rat was sniffing at him or trying to play was unusual.
Next morning, he seemed okay. He ate his meds, greeted me at the door, all was well. Today, he is acting peculiar again -- He's back to shuffled walking, when Roy joins him to cuddle or jump on him, he screamed loudly in protest and spent nearly 85% of out time cuddled up on top of a pile of fleece in my nightstand.
But I shake the treat jar, or offer food, and he comes running like suddenly nothing is wrong.
But back in the cage after out time, he seemed to have difficulty getting up the stairs with usual 'hop' and 'hurry'. When I offered them another treat, he seemed to run to the stairs, pause, and then run back to me(It's a CN, he was on the shelf) like he'd debated going down stairs, but it wasn't worth the effort. When trying to get into a hammock, he reached up, grabbed the edge of it, tried to climb into it and slipped and stumbled a bit but managed to get in on the second try.
When he eats his treats, though, he holds them with one hand while keeping his other paw on the ground. :sad3: (But he takes the treat from me with his mouth, very very delicately).
He's about 17 months old, but could be older since that's just an estimate since he was from Kijiji and I was told he was 3 months when I got him. They didnt specify if it was three months since they got him, or what -- I never thought to ask at the time.
He also has a URI right now, so his eyes are a little red, but not really any poryphrin on them. However, one eye is starting to get a little redder than the other and that's also the side he usually holds food with.I have a couple pictures of how he holds his treats(and his eye), plus a video from Friday night of him walking(But it sort of sucks, you cant really tell in the video...).
^ Here you can see his eye better, how its red around the lids...
