Posted in Behaviour, Bo, Healthcare, My Rats on June 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Beau bit me! Pretty hard - he definitely meant it. I was cleaning the boys out Monday afternoon and was halfway through putting the bedding back in the cage when beau jumped in, so I put my hand in take him out and he turned round and bit me. It bled a lot, so I wrapped [...]
Posted in Fudge, Healthcare, My Rats, Nutrition, Saffron, Sugar on May 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Sugar has gone down to 452g. Hooray. They have had nearly all their fresh food cut out completely, apart from a bit of veg a couple of times a week. None of them are looking worse for it, I think it’s because the weather’s warmer, they don’t need to use up energy keeping warm, so [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Nutrition, Sugar on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
The ratties are all on a diet. And it’s mostly Sugar’s fault! Well, really it’s my fault for letting Sugar get so fat. She is very rotund and even though she is perfectly healthy, it’s not good for rats (just like everything else!) to be too overweight. I weighed her yesterday and she is 477g. [...]
Posted in Behaviour, Healthcare, My Rats, photographs on April 11, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve been back since Tuesday actually, but have been busy doing not a lot! The rats all managed without me (of course) though i like to think they were pleased to see me on my return. My OH coped perfectly well and I think quite enjoyed looking after them.
Burmickity is unfortunately still not right, though [...]
Posted in Healthcare, My Rats on March 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My poor baby girl is not herself. She is just sitting by the cage door at play time and not coming out and then if she does come out she just trundles round slowly rather than rampaging all over the place like she does usually. She is also a bit fluffed up. The most worrying [...]
Posted in Behaviour, Breeding, Healthcare, My Rats on March 23, 2008 | No Comments »
…. escaping that is! She has learnt that she can jump up high enough to clear the perspex on the other end of the dividing wall and get up the wall the same way she got up the other end. She’s a monster, but i’m also so proud of her - she’s obviously very clever [...]
Posted in Behaviour, Healthcare, My Rats on March 19, 2008 | No Comments »
I was back to the vets today - this time with Beau who has an abcess. I found it late Monday night and managed to get loads of the greenest, smelliest pus i’ve ever seen out of it! Today, thankfully it’s dried up and he just has a fairly large hole in his groin, so [...]
Posted in Healthcare, My Rats on February 27, 2008 | No Comments »
I go through phases when I seem to spend all my life at the vets. It doesn’t help that I often end up going with work animals too!
I said before that Mustard was poorly. She developed a very loud and snotty rattle along with a fluffed up coat, lethargy and a bit of weight loss. [...]
Posted in Healthcare, My Rats on January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
I was going to blog about the new cage last Saturday but didn’t because I had a really poorly boy rat. I had noticed on Friday that there was what looked like watery blood on the bedding in the boy’s cage but all five were fine, so I couldn’t tell who it was that had [...]
Posted in Healthcare, My Rats on January 19, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m sure i’ve said before about my stupid bucks climbing on the top of the girl’s cage and being bitten. Well, they don’t seem to be doing it quite so much, but Luke and Bo still haven’t learned… until yesterday evening!
Luke climbed up and sat on the top of the cage and Burmickity bit him. [...]
