Pet Care

» Steph101 - I just bought two baby pet rats yesturday!!

In response to My Girlfriend's pet rat! posted by phreak1:

I just got two baby pet rats yesturday! It's been great. I ended up naming them coffee and cream and their both girls!! ? They love going in mazes, and crawling on my bed under my covers. LOL!! But two me some people hate rats but you never know intill you buy one.

-- posted by Steph101

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» Steph101 - Read this! Rats and there babies....

In response to My Girlfriend's pet rat! posted by phreak1:

When I was a little kid my sister had all of these rats and mice! And when she had the rats in the same cage and they started having babies! And the other rats that was in there were eating the babies. And after all that was over there was blood all over the cage!!! EWWWW.... Then we sold them two the pet store and they toke them!!!

-- posted by Steph101

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» Charla Dawson - Read this! Rats and there babies....

In response to Read this! Rats and there babies.... posted by Steph101:
Congrats on your new rats. I know you'll love them, they are really cool pets.

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» Steph101 - Read this! Rats and there babies....

In response to Read this! Rats and there babies.... posted by charladawson:

Thanks I really love the 2 rats I bought!
They are cute and lots of fun to take care of!

And plus by the color that's on them I named them coffee and cream!!! lol...

-- posted by Steph101

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» Steph101 - Rats are better then hamsters.

Coffee and Cream is what I named my 2 rats.
I was going 2 get hamsters but the woman who worked at the pet store told me that the best thing to get was rats baby rats!
And as soon as I held one I fell in love with them.
I have always been a animal lover!!!!

-- posted by Steph101

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» Steph101 - Why do rats?

Ok when I was younger my sister had some rats and mice.
She didn't know she had a boy rat with the girl ones. So when they got old enough they started having babies and my sister didn't know it. So as fast as she was having the babies the other rats were eating the babies.....None of the babies ended up living!!! Why do they eat the babies?

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» Steph101 - Yeah cool pets...

You were right rats are cool pets.

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» einahpets - cuts on rat

I've had my rat, Orpy, for a little over 5 months now. He's a generally healthy dumbo rat, is pretty big, and dominant over my second and smaller rat, Ozzy.

However, this past week I've notice some strange things about Orpy. He's begun making a weird almost laughing noise in the back of his throat and then usually gags or coughs or sneezes. Something like that.

Then when I took him to my dad to prove that something was wrong, dad noticed several scabby, bloddy holes on his back above his left shoulder. The fur is starting to disappear around that area.

The only thing that I think could cause this problem is prehaps his change in diet. After Ozzy broke the bone below his nose and had to get his front teeth removed, he's been living off cat food. I would generally give Ozzy the cat food and try to distract Orpy with lab blocks, but somehow Orpy realized cat food was better and ditched the lab blocks all together and I decided to feed them both cat food.

However, I don't think this is the problem because Ozzy shows no signs of illness other than the occasional sneeze. We're taking Orpy to the vet tomorrow, but I just wanted to ask: Anyone know what's wrong with my rat?

-- posted by einahpets

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» browny06 - my skin

My mommy is worried about me always scratching in my bed ,and has been giving me baths i dont like with this smelly soap that she says smells really good on me . what we want to know is how can i stop my ichies and how often do i need to get a bath, yuck.?

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» megkag - Pet Rat Death

On 03-03-08 I had to put my hairless rat Templeton to sleep.It was one of the hardest things that I ever had to do. He was the best little thing. He loved for you to love him. He quit eating and I took him to the vet. and he had a tumor in his tummy. He was 2 and one half years old. The vet said that was like 95 in our years.The only thing that he could was cream of wheat and I had to feed him.I loved him so very much; he loved his bath,and he loved for me to wrap him up in a warm towel after his bath and just love him. I miss him very, very, much. I'm not a child, I'm a 51 year old mom and grandmom. I'm not going to go through this again.Rats don't live long enough.

-- posted by megkag

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