Fancy Rats Archive forum: 2002 - 2011

Thank you all for your kind help, I am translating everything for the french community, and hope loads of little ratties will get their tummy filled with some garlic

Thank you for you answer Any more details anyone?

Hey there! I am now living back in France again, and I was really surprised to realise that ratty owner over there don't feed garlic to them!!! As it is poisonous to rabbit they thought it would be the same for rats. As I am not an expert on the subject, I would like to have a little bit knowledge o...

aimlessdesire wrote:Ouch I wish I'd kept him with me for longer now, my vet is a lot cheaper.

No worries, am so happy to have him home ANd well, that was the price for 3 operations on top of the neutering so that not that bad.

For a check plus a baytril course, usually cost me around 35 pounds :) That may be really expensive, but I had cheaper *please do not swear* vet in the past and this one know what he does, and do it well, so better paying more! Though the 300 pounds for the treatment post neutering of Iggy was kind ...

unless you have a really shouldery and fat rat, no way to get the harness around!

Depending of the rat caractere, you can just keep it on you, they tend to hide in you hoodies / pockets anyway, and just keep a close look at them, they don't fly usually

Well, seeing rats live in cages, wouldn't think that your boyfriend allergy can be much of a trouble i know a lot of rat owner that are allergic to rat themselves, just have to keep the cage and house clean - especially since he already cope with them 3 years! Couple of young males should be fine as...

Rat sitting is the solution IMO, too much incertainity for camping with rats, especially "sick" ones. You would have 2 rats, really used to human and travelling, you may have been able to do it easily, but that doesn't seems faire to me in this case...up to you though!

What I did for my flat was said that i was planning to get some caged animals such as hamster... managed to get this written down and well, when she find out it was rat, that was too late as I was allowed to have caged pet in my room

Not sure, as the picture may get the little guy paler than he is, but doesn't seem like a roan to me, they are usually darker when younger and the color is not as neat... could be wrong though!

yup, same things, a bit like someone with big ears and someone with small ears

None of my rats reached 2 years as for now... apart from Treacle which was a rescued rat but I didn't knew her age and she was put to sleep.... 2 felt asleep peacely before 2 (both from a breeded) 2 died of an internal tumour before 2 (both from a breeded) 1 died of a brain attack, quite young (resc...

500gr a bit big for a girl, but she may just be "tall"
You can see if she is fat or not I guess...do you have picture?

Left one cage open saturday morning while going to the vet...luckily the cage is on top of a bookshelf so they didnt go far

clean the wound, went to sleep, put my alarm clock for 6 hourrs later, woke up and everything was closed! Damn these rats are fast! Going to clean again, I feel so bad opening him every now and then :/ EDIT: Even after 5 hours it is closed. Poor iggy keep trying to snuggle and to lick me so i let hi...