I was at a friend house the other day and her brother had come to vist her from college. He was doing a project on rats and he had three, they were all in horrible living conditions and were flea infested. They were never socailized properly and they smelled super bad. One was accually losing...

I picked up some new bunnies this weekend. They belonged to my friend Brenda for about 3 and a half years, but since she's been leaving them at home with her parents while she's at school, her parents seem to have finally put their foot down and told her she has to get someone else to take the...

for those of you who have been reading all this time (search older posts), you know i've been trying to bond my boys. i've had chrys and charlie since july. they lived together in complete bliss until they were 6 mos old. they were both neutered when they were 5 mos. for the past 2 months...

I recently just bought home a new family member shelley! He is actually a guy but I gave him a feminine name because of a special meaning behind it =) Anyway, I think it is because its my first time taking care of a pet, I get paranoid easily. I have done so many research and everyone says...

I kind of got some pics of goober so I thought I would post. I still haven't mastered my digital camera so I didn't get that many good pics. This is Goober. He has a wander lust so I had to be careful with the cage door open. Like I posted before he likes to bite me so holding him is out of...

HI...I just recently had the joy of bringing home pepe, he is a rex and is about 5 months old, Pepe is not interested in me at all and im wondering how to build his trust and have interaction with him! Please help if you know what to do thanks!:confused:

I thought it would be fun for everyone to post about their very first pet rodent :D. Mine was Ginger, a Syrian hamster. I think I got her when I was in fourth grade. She was really sweet and acted like a little dog :). Once she escaped and I didn't know until I was in my room getting dressed...

Whenever I'm in my room I leave Hikaru's cage door open so she can come and go as she pleases. Yesterday and the day before I took some pictures :). Ignore the dust...it's from her dust bath :rolleyes:. She gets it everywhere. Oh, and I know her bed is looking pretty ratty. It needs to be...

Hikaru is off of her meds now and is doing pretty well :). Now she refuses to come near me, though :rolleyes:. She won't even take treats from me which is unusual for her. Poor girl went through so much :(. Once I get her out of the cage she seems calm but that might just be because she's...

I decided to give Henry his first dust bath about 4 days ago. I stuck it in the cage and Hailey jumped in and went nuts and Henry was mocking her every move, flopping around, but he was not in the dustbath. When Hailey was done Henry got in and ducked his head in the dust and wiggled a little...

....after it escaped nearly two months ago!!! :lol: We had been looking for it for weeks but eventually gave up and assumed we'd never see her again. Then last night my brother heard a noise and got up...and saw his long lost hamster in my sister's rabbit cage! Alexis (the hamster) must've been...

Hi guys. I'd rather pick your brains than make a mistake, so bear with me. My 2 girls (goos) can't go a week without havign a day where one (or both in alternation) seem to squeal like a stuck pig. I want to say it's cute because sometimes it sounds more like laughing than just squealing. It's...

A friend of mine had a lovebird and her hubby didnt want it anymore so he tried to get rid of it by leaving the cage door open for about 4 hours so that it would just fly off...it didnt go...didnt want to leave...Mind you my friend didnt know he had done this as she was out of the house. She...

i wonder when/how everyone feeds their degus. do you keep a constant bowl of food in their cage? do you only give them XXX amount a day? then give them treats? or what?? i'm really curious and also really curious on how to really get my degu, Jager to let me hold him w/out him freaking out and...

I was reading on a way to enclose my piggies once I get them, since only two of the three are bonded. I have one wire top-pan bottom cage that I was planning on using for the one pig, but I was reading online about using a kiddie pool as a habitat! That would be nice for the two, and easy to...

I'm considering trying to litter train my rats. Has anyone else tried to do this? Did it work? Any advice would be very much appreciated.

I am at a loss here. Logan can't stand to be separated from Dave or myself. Today, I went out for about an hour and left Dave with the dogs and Dave said all Logan did was cry. Dave tells me I baby and pamper him too much. Because I am not working I am home all day with the dogs and he said...

Hi ther,e I posted yesterday about my new bird, a ringnecked parakeet, and I have done a lot of research and can't seem to find out much about how much sleep they need, how much cage covered time they should have etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, andrew

Blackjack is not exactly fond of us humans, or the cat. It was recommended to me by the humane society that I leave his cage door open so that he can socialize at his own rate, as long as I keep an eye on him. We have made progress, just not much. He refuses to eat anything but paper & his...

Hello everyone! I love this site...it's so helpful. I have 2 bunnies, Flopsy & Eeyore (who is a dwarf). I took in Flopsy from a co-worker 4 years ago and I would say I am her fourth parent...and definately her last. I love her more than anything and she is now getting old. Eeyore looked...