Just want to say "Hi" to everyone. We are the proud owners of three new rats. We have one regular eared female rat named Lilly and the other two are Dumbo eared rats named Gus and Maizy. We have had them two weeks and I do believe our one girl, Lilly, might be expecting. She was a lot smaller than the other two when we bought her, but today we noticed she is getting quite fat in the stomach area.... I figure she might be pregnant as all the males and females were grouped together in the same cage when we bought our brood.
I ended up taking Maizy to the vet last week as she seemed to be coughing and sneezing along with trying to catch her breath.... The vet didn't hear anything respiratory, but as a precaution she put her on meds just in case...She's been fine since we put her on the meds, but now I am wondering if it was the Aspen bedding or the body spray my daughter used as the cause? I put towels in the bottom of the cage this past week, but since I think that Lilly may be pregnant, I changed it tonight to Fresh and Compfy recycled magazines and newspapers by Living World... I figured if she is pregnant, that it would be softer for her to give birth, but just may end up going back to the towels I started using.
I am trying to litter box train them, but I don't know if they are too young to be trained yet or not. I do see them in their litter box, but they also leave raisins on the bottom of their cage too.... will give it my best shot. All I can do is try.
I ended up taking Maizy to the vet last week as she seemed to be coughing and sneezing along with trying to catch her breath.... The vet didn't hear anything respiratory, but as a precaution she put her on meds just in case...She's been fine since we put her on the meds, but now I am wondering if it was the Aspen bedding or the body spray my daughter used as the cause? I put towels in the bottom of the cage this past week, but since I think that Lilly may be pregnant, I changed it tonight to Fresh and Compfy recycled magazines and newspapers by Living World... I figured if she is pregnant, that it would be softer for her to give birth, but just may end up going back to the towels I started using.
I am trying to litter box train them, but I don't know if they are too young to be trained yet or not. I do see them in their litter box, but they also leave raisins on the bottom of their cage too.... will give it my best shot. All I can do is try.