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Okay, today marks four weeks of age for my little accidental litter, so I separated everyone out last night! No more accidental litters at my house:nono:
So last night we were separating them. I have a really big cage that's going to be for my mommy and the two original ratties I got to go with her and for now the baby girls are in there with them. Then I was dividing the males between the two smaller cages I had. Of course there are quite a few to house because our Mommy got all for of them all the way to the weaning stage! I just can't praise Miss Lila enough!
Well I was checking their little butts because it had been a while since I had gone through all of them and just a couple of days ago I noticed some of their boy parts were becoming a bit more noticeable. I was wrong by the way. I originally thought more of them would turn out to be boys, but I had 8 girls.
Anyway, I was down to my last rattie baby, turning it over, and it squeezed out of my hand like a bar of soap and hit the ground running. Of course our dog Mischa had to get into the mix. Mischa plays with the bigger rats and is never at all aggressive, but she's terribly curious and was trying to play with the little guy, so he ran, we lost track of him. He is now loose in my house somewhere! We stayed up for hours looking for the little guy (or girl I didn't get to look before it split!) We have put one of the extra carry cages we have in front of the last spot we saw it, full of food, thinking, when it calmed down it might seek food and the security of the cage. We're also watching the area around mommy's new cage closely because we figure the little guy might look for her. My husband is home during the days now so he's keeping an eye out. I was thinking about getting a humane trap after I get off work and baiting it with yogies. We know it's still alive and moving around because this morning we found tiny rattie evidence in sever non rat-inhabited areas. I'm worried about what will happen if we don't find it fast enough though. We have the landlady skip our unit when it's time for pest control and all that because of our various kids, but I'm sure there are traps and poisons in other units though.
Anyone else have any tips for how I can find and catch this kid quickly!
So last night we were separating them. I have a really big cage that's going to be for my mommy and the two original ratties I got to go with her and for now the baby girls are in there with them. Then I was dividing the males between the two smaller cages I had. Of course there are quite a few to house because our Mommy got all for of them all the way to the weaning stage! I just can't praise Miss Lila enough!
Well I was checking their little butts because it had been a while since I had gone through all of them and just a couple of days ago I noticed some of their boy parts were becoming a bit more noticeable. I was wrong by the way. I originally thought more of them would turn out to be boys, but I had 8 girls.
Anyway, I was down to my last rattie baby, turning it over, and it squeezed out of my hand like a bar of soap and hit the ground running. Of course our dog Mischa had to get into the mix. Mischa plays with the bigger rats and is never at all aggressive, but she's terribly curious and was trying to play with the little guy, so he ran, we lost track of him. He is now loose in my house somewhere! We stayed up for hours looking for the little guy (or girl I didn't get to look before it split!) We have put one of the extra carry cages we have in front of the last spot we saw it, full of food, thinking, when it calmed down it might seek food and the security of the cage. We're also watching the area around mommy's new cage closely because we figure the little guy might look for her. My husband is home during the days now so he's keeping an eye out. I was thinking about getting a humane trap after I get off work and baiting it with yogies. We know it's still alive and moving around because this morning we found tiny rattie evidence in sever non rat-inhabited areas. I'm worried about what will happen if we don't find it fast enough though. We have the landlady skip our unit when it's time for pest control and all that because of our various kids, but I'm sure there are traps and poisons in other units though.
Anyone else have any tips for how I can find and catch this kid quickly!