Fancy Rats Forum

I would echo what Cub has already said, it does sound like brain tumour symptoms. You could try steroids as mentioned, but the nature of brain tumours is they are not cureable and so it is a case of managing the symptoms for a period of comfort before deciding to put to sleep. Personally, given that...

TL;DR new home sneezes are a thing, isolate her and monitor for a couple of weeks, use paper-based bedding and make sure she is a girl. Hi, and welcome :) Firstly, it is good practise to always keep a new rat(s) separated from the others for a couple of weeks to watch for any signs of infection or i...

Honestly, Ive never seen this behaviour. How is she now ? Based on how you describe her movement, and that she's ok at speed but jerky with slow movements, I think I would look at fine motor control. How is her dexterity when manipulating pieces of food ? does she hold it ok, can she grab with both ...

Hi, and welcome to FR ! :D Sounds like youve got a good handle on what youre doing, so just a couple of quick additions from me: If you get bit make a high pitch "Eeeee" sound. This is how they communicate something they dont like to each other, youll see it works. If its a top loading carrier, chan...

Daaah thats great to hear
She'll really appreciate the ratty company of her new friend - they both will !

They *can* be, but its a condition of the license whereby the experiments are such that the animal can be rehomed at the end of the study. It does happen in the UK, I have two myself that were used in "behavioural" experiments at a university lab. I know someone who also had a rabbit where iirc the ...

In terms of post op / open wound care, the key is keeping the wound clean. Manuka honey can work wonders - especially the vet grade stuff. Theres also Vetericin wash and gel that is good too. Rats are incredibly good healers and youre hopefully seeing the tissue granulating and new skin forming by n...

Aww that's good news, bless 'em
Hopefully itll stay gone now !

Scritches to both

Paws crossed all goes well

Ive not seen any tumour lumps on the throat myself, did it come up quickly ?
Im wondering if its maybe an abscess ?

Not sure about rat safe materials, Id assume most rug/carpet material ought to be non toxic.

But...I would also say, in my experience, that a rubber backing will likely encourage them to chew it.

Id go with something light enough you can stick it in the washing machine from time to time

Heya, hope your boys are doing well :oldbuck: Youve probably found the answer by now but thought I share that Viovet has the ingredients listed as : Ingredients The following shows the mg/10ml. Liquid Glucosamine HCL - 300mg Omega 3 Fatty Acids - 125mg Chondroitin Sulphate - 120mg Phosphatidylserine...

Ooohh, this new setup is nice.
Runs great on a mobile now

Happy new forum version

Sorry Im late to this, but that's a superb result
Go Ziggy \o/

As an addition,
Ive used steroids loads of times, occasionally for weeks at a time (PT) but I didn't know they could, potentially, cause that kind of reaction, so Ive learned something important here myself, thank you both

My boy Seavers (aka Colt Seavers from the fall guy) came to me as a rescue with a very bad inner ear infection. He would literally corkscrew in my hands. I treated with ABs and the infection cleared up, the tumbling stopped, his balance was mostly good. But the head tilt remained with him for the re...