YouTube: Rat Intros
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I found this in my wanderings and thought if offers some great ideas and tips. YouTube video: “How to Introduce Pet Rats Together”
RatChatter Blogs
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Just a bit of news about the RatChatter forums. They are now offering blogs to some of their members as of today, October 1, 2008. Drop by and have a read at: http://ratchatter.com/blogs/
A New Comic
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I do not remember the last time I actually read a complete comic book. Sure, I flip through some of the animated novels at Chapters, and I’ll often rifle a stack of comic books at a garage sale, but I haven’t bought an actual comic in years. I use to visit with my grand-parents when [...]
One By One
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I often wonder how people will react to the idea of keeping rats as family pets. I use the plural form here, because simply put, I have no intention of even having a single rat. Of course keeping to this intent would also mean never again being without rats in my life. I’m good with [...]
More Comics
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Some new comics I found today. I don’t think they are really new, but I just found them today when I went searching at gocomics.com. I find the Overboard comic interesting in that I recently read it is a comic about a dog on a ship of pirates, yet there seems to be a significant [...]
Healthy Rat Diet
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A Healthy Rat Diet (May 2007) … by Carole Nelson with permission from Lil Ratscals Rattery (www.lilratscal.com) A proper diet is essential for your rat’s good health. Rats are omnivorous, which means they eat both plant and animal material. Please do not try to convert your rats into vegetarians. They need animal protein, and cannot [...]
To The Vet, Or Not To The Vet?
That is NOT the question! Good intentions are one thing, poor judgement is something altogether different. It is quite a common thing to find on forums, especially pet related forums, backyard vets and other wannabe medical professionals hiding behind the screens of the Internet. Now that is an extreme point of view and fortunately it also seems [...]
Pain Medication Guide for Pet Rats et al.
Recommendations for Analgesia in Rats and Mice Oral: Drug name* Species Dose Frequency Controlled substance? Aspirin Rodents 100-400 mg/kg 1-2X per day No Meloxicam Rats 1.0 mg/kg Daily No Buphrenorphine Rodents 0.01-0.02 mg/ml drinking water Daily Yes Buphrenorphine Rodents 0.5 mg/kg in jello Daily Yes Carprofen Rodents 5-10 mg/kg in water or jello Daily or [...]
Google Rat, Again!
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I knew they loved rats over at Google. Here is further proof. Notice the brave, little rat guarding the net:
Google Rat
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Google, the great search engine. Quite honestly in the beginning I was not a fan, now it’s a part of my everyday life, besides who could resist a site that does things like this: Thanks Google, I really appreciate these “rat” themed ones the most.
