Our pet rat, Cluny, started breathing hard about a week ago. He had a respiratory infection, which is the number one killer of rats. After watching him suffer for a week, my husband put him to sleep last night. That sure is hard. I had my time of crying, for sure. He was such a sweet rattie.
Since rats are very social animals and don't do well alone, we thought we'd get another rat to be friends with Remy. Well, that didn't work so well. Remy was very territorial and kept attacking the new rat, Steve, until Steve had several wounds. Poor Steve. Steve is a dumbo rat, which means his ears are a bit bigger than the fancy rats. He is so small and cute and loves to be held and petted.
Our new plan is to give Remy away to a new home and to get another dumbo rat to be a brother to Steve. This should work much better, since no one will be the boss yet. Once I get the other new rat this morning, I'll take some pictures and put them up so you can see the new cute ratties.
Poor Cluny. I'm glad he's not in pain anymore, but it's still sad. :( I hope the new rat works well with Steve.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry about Cluny. My brother and his girlfriend have rats and they always get infections. They are nuts and send them to the vets for over night stays and lots of medicine, xrays, all that stuff. Geez! And the majority of the time the rats end up passing anyways. I've been wanting to get rats lately, the dumbo rats sound so cute! Just need to convince Jimmy.... :)
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