I have an albino month-old rat, and today in my Zoology class we took all of the rats outside in the school field, and i let my rat crawl in the grass, and she seemed alright, for the first few minutes, but then she started to scratch her right eye with her back foot, very very hard and fast. Then it was very red around the whole eye, and it kindof looked like it was bleeding. I showed my teacher and he said that that happens alot, and when they play, they fight and get their eyes scratched. She kept scratching her eye in her cage, and then she started to scratch her left eye real hard with her left back foot. I looked in the corner of her right eye, and she had something black in the corner of her eye like a piece of dirt, but now i think its gone. So when i got home, (she has been using cedar shavings for 2 weeks) so i changed her cage to CareFresh bedding, and gave her new food and put her toys back in, and i gave her a carrot to eat. She seems ok now, but what else can i do? thnx!!
2006-06-27
08:07:15
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