Rodents

On August 18th, i got 2 hairless rats (Jack and Oreo--they're brothers). About 2 weeks later, i got a hooded rex (Shyloh), so that he could keep the hairless ones warm during the cool weather. About a week after that, I noticed that Shyloh was playing a littlle too rough with Jack and Oreo (not like being mean or anything, they were just playing, and Shyloh's claws were scratching the hairless ones skin, very frequently), so i went out and bought Shyloh's cagemate from the petstore (another hooded rex, who is actually Shyloh's brother), so that way whenever Shyloh wanted to play rougher, he could do so with his brother, Tucker. About 2 weeks after that, i fell in love with a brown dumbo rat i saw at the petstore. So i got him, and named him Remy! (He actually had to go back to the petstore 3 days after i got him so that they could treat him for a repiratory infection, and i just got him back last night.)

2007-10-24 07:42:56 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

i put a line of sticky traps in front of my bedroom door to prevent the mice from coming in. but somehow their getting over it. is it possible for mice to run so fast that their body becomes so light that they can run over the sticky traps?

2007-10-23 22:14:06 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am the proud owner of two very tame pets. one, a male lionhead rabbit and the other a female syrian hamster. The hamster is 10 months old and the lionhead rabbit is 6 months old. I would like them to become good friends. I don't expect to put them nose to nose and cuddle each other; i just want them to like play nicely. I have already held the bunny close to the hamster while the hamster is in her cage, but will they be ok together outside their cages? If accidents can occar, please tell me so I can keep them seperated.

2007-10-23 22:04:40 · 17 answers · asked by xchocolate-rainbowsx 4

How do you determine a hamster's gender?
How do you know if they're pregnant?

2007-10-23 20:58:02 · 7 answers · asked by Peace =) 4

Any ideas? Maybe not something too too common.

2007-10-23 20:23:42 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

how do mouse loose waght? coz my mice is are a bit fat

2007-10-23 19:23:58 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

OK, so my hamster has a little pot belly. She looks like a pot-belly pig. And she also looks like she has a wet tail. I looked up wet tail on google, but I couldn't find anything that said they get fat. She seems ok. She looks a little sick, but not like she's in pain, just tired.

So when I just went up stairs to take pictures of her she was shaking like she couldn't walk that good, but that could have been because I had to wake her up.

Please don't tell me to take her to the vet because I'm not doing that. I love her but I'm not going to spend hundreds of dollar to take her to the vet. If all you are going to do is tell me to take her the vet don't bother responding. Because I know half the people that say to take hamsters to the vet wouldn’t take there hamster to the vet.

http://petster.com/cgi/profile.cgi?profile_id=26985&pet_id=28795
These are pictures of her. Numbers: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 17. Manly numbers 17, 3 and 6.

2007-10-23 14:38:27 · 12 answers · asked by Erin P 5

Anyone know where I can get those spacey cages that have holes in places for the tubes to be put into? My hamster is a Syrian hamster, and I just don't want him to be bored all day when I am at school =\

Thanks if you reply =]

Below is a link to my picture/s of the cage, and my hamster Spice

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u313/rachelmiser1991/SpicesCageHimself.jpg

2007-10-23 10:04:01 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

my hampster seems fine other then sleeping alot and white urine.she urinated on my daughters navy blue shirt and it looked white.my daughters boy hampster was trying to mate with her a couple weeks ago,she was bleeding from her female area when my daughter came and got me because it scared her.

2007-10-22 19:25:55 · 5 answers · asked by e.goodhue 1

and i have oh about 80 or so bucks to spend i want to know the cost of all the stuff please

2007-10-22 14:35:24 · 7 answers · asked by Konrad P 3

I have two female rats. I house them in a cockatiel cage. I used Carefresh bedding, as that worked well with my gerbils, but one of my rats couldn't handle the dust and continually sneezed from it. I changed over to Yesterday's news and the sneezing stopped immediately. I clean the cage out every other day due to the smell. It's terrible. It was terrible even with the Carefresh bedding. The rats get bathed every other week and I clean the cage with bleach (completely scrubbing and rinsing so as not to harm them). I am finding that urine is seeping underneath the pull-out tray and forming a puddle until I take it out and scrub it down. I don't know how the urine is getting there but it smells simply horrible. Anyone else have this problem? I know they shouldn't smell, but my housemate is getting to the point where he wants to bring them to an individual that takes in unwanted rats. I love my rats. I need to find a way to keep down the smell. I also use Bio-odor in their water.

2007-10-22 14:34:09 · 14 answers · asked by Yelliez 5

My cat bought back a baby mouse tonight. It's a bit ruffled so we're keeping it for the night to make sure its ok before releasing it back in the field. What can I feed it, that I'd have at home (ie not rodent/hamster food).
And would it be safe to release it in the field - will it find its mother/family?

2007-10-22 10:18:24 · 28 answers · asked by Amanda L 2

Who has had mice? Any tips, any stories, characters, interesting foods ect.... =]

2007-10-22 08:12:08 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

is it normal for rats to shed..
mocha is a white rat
with some tan and some grey/black
she shed last night
all over my computer desk..

also what is good for her dry skin
i got vitamin E capsles but they were really sticky
she didnt like that too much
anything else that isnt expensive that i can try?

2007-10-22 04:35:55 · 13 answers · asked by Andy Terror 2

I have recently been given a tame rat, she is not too bad for being picked up and doesn't bite as long as you havn't been handling meat.
I work with birds of prey and I am starting doing educational visits to kids parties with my owl, I am already set up with a company that organise witch and wizard themed chidrens events and was thinking about using the rat for these parties (obviously not alongside the owl or we will be a rat short).
What I am wondering is how intelligent rats are, can you teach them simple commands or even just to respond to thier name.
I will be using her in an educational sense so will be showing what they would do naturally.

2007-10-21 12:48:45 · 27 answers · asked by Aquila 4

We have tried putting vanilla extract on their noses, that is what the pet store said to do... but then they just tried to eat each other.. what do we do?

2007-10-21 04:14:56 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know it's not mites as I use a mite spray on him when he gets a bath has anyone else had this problem with their rat at all.

2007-10-20 20:22:04 · 5 answers · asked by happyangelgirl 2

I give him plenty of food, and he ends up flipping it over all the time. I refill it every time. But now I'm getting to the point where I think I'll just super glue it to the cage so he stops wasting food.

I thought maybe he didn't like the food I was giving him, so I bought something new... nope. Still doing it.

2007-10-20 18:21:52 · 10 answers · asked by salpy_talian 2

I'm getting another rat tomorrow so what kind should i get?

2007-10-20 16:58:42 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

my hamster water bottle keeps forming limescale and i was wondering if there is any way to prevent this happening.

2007-10-20 15:19:05 · 7 answers · asked by blossom princess 2

my father is totally against me getting a guinea pig, but my mother is allowing me to get one as long as i keep it in my room so his opinion is moot anyways he is always coming up with cons against getting a guinea pig some of which are they will make your whole room smell of their cages even when cleaned everyday, they have oily fur and many others but these are the main ones i am concerned about, are these true? i have also read that if there cages are larger they wont smell as much i am planning to make a C&C cage so it will be pretty large so will it make my room smell horrible?

2007-10-20 14:47:18 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

they like my first piggy but they wont let me get a friend for him. i know hes lonely because he makes this one kind of squeek when he is lonly. any ideas how to convince them. i have already cleaned my room and i cant talk about it till nov 4th so i need to know how to convince them. i think there desision to keep me silent was a bad one because it gives me time to plot out exactly what i will do. anyway any help will be appreciated. thanks

2007-10-20 14:36:47 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I want to convince my mom that it is not too expensive to get two.

2007-10-20 13:31:53 · 8 answers · asked by MyOhMy 3

He is black with little silver hairs here and there
Cricket
Bear
Nightstar
Kratos
Butterscotch(Scotch)
Wolverine(Wolf)
Cyote








My female is Celsius. And for those of you who think I'm going to breed rats, your wrong. Thier in seperate cages.

2007-10-20 13:25:04 · 14 answers · asked by Presea 3

Its really grossing me out. should we just wait for it to heal or take to the vet or what?

2007-10-20 09:25:59 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous

so my guniea pig melody just died.

i wasent even home to say good bye.

this just made a bad week worse.

my room looks so empty without her.

poeple say she was just a rat but she has been there for me a for a really long time.
since about 7th grade.

she was there to watch cartoons with me when i had mono and no one else was home.

she was so funny when she would run around her little house like she was a race car driver.

she loved to be with people.

when you would walk by my room all you had to do was say squeerks and she would go nuts.

i rember when i first got her the lady at the store said she was a boy..then she had babies lol

yea she was a pet..but to me she was more..she was a friend

and she is gone now..just like that..

no good byes
no second chances
just gone

R.I.P.
Melody Anne 2005-2007

idk how to get over her death.

everyone else seems okay...i cant help but cry myself to sleep every night.(its been 2 days)

help anyone???

2007-10-20 09:15:00 · 18 answers · asked by Katie 3

what would happen If i take a picture of my hamster with flash?

2007-10-20 08:59:51 · 8 answers · asked by gregoriopineda 2

i know they are a good source of protien and my hamster loves them but how often should i feed him crickets? i have a robo dwarf hamster BTW

2007-10-20 04:39:51 · 14 answers · asked by gelertguy57 2

Im 14. I was thinking of getting some kind of rat. Like a hamster, but I dont really know the different kinds of rats. So what would be the easiest to take care of, and the one that would last the most. Thanx.

2007-10-20 03:56:55 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am having so much trouble with it this morning, everywhere I try to point it, it wont respond, it's going haywire, driving me nuts.......



Oooops, I'm in wrong section....I should be in the computers

I'm just being daft...in a stupid mood, and I'm Bored....LOL (but my mouse IS playing up, honest)

2007-10-19 22:33:24 · 10 answers · asked by ♥ HOPE ♥ 4