I have a new hairless dumbo rat. She is extremely thin and small and does not appear to be gaining weight/growing like her cagemate, which is a concern as we keep our home very cold. What foods can be used to help pump her weight up?
2007-03-24 08:02:34 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Besides the fact that it needs to be kept warm, you need to ask a vet that deals with exotic pets what you can do to fatten you rat up.
2007-03-24 08:37:59 · answer #1 · answered by Jeanine W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Warm that rat up. If its a hailess rat, why would you keep your home cold?
I suggest you keep your rats under some sort of heating lamp to keep them warm, and you will see a difference.
2007-03-24 08:06:18 · answer #2 · answered by Moose 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put a car tire on your dumb old rat!
Ooops I'm sorry! I didn't read "all of the additional info"
2007-03-24 08:21:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put her on a paper scale, you know the ones they use to measure the weight onf paper envolopes. Just put her in a container, and just adjust the scale to zero after you put the empy box on it. Them put you critter in .
2007-03-24 08:10:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't like rats, because on bit me! But that's not that point you should try feeding it more...
2007-03-24 08:07:33 · answer #5 · answered by Giovanna R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take her to McDonalds everyday for lunch. That seems to work for most people.
2007-03-24 08:10:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try peanut butter. you can roll some in the regular food and they tend to eat more to get at the peanut butter.
2007-03-24 08:15:15 · answer #7 · answered by redd headd 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋