The cage was a bloody mess too.
No choice, gotta put Blackie's old cone on Ratzi's neck so he can't lick his feet.
You can't tell since he's not moving, but that's one mighty pissed rat. He's starting to cool off now and has stopped trying to remove the cone.
As well as his feet, Ratzi is also on antibiotics for recurrent respiratory problems. It's weird, Eli was the most healthy of the two (apparently) and he died first of a heart attack. I thought Ratzi would go first, since he's always sick, but he just won't die. He's the rat Highlander! e_e
That cone is both hilarious and cute, but how is it that metal bars mess his feet up?
ReplyDeleteI did read the part about sensitive feet, but does he have some sort of metal allergy or something? Meh, I guess all animals have some sort of weird problem.
Rats are pretty resilant creatures, the mamalian version of the roach. You arerage rat lives about 3-4 years although the oldest recoded rat lived 7 years and like three months. Since Ratzi is what apears to be albino or at least one of those Geneticly artifical lab rats he is going to be more subseptible to sickness due to his biological makeup. Kinda like a human Ginger.
ReplyDeletePoor rat... Hope Ratzi gets better.
ReplyDeleteThe problem isn't walking on metal, it's walking on bars or mesh.
ReplyDelete"Don't call PeTA, it looks worse than it really is."
ReplyDeleteI thought that's what PETA was all about? :) Over reacting?
P.eople
ReplyDeleteE.ating
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A.nimals
Speaking of PETA, they've got a really cool flash animation where you get to have fun chopping a turkey for noshing.
ReplyDeleteCooking Mama
I think they meant it to be off-putting, but they only managed to put me off tofu.
Fishes are supposed to be called Sea Kittens now.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of PeTA. I pwned PeTA
im writting from a iPhone not mine
ReplyDeleteDaniel, yeh, try walking on oh, chainlink fence in bare feet for a couple hours. You'll get the idea.
ReplyDeleteThe wire mesh down at the bottom of the cage is so their crap can fall down and they don't roll in their own filth. I don't know much about domestic rats, but with birds at least, you can put beams running across the cage, near the bottom, they'll step up on those and walk around, better for their feet at least. Don't know if something of similar fashion would work for rats?
Aww, poor thing. Hope his infection clears up soon.
ReplyDelete...there can be only one!!!!!!
The last Anonymous was me. XD
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen blood for a while now.