Rats are not known to have perfect toilet etiquette, to the dismay of their owners. Luckily rats are intelligent, and with some persistence and patience, rats can be trained to use a litter box and a...
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How To Prevent Your Rat From Chewing Their Stitches: 9 Tips For Post-Op Recovery
Bringing a rat with stitches home from the vet can be pretty stressful. This article looks at a few common reasons why your rat may be on a mission to remove their stitches and how you can prevent...
Why Do My Rats Chew Everything? 3 Strategies To Prevent Rats From Destroying Everything!
Rats have an exceptional talent for chewing; in fact, the word 'rodent' is derived from the Latin word 'rodere,' which means to chew or gnaw. All rats need to have access to material to gnaw on....
My Silkie Chicken Suddenly Can’t Lift Its Head – How To Effectively Treat Wry Neck
It can be very distressing to find one of your silkies suddenly unable to lift her head. Most likely, she seemed fine less than a day ago. Wry neck in silkies is not a condition but rather a...
It seems easy to offer advice on when to let go to other pet parents, but when it's your own pet in question, it becomes difficult to think objectively. The line between suffering and not wanting to...
Many rat owners will, unfortunately, experience this at some point. This is due to rats' life expectancy (around two years) being so much shorter than humans' and because they are notorious for...