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What is a list of food you can feed your pet mouse and your pet rats?
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∙ 12y ago
Quite honestly you can feed them almost anything but a good diet is important if you want to keep your rat or mouse healthy for a long time. Most of the stuff at petstores is pretty bad - poor nutrients and mostly filler.
I am not sure about mice but there is a great diet for rats called Suebee's Rat Diet. You can find it here: http://www.ratsrule.com/diet.HTML
There are also many good lab blocks available by order or at various feedstores. One is the best (imho) is Harlan Tekland, but there are other brands like Mazuri, and Regal Rat that are readliy available at feedstores.
Some people also feed rats dog food with low protein (try to keep the protein under 20% you can find these by looking at Lite formulas) - one good recommendation is Holistique Blendz Adult Dog Food.
Here are some foods to keep your rat away from:
Avocados
Blue Cheese
Carbonated Drinks
Chocolate - small amounts of Milk Chocolate is okay (such as a chocolate chip)
Dried Corn- fresh corn in small amounts is okay
Dry Beans
Green Bananas
Green Potato Skins and Tubers
Licorice
Orange Juice - although Oranges are alright as long as there is no peel or rinds.
Raw Sweet Potato
Raw Red Cabbage
Raw Peanuts
I also don't tend to feed my cucumbers, lettuce, or spinach.
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