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Care of Mice and Rats
Pet mice and rats are small rodents that take up little space and are fun to watch. Raising and training them is entertaining and educational. For types that make great pets, their habits and needs, and more, ask and answer questions here.
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Absoulutly not, they would eventually die if they did - you would have to FORCE
them to eat it in the first place
Does valentina have parts of rats in it?
Valentia is a Mexican hot sauce. Its ingredients are Water, Chili Peppers, Vinegar, Salt, Spices and 0.1% Sodium Benzoate as a preservative.
Black rats can also be called roof rats. Rats do not live in trees, usually in buildings, garbage cans, boxes and enclosures and near to where humans live. Black squirrels can look like rats sometimes, they do live in trees.
How do you clean drinkwell fountains for pets?
You can use any dishwashing liquid, but be sure to rinse well
How do you know if rats are digging holes?
With wild mice it's hard to tell because they usually start digging under a bush and you can't see it, if your talking about a pet mouse, I guess it would be dirty, but I'm not sure how a mouse could dig a hole in it's cage, so I can't answer it any more....
What is the Professional name for a house mouse?
The Professionalname for a House Mouse is Mus Musculus. Weird or What!
You found a baby mouse whose head is as big as its body is this normal?
The mouse you found could be a baby rat. Rats have a head that is large in proportion to it's body. If you are sure that it is a baby mouse that you found, it could be infected with pin worms.
Do mice crawl into people when they are sleeping?
No. A wild rodent has no desire or reason to do that and would likely keep as far away from you as possible.
mice can keeping getting fat but if you don't want it 2 feed it the right amount of food when you need 2
How can you tell genders of baby rats?
This may sound a bit disgusting, but you must look in their private area. If it is a girl. you may see small nipples along the stomach. if it is a boy, you will see a penis in it's private area. I hope this has helped you.
Thanks,
Isabella
If you are 34 weeks and 4cm 80 how long before you have your baby?
If your cervix is really 4cm dilated (not sure what the 80 is) at 34 weeks you should be at the hospital as your baby could be born anytime and at 34 weeks your baby will be pre-term and need extra support.
How do you mend a bleeding rat tail?
I had to take care of a bleeding rat tail a couple of times, so this is all just from my experience. Rat tail injuries tend to bleed a lot, so it can be scary, but the best thing to do is first to stay calm:
- Remove the rat from its cage and place it in an smaller cage/open box/general safe place. Prepare for the rat to squirm and be uncooperative. Mine never sat still. You might give the rat a treat to nibble on while you work so it's a bit easier. My rat loved to eat little pieces of popsicle.
- You can use an antiseptic spray (just make sure you clean it off after with water) or boil water, add a drop of tea tree oil, then apply the cooled mixture to the injury using a cotton ball or cotton Q-tip.
- You can also lightly dust a layer of flour on the wound (regular baking flour works) after, just to stop the bleeding. The flour soaks up the blood and causes it to congeal. Plus, if they lick it off, it's not a big deal.
- Remove all shavings and dust from the regular rat cage, clean the cage, and lay down a towel or paper towels, so as to prevent any dust and bacteria from getting in the open wound.
- If the injury came from a fight with another rat, make sure you separate them for a while, enough time for the injury to heal, or permanently, if the fighting is constant and results in a lot of injuries.
It's much the same for other surface injuries, as well, like on their back on nose. Sometimes I would apply ice to the injury.
I had two rats, and one was extremely aggressive. He gave my older rat quite a few bleeding injuries before I separated them permanently in different cages, and these steps always worked.
You should not give your pet rat there of the following:
BEDDING: No pine or cedar, when you buy name brand bedding, check the ingredients and see if the bedding has pine or cedar wood shavings.
CAGES: A sealed up container or a sealed up aquarium is not good for your rat, wire cages are better because the rat can breath better and avoid the possibility of respiratory infection.
FOOD: Do not give sugar, fats or salts to them. A little of there wont hurt but feed them mostly fruits and vegetables for snacks. For an everyday food, I would suggest Katee brand block food. It is filled with good nutrients. This should be the rats main diet with the occasional treat every day.
WATER: Tap water would keep them hydrated, but not healthy. Their small bodies can pick up diseases from tap that our bodies cannot. I would suggest room temperature filtered water to avoid worms and parasites of other sort. Cold water might not be the best choice because it might drop their core temperature since they drink it so fast, and they could catch a cold.
What do you do if there is a rat in your bed?
if there is a rat in your bed you get someone or yourself to lift out then gently put t outside if I helped your welcome
The mouse was dead for about 3 weeks
What sickness does your mouse have if she has a purple tail and part of it is falling off?
Our mouse had a purple tail (just on the end, about 1-2") turning black and falling off, due to a fight with another mouse that damaged the tail and caused lack of blood supply. The vet gave both oral and topical antibiotics. He also told us that IF it spread to the base of tail, that was the spinal cord and mouse would need to be euthanized. (If that happens, the mouse would die in a lot of pain and it can't be fixed.) We had a happy ending: the damaged end of the tail fell off, everything else healed, and the mouse continues to live a happy and active life......in a separate cage! You need to get YOUR mouse to a vet for some antibiotics!
How do you care for a mother mouse and her babies?
You care for a mother mouse and babies by leaving them alone. When they are first born you can just LOOK to make sure they are all ok, and alive. Some say if you rub your fingers in the woodchips you can touch them but I personally havent tried that because I do not want to risk the mother injuring or killing them which IS what she will do if she smells your scent on them.
Give the mother kleenex or TP rolls (empty) so she can make them a nest. During the first TWOO WEEKS leave them be. Only going in to refill their water and food. Do not clean the cage in that time also. The mother will naturally take care of her babies. Also do not indroduce any new mice into the home.
In two weeks (when the babies are fully covered in hair) you can then touch them, separating the males from the females. You will know when its ok to touch them because you will notice the mother disregarding them as they do in the wild.
Also I might ad that a quick peak is ok but continuous staring will agrivate the mother to either move the babies or stop caring for them. I currently have two mice that just gave birth but only one caring for them because the other doesn't like people looking at her. I put an empty (child's) shoe box in with a small hole for the mother to make a comfortable nest.
