New pet rat, but has she got mites? And more ratty questions

alanalea

Ooops mythreads got merged... Mites problem has been solved quite a while ago:j

Bindi has not been too good this week WE've gone to my mothers for Christmas and she has a cat. Bindi will not come out of her cage, come when she is called and it's taken nearly a week for her to eat properly It might be the change in the environment or the cat or I don't know. I feel so helpless with her. I hoping that she'll get better when we go home next thursday?

Still looking forward to getting her a new cage mate when she gets better :T

eyelinerprincess

Good luck with the cagemate! I had two ratties, one died so we decided that the older one needed a friend to share the cage. Off to the pet shop we trundled, only to find out that there were only two left! Of course, we had to have both of them.

To introduce them, I opened the older rat's cage and let her wander over the smaller cage which contained the two younger ones. When we realised none of them were going to fight, we opened the smaller cage and let them roam about for a while. One of the younger ones decided to jump into the bigger cage, sat in the house and refused to come out! They were fine ever since (although there were still a lot of squeaks when the older one found out the "babies" hadn't cleaned behind their ears properly...)