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 Baby rat need help!

Today, my sister brought home a one day old rat. She told me to care for it. At the moment I have the rat under a reptile lap in a round dish with blankets and a teddy bear. Were using a warm wet Q-tip to clean him, and are feeding him with a eye dropper and warm milk. What more can we do?
07/18/09  03:17pm

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Amyers
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   Message To: Hippyfreak31   In reference to Message Id: 2041313


 Baby rat need help!

try to get a heat pad that might be better...
07/19/09  02:13am

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   Message To: Amyers   In reference to Message Id: 2041480


 Baby rat need help!

Okay, Im so excited. He lived threw the night :)
07/19/09  08:47am

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Amyers
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   Message To: Hippyfreak31   In reference to Message Id: 2041535


 Baby rat need help!

thats great! seems like your doing a good job



07/19/09  03:34pm

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   Message To: Amyers   In reference to Message Id: 2041685


 Baby rat need help!

I hope I am haha. I was also wondering, when feeding how do you know if he is choking or not?
07/19/09  04:41pm

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   Message To: Hippyfreak31   In reference to Message Id: 2041734


 Baby rat need help!

why on earth did she bring home that poor baby?

what kind of milk?

they cannot have cows milk

make sure he doesnt get too hot

you will also want to massage his tummy as they can have trouble going potty on their own
if he makes it you will want to get another rat as a friend

they are very social animals

hopefully someone with more experience doing this can help

here is a great site that has alot of info on raising an orphaned rat Link
07/19/09  08:26pm

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   Message To: Lovetheleo   In reference to Message Id: 2041833


 Baby rat need help!

He was drinking organic soy milk, and yes we did do that stomache and bathroom thing. As for why she brought him home, I have no idea. And sadly he passed away last night :`(
07/20/09  07:13am

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   Message To: Hippyfreak31   In reference to Message Id: 2041313


 Baby rat need help!

I’ve read in several sources to give orphaned rats kitten formula only. Its the closest thing to their mother’s milk. I read too much lol. Sorry about your loss. It is very hard to foster any baby animal. Especially rats. I hand raised newborn kittens, and it wasn’t very difficult compared to other animals. Well waking up every two hours of every single day was, but they all lived. For future reference its good to know that you have to feed any small animal baby milk every couple of hours or less. Even in the middle of the night or they starve to death. I bet the baby is in a better place now.
07/20/09  12:28pm

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Amyers
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   Message To: Hippyfreak31   In reference to Message Id: 2042016


 Baby rat need help!

aw im srry hippyfreak31... you tried your best
07/20/09  12:40pm

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   Message To: Hippyfreak31   In reference to Message Id: 2041313


 Baby rat need help!

I hope your sister has learned some thing from this . Its best to leave baby animals alone .
07/22/09  05:07am

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   Message To: Skullkeeper   In reference to Message Id: 2043187


 Baby rat need help!

OMG you will have to get up and feed that baby every 3 hours even through the night if you want is to live. get goats milk, warm it, not too hot, use an eye dropper, warm the baby in your hands, put the dropper next to its mouth and feed it. i had to do this with mice for 3 weeks and i was so tierd i fell asleep during school! but it is totally worth it cause that baby will love you so much you guys will be inseperable. as it gets older you can start to feed it every 4, then 5 then 3 times a day.(and not the night) good luck!!!!



08/09/09  09:29pm


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