He's so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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12-11-2008 02:45 PM #16Veganforlife Guest
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12-12-2008 01:50 PM #17
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Okay, Jenna, not joking...you really should do an e-book of rat care and health the raw vegan way! Any chance you have time and are ambitious? I'd be the first in line! I saw the pinkies last night and they'll be ready in about a month I think. I can't wait to have one, but other than what I've read online, I really don't know what I'm doing, and I definitely don't know what foods to give vs what they shouldn't eat (other than the obvious like chocolate).
Pretty please??!!"Nature itself is the best physician."
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!!!! Fantastic idea! I just might :) Let's see if dbf can help me
Originally Posted by Raene
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Originally Posted by Veganforlife
Awww Thank you! He is my pride and joy!
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12-12-2008 02:09 PM #20
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Oops, I didn't mean one, I meant two. My daughter wants to name hers Muffin (she's 4, lol...I know, it's an overused name) and I'm planning on naming mine Chia. :) Yay, I'll pre-order a book if you want!!
"Nature itself is the best physician."
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Originally Posted by Raene
Uhhhhhdorable! Chia and Muffin are great names! Muffin's not overused at all.
My dbf and I just got a baby tan hooded, named her Eleanor :) Her and Weetzie don't get along, though, which is a bummer, so they're in separate cages. When Weetzie is gone(coming up soon
), we're going to breed Eleanor with a blue male ! Squeal! I'm so excited!
You're going to LOVE your ratties! It's very sad that more people don't like rats, they make such great pets! Lol, I was telling a patient at work that my bf and I have two rats and he FREAKED! This middle aged man was like: "You mean, you're wearing that cute dress with those cute boots and you're so nice and you have a pet RAT?!" LOL! I was like "my rats are delicate little ladies!"
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12-14-2008 11:02 AM #22
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I feed my mice and ratties flax/sesame/chia/sunflower crackers. i dehydrate them up and then pop them into a ziploc baggie and gift them one a day. They really go crazy over them!!!
I also gift my mice lots of seeds... they seem to do much better on seeds in my experience. They also love nut butters - when they get this treat - I spread it on a flax cracker and then put another on top so their shavings etc don't get stuck in the butters LOL
One way to deal with the urine smell of mice and ratties... you can add a few drops of vanilla extract into their water bottle. It greatly reduces the odours - esp. for the males.
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12-14-2008 05:14 PM #23
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awww Roland cheddarbits is so cute! Thought you might like this hehe Originally Posted by JennaBoBenna
Here's my little guy, Roland Cheddarbits ( i know, i know, but he is cheese colored! we call him Pig anyway :) )
He is such a little squeaker, he sounds like a bird!! He loves to "popcorn" (flip his feet up in the air), jump on top of his cardboard house, and he lovvvves strawberries and wheatgrass from my garden. His favorite raw treats are zucchini blossoms and grass from my yard :)
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12-15-2008 10:08 PM #24
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Lucky little rats!!!
LIVE SIMPLY that others might SIMPLY LIVE........Mahatma Gandhi
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Inca, that video was sooo cute! I loved it! haha
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Your rats are cute! I don't really like rats, but yours are very Disney-like.
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12-20-2008 07:07 AM #27
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I got my cage and set it up...it's sitting here empty as I wait for the babies to grow big enough to leave their mom. We went to see them a few days ago and they are just starting to get their fur. I'm so excited!
Did you slowly transition yours to raw or just do it right away? These are just being fed those square things at the moment...no fresh food at all."Nature itself is the best physician."
Hippocrates
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How exciting! I love when ratties start getting their fur! it's so interesting to see the different patterns emerge! Originally Posted by Raene
Let's seee....hm....when my rats were old enough to start eating solids, they just started going for the food I had out for IttyBitty(mama rat). I only fed her raw (except for some egg sometimes) so they started out on raw!
here are some of the babies at about 3-4 weeks munching on baby spinach leaves! (this picture is from IttyBitty's litter in December 2006)
as for green stuff, Raene, I usually just feed my animals chlorella tablets or greens in the form of leaves. sometimes they'll get smoothie, but not always. it's hard to feed them smoothies because if you put a bowl full of something in a rat cage, all they will do is step on it and fling the contents everywhere! lol...
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thanks RawPaw!! :) Originally Posted by RawPaw
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Here's a sample for what we feed Eleanor and Margot(new baby!) [rats]
3 or 4 spinach leaves
2 or 3 almonds, walnuts, pecans, or variety
small amount of raw oats(from Alissa's store)
one wet baby carrot rolled in chia seeds (or one tsp of chia gel with almond milk, they like this better!)
sprigs of parsley
fresh water
2 or 3 blueberries
This usually lasts about 2 days (or so I can tell..they like to hoard and hide their food!)
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