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Thursday, June 01, 2006We have him out and cuddle him and give him as much TLC as we can. Fingers crossed he'll get stronger and stay with us.
On Bank Holiday Monday silly Roland fell off his shelf and hurt his foot - there were panics all round, and we tried to get to the emergency vets, but no-one could be bothered to treat a little rat on a Bank Holiday evening (we got it sorted in the end. Thankfully, Roland is fine now.
Little Iota - a real sweetheart who has bad teeth - is doing really well. She had her teeth trimmed yesterday and came out of the anaesthetic OK. Three months time she will need her first big op, so we are building her up as she is so little.
We have put a young baby girl (named Bluebell) in with Iota and also Bluebell 's Mum (we think it's her mum) called Sasha. Sasha was quite poorly when she came in to another recsue last week - they thought she'd die - but she is getting much better.
Sasha is a skanky, manky, skinny, brown hooded rat with appalling bad breath and narcoplepsy, about 14 weeks old, bless her. Her and dozens of other animals had been severely neglected by their owner befoe they were removed from him.
She has an admirer already - Oscar, a big squishy rat who lives on his own and likes to think he is King Rat. It is so funny. When Sasha moves around the cage, he perks up and presses his face against the bars and looks all soppy across the room at her. It is so sweet.
Oscar recently lost his brother and now doesn't want other males around. It is fine as the ladies are in the room with him so he has lots of company and he oogles the skanky poor mum so he is well occupied, as well as being smothered with love by us all the time. I adore him, he is such a character!
Today Floss, the finger breaker, climbed straight out on to my arm as I was feeding. That is so rewarding. But even the buggers who bite until the end I still love.
Posted by : Jason Hulott @ Thursday, June 01, 2006
Henry Rat
Monday, May 29, 2006We have had several 'phone calls from people needing advice on what to do as there rat was so ill. It's very hard to help at the end of the phone and all you can do is get them to go to their vet straight away and hope that their vet is good with rat healthcare.
We've also taken in five rats - one, a tiny little girl who bit her owner's finger and broke it. She's been with us 6 days and we can pick her up and cuddle her, which is good news. Her owner was going to have the little girl put to sleep due to her 'aggression'.
We are inundated with rats at the moment, very few of who can be rehomed. They have spilled over in to our lounge and even our bedroom! The sound of rats eating and playing at 2am isn't conducive to a good nights' sleep!
Finally, one of permanent residents - Henry - had a stroke on Friday. We rushed him to the vets and he was given a steroid injection. Henry is still with us but is so obviously brain damaged.
He is 20 months old and the sweetest, gentlest, kindliest rat we've ever had at the rescue.
Now his head is tilted and while he isn't losing his footing as much as he did Friday - so fingers crossed that he may be stabilising which would be a first for us as he normally, once a rat has a stroke, they'll get worse, have another stroke and then need to be put to sleep - we feel that our Henry has 'gone'. He seems happy in himself and is eating and drinking, but you look at his little face and cannot see 'Henry' in there if you understand what I mean?
Posted by : Jason Hulott @ Monday, May 29, 2006
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