I have to put him down . . .

[Regal Boids]

Well tomorrow is cleaning day but I decided to do it early and I noticed one of my breeder rats testicles is chewed out! Either he had an infection and it rotted out or one of the females attacked him or something because now he only has one and I can see inside of him. Will a vet put him down for free because I dont feel like hooking up a CO2 chamber and everything , and definetly dont want to knock him on the head or anything because he is huge and it will only hurt him not kill him. I am very sad about this but atleast I have another male. I would post pics but I dont have a camera anymore. I feel so bad . . .


-Andre

[frankykeno]

Do you have a chamber Andre or did you mean you'd have to go put one together to euthanize this male? A vet isn't likely to do work for free unless you have a vet you use regularily and they might do it for you for a reduced rate. I hope you have this injured male by himself now. It's best if you can either put him down yourself humanely or have a vet do it as soon as possible as that's got to be a painful thing for a male animal and there's no use letting him suffer needlessly.

[Regal Boids]

I do have a chamber but its not hooked up. any other advise is needed. I know he must be suffering but is still trying to get his job done with the ladies.

[frankykeno]

Andre get him out of the cage with those females! Why would you leave a badly injured animal in an active breeding environment? If how you are describing it is accurate he's got major testicular damage and shouldn't be allowed to attempt breeding. If you've got a chamber available to you then in my opinion, there's simply no excuse for leaving him to suffer if he's this damaged just because "you don't feel like" hooking up your chamber.

[Regal Boids]

I dont know where to get more tubbing. Do you think a farm store would?

[tigerlily]

Amen Jo.

Unless you have plans on having him treated by a vet, please put that poor animal out of it's misery. You are responsible for this creature, and you need to do something asap.

[Regal Boids]

how should I do it because I want to do it nopw but how with out tubing? He is a pretty big rat the biggest i have

[frankykeno]

You want me to tell you where to get tubing for your co2 chamber? Andre, if you have a chamber you either have tubing for it or you don't. If you don't then you should have long ago found out where to get the parts for it since your chamber won't work without all the parts it needs.

If you can't humanely euthanize this rat you're going to have to get your vet to do so. You cannot leave it to suffer. You cannot leave it in an active breeding environment even for one night, at least get it into a cage of it's own until it's put down.

[Regal Boids]

I am just saying because i tried walmart and everything. I will see if my mom has some big enough from are old fish tank. If I find some I will put him down righ away. He is currently seperated from the females.

[jknudson]

If you're just looking for airline tubing go down to your local pet shop the stuff is real cheap....put that poor rat out of his misery.