Ever heard of anything like this?

If she's not hurting herself, or you can get her somewhere where she can't, you can keep her longer, just watch for it to get worse. Just try not to breed her, because who knows if its hereditary.


I'm still not sure if it's a physical problem or not.

Nope. They live in tubs. I feed Mazuri, the same bag I've been feeding. I feed them the occasional fruit/veggie or scrambled eggs that I eat. They get fresh water and kiln dried pin shavings every week. They are in my room and I don't use any cleaning supplies in there besides Clorox wipes. The bags of bedding and food are also in my room.

Rhas- I put her down last night. With the seizure I saw there was no way I was going to wait and have her go through another one. It was really bad.

I'm sorry for the loss Marissa. She was a good girl. :(

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This is one reason I just can't keep rats any more. I have never had a rat die of old age. :/
I'm sorry this happened to you.

I've only known one rat personally, who ever died of old age, and he died at the ripe of age of 5.

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She's either really happy or really scared. Have you tried handling her after/during one of these episodes? Her reaction to you attempting to handle her should show whether she's happy or scared. If she runs from your hand or bites, she's probably scared, if she plays or lets you handle her she's probably just getting over-excited.

If her tail is twitching, mice and rats do this when they are -very- upset. She might be having a problem with another rat in the cage with her, and you just don't see it happening. Or maybe there's a wild rat or mouse in the house, that she sees and you don't. Try separating her and see if the problem subsides. If she has a problem with her cagemates, that hould fix it. If she's just an aggressive rat, then she'll probably stay that way and keep acting out.


I just recently had to put a mouse down, who was doing this same thing. He was virtually unhandleable, and I thought it was because he was alone, and just on guard all the time from being a single mouse in a cage . So I moved him in with my elderly female ASFs and he was fine, until I cleaned the cage. Then he immediately started violently attacking the ASFs. I decided that was the last straw, because nobody is going to want a mouse for breeding, or a pet, that is that mean/scared/defensive. :/

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Nope, not the case. I kept mice for years (regular pet store mice that I bred) and male mice are perfectly happy on their own, or with females. It should be noted that if they're kept with other males, they'll attack them. That's just territorial instinct. All my males (the ones I kept as breeders anyway) were very sweet and handleable. I noticed a variety of personality in the babies however, and had several that were being extremely aggressive that ended up being snake food. I handled all my mice frequently as soon as they were old enough. I kept only the ones who had good personalities as future breeders. Within a few generations I had no further problems with super-aggressive mice.