New Rattie Baby

Here are a few pictures of my new baby girl. She was brought in with her mother and siblings to the Waco Humane Society and was taken to a rescuer's house(who rescues birds of prey-owls, hawks, etc.). I contacted the rescuer and went to her house where she was keeping these rats in a 10-gallon tank OUTSIDE in the 99 DEGREE WEATHER! They had no shade and were very hot. I rescued this single girl because I really don't have anymore room at the moment, plus I don't want to jeopardize the health of my existing animals.

She is a Black(maybe charcoal) Capped Blazed Dumbo Rex, and is TO DIE FOR! :) In other words, she is adorable as all get out. She is going to get a fecal done tomorrow, but otherwise is in tip top shape. Haven't heard any sneezes at all and no discharge from eyes or nose.

Here she is:
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Look how big her ears are, LOL! :)
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Hope ya'll like them, she should integrate into the "zoo" quite nicely. :)

Congrats on the new addition! She's so sweet. :aww: Do you have an estimate on her age? Good luck with the fecal, and hopefully she'll be given a clean bill of health!

Oh she's cute Becky but I should have put money on this! LOL I seem to remember a conversation with you the night before you started at the Humane Society where I said "now don't go bringing everything home the first day or two!". :P

I wouldn't have been able to resist either.

Congrats on the new rattie family member!


~~Joanna~~

She is too cute. I love the dumbo ears. Congrats and I hope she has a good clean health check
Rusty

Christie, I was told by a breeder that she should be around 8 weeks old(I sent her pictures of the baby). She seems younger than that though, but maybe she's just tiny.

I hope she comes out clean too, and I will be checking everyone else while I'm at it. I doubt anyone else has anything, but you never know what they may have gotten into. Thanks for the compliments, I hope she turns out to be a fat, squishy, sweet girlie rat :) She's a pig about eating that's for sure.

:Aww: She's just a baby then. I was thinking a little older, but I was obviously wrong. She just seemed bigger in the pics. I'm sure you'll have your fat, squishy, sweet girl in no time atall! (I love your description!) I'm glad to hear she's eating well, and make sure to post pics when she's all squishy!!! :D

Oh I forgot to ask...what did you name her?


~~Joanna~~

I think I'm going to name her Amelia after Amelia Earhardt, since her ears are big enough to fly. :)

I think that's a perfect name for her!



~~Jo~~

Those are some durned big ears!
I would estimate her age around 5-6 weeks. I have some that are 7 weeks now, and they seem to be a bit larger than her.

Here's a good update on everyone :)

None of the girls had any parasites, and neither did Sneezy. The new girls that I got a little more than a month ago didn't have anything either. The new beebee had absolutely nothing, and I am very happy. Such exciting fecals... :rolleyes: I should have just done one on everyone(with everyone being all of the animals in my house), and I might have found a little something, LoL. Sorry, that's the vet tech in me.

That's wonderful news!!! :clap: Of course it's kinda boring looking at the slide. Nothing, nothing, oh.... more nothing. You can hope for a nice case of coccidia tomorrow!! ;)

LoL, or a nice case of tapes... Nummay!


If you are easily grossed out, DON'T read the remaining post... :)



I worked at the animal shelter here, and a few days ago we dewormed a puppy with the normal pyrantel pamoate dewormer we have. About a day later, I was cleaning out the kennels in the afternoon and, lo and behold, what did I find. I thought the puppy had swallowed a piece of string, but realized that he couldn't have gotten it anywhere since he is in a run. I looked a little closer and it was a massive load of adult roundworms.... Bleh! At least they weren't still alive. Gave me the willies, LoL.

Oh that IS pretty gross. Makes you think twice before having spagetti for dinner :bleh: I'm so proud you didn't clean em up and put them in some formaldehyde! ;) :D lol

I DID think about it... I said to myself, "Hey! The school might want these, they are nice and fresh and should preserve well..." How much of a DORK am I?? LOL! It's so sad...

I should have brought the collander so I could have washed them off! Ok, I know, I'm gross. :)

I did that once while working as a vet tech. The formaldehyde was under the sink, and there's always an extra jar laying around. You never know when something like that will come in handy. If it makes you feel any better, it definitely would've crossed my mind too!

My stepsister just graduated from vet school and she had a horses head and legs buried so she could get the bones. They weren't quite ready to come out of the ground when she graduated so they are now in my parents backyard. They drove like 4 hours with half decomposed horse parts in their trunk! Now there's family dedication! LOL!