Here's one I have to keep!
Sorry for the bad photos, my camera's batteries are dead today. Had to use my cell phone!
I don't know how or when this little one became tail-free, or even if it was born that way. Today was the first day I examined it up close, and here is what I discovered:
http://sarah.digeratihost.com/images/babym.jpg
http://sarah.digeratihost.com/images/babym1.jpg
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Originally Posted by SarahMB
I love them like that and they even smell cool too. :D
I don't blame you.
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"My mamma was a rat...my daddy was a hamster. You gotta problem with that?" :P
Cute little thing! Is there any sort of scabbing or scarring at the nub? Maybe the tail got bit off? :confuzd:
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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog
I love them like that and they even smell cool too. :D
I don't blame you.
Hehe, cute little bugger, huh!
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Originally Posted by JLC
Is there any sort of scabbing or scarring at the nub? Maybe the tail got bit off? :confuzd:
It has a smooth white little nub, no scarring that I can tell. So I just don't know....could have been!
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Hehe, cute little bugger, huh!
Yea even worse when they fall sleep in your hand at that age. LOL
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Yea even worse when they fall sleep in your hand at that age. LOL
AWWWWWWWWWWW.
You are such a big softie! :giggle:
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You know, there are manx rats (it is genetic) they have problems regulating their body temps though (tend to overheat since the tail releases body heat) some have spinal deformities as well.. just a couple of things to keep in mind. He's real cute though!
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Awww, hopefully we won't have any issues like that. Oh, and this is a mouse, not a rat...not sure if that makes any difference!
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Maybe momma mouse got too busy chewing up afterbirths and nailed it's tail. We have a breeder female rat here, Stubby, that's tailess (not genetic, occurred at or right after her birth). She moves her stub tail around just like a regular tailed rat would.
Pic of Stubby when she was little....
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...odedFemale.jpg
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Awww, haha, that's too adorable!
Yeah, I'm figuring that's the same thing that happened to this one. Still too cute to feed off!
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Ah so it is.. I don't know if there are manx mice.. but I do know that mice parents seem more apt to nibble on their babies than rats.
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oh now isn't that just the cutest little thing! glad it's not in my house or we'd have another pet. i can just see my daughter... max the blind rat on one shoulder and stubbless the tailless mouse on the other :giggle:
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LOL Aleesha! This one will definitely be staying with us, everyone here just fell in love with it.
Ok, got new batteries today, so here are some better pictures, including one of it's little nub.
http://sarah.digeratihost.com/images/babym2.jpg
http://sarah.digeratihost.com/images/babym3.jpg
http://sarah.digeratihost.com/images/babym4.jpg
