Bathing rodents.

[stangs13]

Should you bath your rodents? Does it make a difference? Will it effect there smell? I don't want my male to be introduced after a bathing, and smell like a new rat, and be attacked. Just another dumb question! Oh yeah... who does bath and how often?

[LadyOhh]

I did it once.. Made it smell worse.. Kinda like wet dog. But like wet rodent.. WAY WORSE than wet dog.

Never did it again...

[stangs13]

I did it once.. Made it smell worse.. Kinda like wet dog. But like wet rodent.. WAY WORSE than wet dog.

Never did it again...

Nasty. Wet rodent doesn't sound like it smells good.

[littleindiangirl]

Should you bath your rodents? Does it make a difference? Will it effect there smell? I don't want my male to be introduced after a bathing, and smell like a new rat, and be attacked. Just another dumb question! Oh yeah... who does bath and how often?

In general you don't have to. I do choose to wash my boys once in a while, but they are also the ones that live in my living room. If I choose to bathe my breeder males, it's for when they are really dirty.

[MeMe]

I did it once.. Made it smell worse.. Kinda like wet dog. But like wet rodent.. WAY WORSE than wet dog.

Never did it again...

I can imagine! Ewww!

[Schlyne]

Nasty. Wet rodent doesn't sound like it smells good.

From my experience with wet F/T, it doesn't.

It gets bad when you can almost taste it after feeding for a few hours....

[stangs13]

From my experience with wet F/T, it doesn't.

It gets bad when you can almost taste it after feeding for a few hours....

I dont think it will be the same. The frozen ones are nasty anyway( I feed wet ft) but a wet live rodent that is not dead?

[Schlyne]

I dont think it will be the same. The frozen ones are nasty anyway( I feed wet ft) but a wet live rodent that is not dead?

I wouldn't expect it to be anywhere near as bad. However, I suppose it would change depending on what you feed them.

[Mikkla]

I bought some new breeders and they smelled like death! So I gave them a bath and it got so mutch better! Okey, wet rodent is way worse than wet dog, but I got rid of the urinesmell they had before.

[SatanicIntention]

I bathe my rats when they need it. I use either Dawn or that lavender Johnson's baby shampoo. Also use a soft bristled toothbrush to scrub their back and tail. Gets the buck grease off the boys if they have it(rarity) and gets their tails really clean.