Well, when Anubis was young (under a year) he took a really bad rat bite. He struck and the rat managed to bite deeply into his neck, about an inch down from his head. I'm lucky it was only in the muscle. I left the wound alone mostly and it healed up on its own.




A few months ago, Ceasar was in his cage with a live rat (he is the only one I can't switch to f/t). I was sitting across the room and I hear a thump. I peek into the cage and see the rat is fine but there is some blood in the cage. I put the rat back into the rat cage and looked Ceasar over but I can't find where the couple of drops of blood came from. Fast forward a couple of days and I notice what is wrong, the very tip of his tail had been nearly cut off and was dead. Apparently, he struck the rat because it bit him . I removed the dead tip and proceeded to clean the wound for several days until I was sure it was infection free and I put neo on it until it closed it up.

It is healing nicely now. I can't believe I didn't notice it at first, I thought maybe the rat had been defensively struck and bled a little.