Found baby rats

[satomi325]

So this morning I got woken up by my dad yelling "OMG COME LOOK AT THIS!" So we went outside and next to our pond was 2 baby rats... One dead and one just laying there. (Don't worry, definitely not feeding them to the snakes) I looked around and found momma rat. Looked as if she had gotten stuck and died. Now all these little rat babies are emerging from their hole. Their eyes are open, but they don't look so well. I'm guessing they are starved. So what's the best thing to do? Just let die? I feel bad just leaving them in a bucket to die...

If they're left alone, they will die without their mother.
If you want to, you can take them to a wildlife center and they will probably raise them up. Or, you can nurse them with kitten formula in a little bottle found at any petstore and raise them up yourself.