Cannibalism in rats?

[Bogertophis]

I wouldn’t say this happening 1/100 of other times I’ve done this would be getting lucky literally every week. I wouldn’t count out the fact that the business could’ve been saving money and they were underfed too begin with. I also no longer put water in with them, they knock it over every time and I come home with a mess to clean up after all the water (and rat waste) has soaked through the box


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They need a water bottle, the kind designed for rodents w/ ball bearings in the sipping tube- not a bowl, as you've found out. Or at the very least, some romaine lettuce & moist bread, something like that. It's cruel to leave them so long without food & water, even if "they're only feeders".