Dead rat

[munding]

If you are only a generation or so from pet store rats then you'll lose more. Once you're more in control of the breedings, raising your own future breeders from healthy stock, you'll see less losses from just poor genetics and general "crap" rats. You'll still lose the occasional one, it happens but not nearly as often.

Rats will eat a dead cagemate. While it's gross to us, it's sensible to them. Free extra protein and they need to clean up the corpse before it stinks up the place. It's isn't them being nasty, just them being rats (even though it's nasty for us to deal with).

oh! i see. so the cagemates of the one that got eaten, i can still breed them? because i got the impression that if they would eat a 2 month old rat, theyd surely eat their pups.

thanks joanna