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the vanilla essence worked a treat for me!
Im goign to let the naked get a little bigger, then try again near chritsmas time using the vanilla stuff.
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Re: rat facts
i have 10 rats!!! but 2 refuse to have companions as they try to really hurt other rats :S they are rescues though so who knows what happened to them before?

i have a million tips for rats!

dont keep them on saw dust, shavings, chippings or anything like that! I'm sure everyone knows that though!
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dont keep them on saw dust, shavings, chippings or anything like that! I'm sure everyone knows that though!
I don't have rats, I just wondered what the reason for the above is. Is it because of bumble foot? (Other than the dust thing with sawdust etc)
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no saw dust and shavings cause numerous respiratory problems in rats, they can aslo get mites from the wood. it's far to dusty for them
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Ah I see, thanks
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the vanilla essence worked a treat for me!

I have known that to work to and also freeranging together
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Re: rat facts
to introduce ours we used vanilla essence.. but they still ended up fighting. Best bet is to intro when they are both young lol. We had NO problems with our babies when we introduced others to their group but had a hell of a time trying to introduce our older ones.. it ended with a £91 gash across the top of the neck of Frank and Kai being beaten up rather badly. We gave it up as a bad job and the result is we have a group of 6 in one cage, a pair in one cage and 2 on their own unfortunately

They seem happy enough.. some rats just don't like other rats i guess haha
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