My Lovely Rats

Happy Birthday Boys!

I can’t believe it! The boys are one year old today! It doesn’t seem very long ago when they were whizzing wee fuzzies!
Maya and I made the birthday bucks a delicious cake each. Here are the rough ingredients:-

self raising flour
margarine
1 egg
a little milk
crushed walnuts
grated carrot
a few dried cranberries
sweetcorn

We also made little presents of treats wrapped up in paper.
My 3 daughters helped me deliver the ratty gifts, and here are the pictures of Shy-Shy, Pip, Rocky and Stripe’s first birthday:-

Birthday Boy cuddles with Hannah

If I look cute and adorable, will mum give me that cake?

Rocky demonstrates the lunge-grab-bolt-backwards manoeuvre

“He he he ha ha” (Stripe laughing in a Remy-like way)

“Sniff and look pitiful, maybe she’ll give us some more cake”

“This is intriguing and smells frightfully good!”

Rocky has silent food haze moment

“Please mum, can I have some more?”

Today my lovely rats have been mostly eating lovely birthday treats.

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Healthy Rats

My four boys have come through another battle with myco, and I’m doing all I can to build up their immune systems, by adding vitamin drops to their water and garlic powder to their dry food mix. The dry food is replaced every so often so that there is a constant supply in their cage. I use half Burgess Super Rat Excel and half my own mix which is based on the Shumanite diet (see links below). They get fresh food every day, including green leafy veg (not too much as this may cause diarrhoea) and I try to vary their fresh food every day. They can eat nearly everything we do, except that they mustn’t have too much protein (from nuts, eggs and meat) as this can cause skin problems. Too much fat or sugars in a rat’s diet can have the same effect as it does with us, the rat can become overweight and may suffer ailments associated with this including diabetes. The odd sprinkle of sunflower seeds between a few rats always goes down well though!

I’ve found the following sites to be very useful for information on many aspects of rat care:-

Ratz
Shumanite Rats
The Dapper Rat